Past Keynote Speakers

2016

Owen D. Jones

New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law
Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on the Law and Neuroscience

Vanderbilt University
[website]

Law and Behavior: Past, Present, and Future

2016

Brian Skyrms

Distinguished Professor of Logic
and Philosophy of Science and Economics
University of California, Irvine

Professor of Philosophy
Stanford University
[website]

Evolution, Norms and the Social Contract

2014		Michael S. Moore Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair Professor of Law and Philosophy Co-Director of Program in Law and Philosophy University of Illinois [website] The Neuroscience of Volitional Excuse
2014		Owen D. Jones New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law Professor of Biological Sciences Director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on the Law and Neuroscience Vanderbilt University [website] Neuroscientific Perspective on the Role of (and Control of) Emotions during Punishment Decisions
2014		Gene Robinson Swanlund Chair of Entomology Director of Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois [website] From Me to We: Searching for the Genetic Roots of Sociality
2014		Robin Bradley Kar President, SEAL Professor of Law and Philosophy University of Illinois [website] Western Legal Prehistory: On the Early Root of Large-Scale Human Social Complexity
2014		Thomas Anastasio Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Beckman Institute, University of Illinois [website] When Long Term Memory (for Social and Legal Values) is Willing but Short Term Memory is Weak
2013		Geoffrey Miller Associate Professor of Psychology University of New Mexico [website] Legal Dilemmas in 21st Century Mating Markets: Honest Signaling, Informed Sexual Consent, and Relationship Externalities
2013		David Sloan Wilson Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology SUNY Binghamton University [website] Catalyzing Acceptance of Evolution as a General Theoretical Framework for Economics, Business, and Law
2012		Melvin Konner Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of AnthropologyEmory University [website]The Science of Human Nature: Dark History. Bright Future?
2010		Alfred Mele William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy Florida State University [website] Free Will and Neuroscience
2009		Frans B. M. de Waal Director, Living Links Center C.H Candler Professor of Psychology Emory University [website] Is Man a Wolf to Man? – Morality and the Social Behavior of our Fellow Primates
2007		Abigail A. Baird Assistant Professor of Psychology Vassar College [website] The Psychology of Adolescence
2003		Helen E. Fisher Visiting Research Professor Rutgers University [website] Lust, Romance, Attachment: The Brain Chemistry of the Three Primary Mating Emotions and Their Impact on Crime and Punishment
2002		Bobbi S. Low Professor of Resource Ecology University of Michigan [website] Sex, Power, and Resources: How Our Evolutionary Past Haunts Our Ecological Future
2002		Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Harvard University [website] The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine
2000		David Buss Professor of Psychology University of Texas at Austin [website] Psychology, Evolution, and Human Behavior
1999		Nancy Segal Professor of Psychology and Director of the Twin Studies CenterCalifornia State University, Fullerton (CSUF) [website]Twin Research Perspectives on Behavioral, Legal and Societal Issues
1998		Neil Malamuth Professor of Communication, Psychology and Women’s Studies University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) [website] An Evolutionary-based Model of the Characteristics of Sexually Coercive Men: Integrating Multiple Levels of Analysis