The BSNNP is happy to have Judith Edersheim JD, MD and Robert Kinscherff PhD, JD of The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior presenting a lecture entitled:
“Neuroscience in the Service of Justice”.
Thurs. February 10th, 2022
7pm-8:30pm
Sponsored by the Boston Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Co-Sponsored by the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior
Dr. Judith Edersheim is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an attending Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Edersheim has performed a wide variety of forensic evaluations in both civil and criminal settings, including evaluations of competencies to stand trial, testamentary capacity, the capacity to make medical decisions, fitness for duty, the assessment of emotional damages, diminished capacity and criminal responsibility. Dr. Edersheim’s research interest is in the translation of psychiatric and neurologic behavior into legal settings. She has published articles regarding the intersection of legal and medical concepts in peer reviewed medical journals such as the Journal of the American Academy of Law and Psychiatry and The Clinical Companion to the Journal of Primary Care and in legal journals such as the Massachusetts Family Law Journal. She has been a featured speaker locally, regionally and nationally regarding issues pertaining to neuroscience, psychiatry and the law.
Dr. Robert Kinscherff is a clinical/forensic psychologist and attorney who currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He has been affiliated with CLBB for ten years and prior to taking this position he had served for three years as the Associate Managing Director of CLBB’s Juvenile and Young Adult Justice Project, and was the 2015 – 2017 Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience for CLBB and the Petrie Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Other service has included membership in governmental commissions and working groups on sexual offenders, juvenile homicide, medical care in correctional settings, and persons with severe and persistent mental illness and/or developmental or intellectual disabilities in juvenile and adult justice systems. For over a decade, Dr. Kinscherff served on the MA Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. His research and practice areas include juvenile and adult offenders, post-Miller resentencing and parole cases, expert testimony, violence risk assessment and management, law and policy in justice system reforms, gun violence policy, and the impact of adversities, resiliencies, and social determinants in child, adolescent, and young adult development. He has published widely, teaches and consults nationally and internationally, is involved in state and federal legislative education and advocacy, and provides trial and appellate judicial education on the implications of developmental neuroscience for law and public policy.
