Owen D. Jones holds the Weaver Chair in Law, Brain, and Behavior at Vanderbilt University, where he is both Professor of Law and Professor of Biological Sciences. Published extensively in leading legal and scientific venues, he coauthored the first coursebook on Law & Neuroscience, directs the Weaver Family Program in Law, Brain Sciences, and Behavior, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Jones previously served as Co-Director and then Director of the MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Project, and subsequently designed and directs the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Jeffrey D. Schall was E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University before moving to York University in 2021, where he is Professor of Biology and an active member of the interdisciplinary initiative Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed publications appearing in leading science and neuroscience journals, and coauthored the first coursebook on Law & Neuroscience.
He is a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as a Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Project. Francis X. Shen is a Faculty Member at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical and the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, a Harvard University Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School, and Chief Innovation Officer at the MGH Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. Dr. Shen has published widely on neurolaw, including as coauthor of the first coursebook on Law & Neuroscience, and is a Principal Investigator on multiple NIH BRAIN Initiative grants. He also leads the Dana Foundation Career Network in Neuroscience and Society and is a Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Morris B.
Hoffman was a district judge in the Second Judicial District, State of Colorado, from 1991 to 2021. He has published more than 30 law review articles, co-authored more than a dozen science papers, written several op-eds in national newspapers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and in 2014 authored The Punisher's Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury. He is a Research Fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, as well as a Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and Society of Experimental Psychologists. Anthony D. Wagner is a Lucie Stern Professor in the Department of Psychology and a deputy director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed publications appearing in leading science and neuroscience journals. Professor Wagner is a Reviewing Editor at Cerebral Cortex and Cerebral Cortex Communications, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, and Society of Experimental Psychologists. He is a Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.