Jonathan Brodie, M.D./Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Brodie, PhD-MD, is the Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.  Dr. Brodie received his bachelor of science in chemistry as a Ford Foundation Scholar, as well as his Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He was a National Institute of Health postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, as well as a tenured Professor of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine at SUNY at Buffalo.  He then received his medical degree and completed his residency in psychiatry at NYU/Bellevue Medical Center.  After completing his residency in 1978, he joined the Medical Center’s faculty. 

Dr. Brodie is a member of the Promotions and Tenure Committee of the NYU School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the General Clinical Research Center and the Protocol Review Committee of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) of the Nathan Kline Institute. He is a reviewer for various neuroimaging and psychiatric journals, and serves as an ad hoc member of several NIH review committees.  For 15 years, he was the NYU Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory/NYUSOM collaboration investigating the use of positron emitters and PET scans in neuroscience and psychiatry.  In addition, Dr. Brodie serves as a psychopharmacology instructor to residents in Psychiatry.  As a clinician, he treats patients in general issues of adult psychiatry including anxiety and depression. Dr. Brodie also has published his research in numerous medical and psychiatric journals.  His research interests include functional neuroimaging of pharmacological activity and the relationship of neural plasticity to the emergence of psychopathology.



Jane Campbell Moriarty, J.D.

Jane Moriarty has been a Professor of Law at the University of Akron, School of Law, since 1997, teaching Evidence, Expert Evidence, Employment Discrimination and Professional Responsibility. She was previously a Visiting Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In 2009, Professor Moriarty served as a program chair for the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science & Law Symposium, “Does Forensic Science Need Fixing?” at Duquesne University.  Today, she continues to serve as a consultant to the Institute. In Fall, 2008, she chaired the Neuroscience, Law and Government Symposium held at The University of Akron.

Professor Moriarty received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Boston College, where she was awarded the Bapst Philosophy Medal. She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Boston College Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal. Before joining the Akron Law faculty, Professor Moriarty practiced law in Boston and Pittsburgh, and clerked for The Honorable Ralph J. Cappy, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Professor Moriarty has authored numerous publications, including Expert and Scientific Evidence: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, with Professor John M. Conley) and “Misconvictions,” Science and the Ministers of Justice, 86 Nebraska Law Review 1 (2007). She was the recipient of the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award in 2002 and in 2008, and has received awards from both the faculty and alumni for her scholarship. Professor Moriarty is currently working on a book for NYU Press, entitled MISCONVICTIONS: WHEN LAW AND SCIENCE COLLIDE, (forthcoming 2011), and recently published Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts 26 Behav. Sci. & L. 26 (2008).

Owen Jones, J.D.

Owen D. Jones holds the New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University, where he is also Professor of Biological Sciences.  In addition, he presently serves as Director of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project.  Jones is a leading scholar on issues at the intersection of law and behavioral biology.  His current empirical research uses brain-imaging (fMRI), primatology, and behavioral economics to learn more about how the brain's varied operations affect behaviors relevant to law. Most recently, he and colleagues at Vanderbilt discovered the brain activity underlying decisions of whether to punish someone and, if so, how much.

Jones is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School.  Before joining the legal academy, Jones clerked for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and practiced law with the D.C. law firm Covington & Burling.  Jones served from 2007 to 2010 as Co-Director of a MacArthur Foundation research network on legal decision making, which explored the relevance of neuroscience to criminal law. He also is Director and former President of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (S.E.A.L.), an international interdisciplinary scholarly organization whose members focus on issues at the intersection of law, biology, and behavior.

Jones has for several years co-taught a course titled “Law and the Brain,” which is also the title of the 32-chapter coursebook he is preparing -- along with co-authors Dr. Jeffrey Schall, a neuroscientist, and Dr. Francis Shen, a J.D./Ph.D. Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt.

Website: http://law.vanderbilt.edu/jones

Publications: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=142209

Jim Castle

Mr. Castle is a practicing attorney in the Denver area who specializes in criminal defense. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Bucknell University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver, where he was a Barristers Cup Fellow. Mr. Castle is the former President of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar and has received numerous awards honoring his contribution to the legal field, including the Denver Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyer of the Year Award.

As a criminal defense attorney, Mr. Castle has handled over 130 jury trials and over 50 first degree murder trials. Notably, he successfully defended the People v. Donta Page capital case, wherein the court admitted defense-tendered PET scan evidence for the first time ever. Mr. Castle was lead counsel for Momcilo Perisic, Chief of Staff for the Army of Yugoslavia, in the second largest international criminal prosecution in history. He is a nationally recognized expert in criminal defense, and has been a guest-commentator for CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and the New York Times. Mr. Castle has published and lectured on a wide range of criminal law-related topics, including the intersection of criminal law and mental health.



Dr. James H. Fallon

Dr. James Fallon is a professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine, where he has served as Chairman of the University Faculty and Chair and President of the School of Medicine Faculty. Dr. Fallon received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, followed by a Masters Degree in Psychology and Psychophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He concluded Ph.D. studies in Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, as well as postdoctoral training in Chemical Neuroanatomy at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Fallon is a Sloan Scholar, Senior Fulbright Fellow, National Institutes of Health Career Development Awardee, as well as a recipient of a variety of honorary degrees and awards.

Among his many significant contributions to neuroscience, Dr. Fallon has lectured and written on topics such as the law and the brain, consciousness, and the brain of the psychopathic murderer. Additionally, he is a pioneer in the study of the distribution of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and endorphins in the brain. Dr. Fallon has written extensively on schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and nicotine and cocaine addiction.

He has appeared on numerous documentaries, radio, and TV shows. From 2007-2009, he appeared on the History Channel series on science and technology, CNN, PBS, BBC, and ABC for his work on stem cells, growth factors, psychopathology, tissue engineering, smart prostheses, schizophrenia, and human and animal behavior and disease. In 2009, he appeared as himself on the CBS crime drama series Criminal Minds, where the show explored his theory of trans-generational violence in areas of the world that experience continuous bouts of terrorism, war, and violence. In a related story, Dr. Fallon and his family underwent functional brain imaging and genetic analyses for potential violence-related brain and genetic patterns.