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Oliver R. Goodenough

Professor of Law

JD, University of Pennsylvania, 1978;
BA, Harvard University, 1975

Phone: (802) 831-1231
Email: ogoodenough@vermontlaw.edu

Presentations

Selected Presentations and Conferences

"Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling, and Experimental Design for Neurolaw and Property," 3rd Annual Property and Psychology Roundtable Workshop, Syracuse University College of Law, June 16, 2011

"Creating and Consuming Scholarship in the Age of Information Overload," Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, June 2, 2011

"Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Multiple Stages, Multiple Challenges" at Innovation and Economic Growth: Exploring the Origins and Effects of Innovative Behavior, Gruter Institute Annual Conference, Squaw Valley, CA, May 25-27, 2011

"Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: an MEM Specialty," MEM Reunion Weekend Talk,Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, May 7, 2011, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKAzQyT5xU

"Introduction to Neuroscience and its Application to Law," Mississippi Trial & Appellate Judges Spring Conference, Jackson Marriott - Jackson, MS April 28, 2011

"Cloud Computing Presents Hard Problems" a panel presentation at NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III, Gaithrsburg, MD, April 7, 2011, available at http://www.ebmcdn.net/niststream/flash/Cloud11/cloud11-playlist.html at minute 34:55.

Participant and discussion leader, Educating the Digital Lawyer, A workshop hosted by The Columbia Law School Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic, Jerome Greene Annex and Faculty House, New York, New York, April 14, 2011

Presenter of "Neuroscience and the Ethics of Legal Practice" and panel moderator of "Neuroscience and Decision Making" and "Brains, Behavior and Addiction: Culpability and Punishment," at Law and the Brain, a conference of Public Information Resources, Inc., New York, New York, March 16, 2011

"A Decade of Neurolaw - Where Has it Brought Us?" at the 12th Scholarship Conference of The Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, February 11, 2011

Panelist, "Synthetic Biology Meets the Law," Program of the Biolaw Section, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, San Francisco, California, January 5, 2011.

"A Decade of Neurolaw - Where Has it Brought Us?", at The Brain Sciences in the Courtroom, a Symposium of the Mercer Law Review, the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Mercer, Georgia, October 22, 2010

"Financial Reform and Innovation" at Governance as an Open Platform, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Law Lab, in collaboration with O'Reilly Media, Inc., Washington, D.C., September 8-9, 2010

"Digital Incorporation: Firm Formation in the Virtual World" at the Kauffman Summer Legal Institute, Dana Point, California, July 9, 2010

Co-Organizer and presenter at Seminar on Neuroscience & Criminal Behavior for Chief U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Officers and Substance Abuse/Mental Health Specialists, presented by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and the Federal Judicial Center, Philadelphia, PA, June 12-13 2010

Organizer and presenter at a Workshop on Neuroscience and Law, a training session for the New Hampshire U.S. Attorneys office,, cosponsored by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project, and the Dartmouth College Ethics Institute, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 19, 2010.

"The Future of Law in a Digital Age," A Presentation for Law Day 2010, Hanscom Air Force Base, Concord, Massachusetts, April 30, 2010

"Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Approaches to Law: Games, Brains and Mechanism Design," at Evolutionary Approaches to Comparative Law: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives, Joint Expert Seminar, sponsored by the Ghent University Department of Legal Theory and Legal History and the Tilburg University Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law, Ghent, Belgium, April 23-24, 2010

Co-Organizer and presenter of "Reflections on the Use of Biology in the Study of Cooperation" at Moral Biology, hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, at Harvard Law School, in collaboration with the University-Wide Program on Ethics and Health, The Project on Law and Mind Sciences, the Harvard Provost's Office, the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15-16, 2010

"Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling and Experimental Design in Neurolaw" an ESI/IFREE Lecture, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University, Orange, California, February 19, 2010

"Future of Venture Finance: Reflections on Short-Term Fixes and a Possible Full-Scale Redesign," at The Future of Venture Finance, a conference organized by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Coconut Grove, Florida, January 14-15, 2010

"Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling and Experimental Design in Neurolaw" at CELS 2009, 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 2009

"Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions" with John Clippinger at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, October 5, 2009, available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/10/lawlab

Co-Organizer and presenter of Introduction to Neuroscience and Law, at Law, Neuroscience and Mental Health, a Legislative Workshop, co sponsored by the Vermont Law School and the University of Vermont, South Royalton, Vermont, October 2, 2009

"If Hume Knew Neuroscience: A Functional Explanation for the Apparent Separation of 'Is' and 'Ought'," at Current Legal Issues Colloquium: Law & Neuroscience, University College London, July 6, 2009

"Fact Finding: Designing a Judicial Training Program - Bias, Eyewitness Testimony, and Neuroscience," presented with Sandra Oxner, Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 18, 2009

Co-Organizer and presenter, Seminar on Law and Neuroscience, co-sponsored by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the National Judicial College, and the Vanderbilt University Law School, a MacArthur Project Outreach Program, Nashville, Tennessee, June 18-19, 2009

Co-Organizer and session chair, Context and the Evolution of Mechanisms for Solving Collective Action, at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 30 - May 3, 2009

Co-Organizer, moderator, and presenter at Neuroscience for Federal Judges" a Law and Neuroscience Project Education and Outreach Program event co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, California, June 5-6, 2008,

"Biotechnology and the Future of Intellectual Property: A Proposition, Three Challenges, a High-Tech Approach and a Low-Tech Suggestion," presented at The Future of Intellectual Property, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 2001.

"Biotechnology and the Future of Intellectual Property: A Proposition, Three Challenges, a High-Tech Approach and a Low-Tech Suggestion," presented at The Future of Intellectual Property, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 2001.

"Locating the Sense of Justice in the Brain," presented at the Institut fur Anthropologie, Campus Charite Mitte, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2001.

"Neuroscience and the Law: The Architecture of Human Intelligence Shapes How We Make and Apply Law," Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 2000.

"Cultural Evolution: Getting Beyond the Memetics Metaphors," a presentation to the Sub-department of Animal Behavior, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1999.

"Biology, Behavior, and the Criminal Law," faculty adviser and panelist, Vermont Law Review symposium, 1997.

"Law in a Modular Mind," Law and Biology seminar for federal judges, Dartmouth College, 1996.

"Privacy and Publicity," Intellectual Property Institute, London, 1996.

"Courtroom Drama: The Law Applicable to Fact-Based Film, Television and Theater," University of Birmingham, 1996.

"Law in a Modular Mind," Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 1996.

"The Opportunity of New Technologies," East/West Producers Seminar, Czech Republic, 1994.

"The Importance of Intellectual Property Law in International Relations," Ankara, Turkey, 1993.

"Understanding the United States Motion Picture Industry," Moscow, Russia, 1990.