Event Description
Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on a sound understanding of the multiple causes of human behavior. The better that understanding, the better law can achieve social goals with legal tools. In this lecture, Prof. Jones will argue that many long-held beliefs about where behavior comes from are rapidly becoming obsolete as a consequence of developments in the various fields constituting behavioral biology. By helping to refine law's understandings of behavior's causes, he will argue, behavioral biology can help to improve law's effectiveness and efficiency.
Listen to Professor Jones' interview on Minnesota Public Radio
Commentators
David W. Stephens, PhD
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Susan M. Wolf, JD
Professor of Law and Medicine
Chair of Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
University of Minnesota