HLS Project on Law and Mind Sciences to host annual conference
March 5, 2008
On March 8, the Harvard Law School Project on Law and Mind Sciences will host its second annual conference focusing on the intersection of psychology and law. At this year’s conference, entitled “Ideology, Psychology, and Law,” leading social scientists will join law professors in discussing the role of ideology in the law.
"Just bringing such a distinguished group of mind scientists and legal scholars into the same room constitutes an important milestone in the fast-growing relationship between the fields," said HLS Professor Jon Hanson, co-founder of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences. "It will be a great privilege and treat to hear them discuss the latest research regarding the sources and consequences of ideology and what that research might mean for how we understand law and lawmaking."
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to hear from social psychologists and legal scholars throughout the course of several discussion sessions. After brief presentations by the psychologists, the legal scholars will comment and lead discussion about how the social psychology research might impact legal policy. HLS Professors Yochai Benkler '94, Elizabeth Warren, Joseph Singer '81, and Visiting Professor Jennifer Brown will participate.
Launched last year, the Project on Law and Mind Sciences seeks to understand the implications of social psychology and other mind sciences for law, policymaking, and legal theory. The Project has a blog, called The Situationist, which serves as a forum for scholars to discuss the intersection of law and mind sciences.
For more information or to register for the conference, visit the conference website.