Stephen J. Morse
Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry; Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society

Stephen J. Morse works on problems of individual responsibility and agency. Morse has published numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters and has co-edited collections, including (with A. Roskies) A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience and (with L.Katz & M.
Books
CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (2009) (contributing author, with Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan).
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FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999; Foundation Press, 2000 (co-edited with L. Katz & M.S. Moore).
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Articles and Book Chapters
NeuroEthics: NeuroLaw, in Oxford Handbooks Online (Sanford Goldberg ed., February 2017).
Neuroprediction: New Technology, Old Problems, 8 BIOETHICA FORUM 128 (2015).
A Good Enough Reason: Addiction, Agency and Criminal Responsibility, 56 INQUIRY 490 (2013).
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Working Papers
Before and After Hinckley: Legal Insanity in the United States (February 11, 2021), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-08; in THE INSANITY DEFENCE: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Ronnie Mackay & Warren Brookbanks eds., Oxford, forthcoming 2022). (forthcoming)
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Is Executive Function The Universal Acid? (November 16, 2020), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-46. (forthcoming)
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Against the Received Wisdom: Why Should the Criminal Justice System Give Kids a Break? (July 2, 2019), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-29; CRIM. L. & PHIL. (forthcoming). (forthcoming)
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Research Areas
- Criminal Law
- Mental Health Law
- Neuroscience and Law
Positions
Penn Law - Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law (1988-); Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry (1991-); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1990-92)
USC - Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law (1982-88); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1979-80); Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1979-88); Professor of Psychology (1982-88); Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1977-79)
Visiting Professor - California Institute of Technology (Law and Social Science); Cardozo; Georgetown; Virginia
Trustee, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 1995-2004
Courses
- Criminal Law
- Mental Health Law
- Freedom & Responsibility
- Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience: Mind, Brain and Society (co-taught in the College's Pilot Program)