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Mission

The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior puts the most accurate and actionable neuroscience in the hands of judges, lawyers, policymakers and journalists—people who shape the standards and practices of our legal system and affect its impact on people’s lives. We work to make the legal system more effective and more just for all those affected by the law.

Katherine M. Clark is an American politician representing Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district in the United States Congress where she serves as Assistant Speaker in the House of Representatives. She is a resident of Melrose, Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. She was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011, and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013. Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature, she was an attorney and a member of the Melrose School Committee. Clark won the 2013 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to succeed Ed Markey in Massachusetts’s 5th district.