Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Legal Policy?

Laurence Steinberg, JD, speaks to the lecture crowd. A panel discussion followed.

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Central Time

Coffman Memorial Union Theater

Event Description

Studies of adolescent brain development have influenced debates on issues such as the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty and whether minors should be permitted to obtain an abortion without parental consent. Join adolescent development scholar Laurence Steinberg, PhD, as he examines whether burgeoning research on adolescent brain development should influence legal policy.

1.5 hours of standard CLE credit approved. Please reference #172862.

Commentators

Susanna Blumenthal, JD, PhD, Associate Professor of Law and History, University of Minnesota
A. David Redish, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

Moderators

Michael Georgieff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Psychology
Steve Kelley, JD, Senior Fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Akshay Rao, PhD, Professor, Carlson School of Management

Speaker Biography

Laurence Steinberg, JD, is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. He was educated at Vassar College, where he graduated with a degree in Psychology in 1974, and at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1977.

Prof. Steinberg is past-president of the Developmental Psychology division of the American Psychological Association and a former resident of the Society for Research on Adolescence. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, and was Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent and Juvenile Justice, and is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

Prof. Steinberg has been the recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Society for Research on Adolescence and the American Psychological Association and teaching awards from the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, and Temple University.