Adam Kolber
A.B., Princeton University
Criminal Law
Health Law
Neuroethics
Articles & Essays
The End of Liberty, 15 Criminal Law & Philosophy 407 (2021)
Line Drawing in the Dark, 22 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 111 (2021)
How to Fix Legal Scholarmush, 95 Indiana Law Journal 1191 (2020)
Why We (Probably) Must Deliberately Infect, 7 Journal of Law and the Biosciences Jan.-Jun. 2020, at 1
Not-So-Smart Blockchain Contracts and Artificial Responsibility, 21 Stanford Technology Law Review 198 (2018)
Supreme Judicial Bullshit, 50 Arizona State Law Journal 141 (2018)
Punishment and Moral Risk, 2018 University of Illinois Law Review 487 (2018)
Two Views of First Amendment Thought Privacy, 18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1381 (2016)
The Bumpiness of Criminal Law, 67 Alabama Law Review 855 (2015)
Smooth and Bumpy Laws, 102 California Law Review 655 (2014)
Will There Be a Neurolaw Revolution?, 89 Indiana Law Journal 807 (2014)
Unintentional Punishment, 18 Legal Theory 1 (2012)
The Experiential Future of the Law, 60 Emory Law Journal 585 (2011)
How to Improve Empirical Desert, 75 Brooklyn Law Review 433 (2010)
The Comparative Nature of Punishment, 89 Boston University Law Review 1565 (2009)
How Placebo Deception Can Infringe Autonomy, 9 American Journal of Bioethics 25 (2009)
The Organ Conscription Trolley Problem, 9 American Journal of Bioethics 13 (2009)
The Subjective Experience of Punishment, 109 Columbia Law Review 182 (2009)
Freedom of Memory Today, 1 Neuroethics 145 (2008)
A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception, 26 Yale Law and Policy Review 75 (2007)
Pain Detection and the Privacy of Subjective Experience, 33 American Journal of Law and Medicine 433 (2007)
Clarifying the Debate Over Therapeutic Forgetting, 9 American Journal of Bioethics 25 (2007)
Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 1561 (2006)
A Matter of Priority: Transplanting Organs Preferentially to Registered Donors, 55 Rutgers Law Review 671 (2003)
Standing Upright: The Moral and Legal Standing of Humans and Other Apes, 54 Stanford Law Review 163 (2001)
Mental Statism and the Experience Machine, 3 Bard Journal of Social Science 10 (1994/1995)
Books
Punishment for the Greater Good (2024)
Contributions to Books
Measuring Punishment Severity, in Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy (Jesper Ryberg ed., 2024)
The Limited Moral Relevance of Pleas and Verdicts, in Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (Julian V. Roberts & Jesper Ryberg eds., 2023)
The Subjectivist Critique of Proportionality, in The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law (Larry Alexander & Kimberly Ferzan eds., 2019)
The Time-Frame Challenge to Retributivism, in Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Michael Tonry ed., 2019)
Free Will as a Matter of Law, in Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (D. Patterson & M. Pardo eds., Oxford University Press, 2016)
Smoothing Vague Laws, in Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (G. Keil & R. Poscher eds., Oxford University Press, 2016)
Characteristics Related to Punishment Experience, in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul H. Robinson et al. eds., Oxford University Press, 2009)
Compliance-Promoting Intuitions, in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul H. Robinson et al. eds., Oxford University Press,2009).
Other
Alternative Burdens on Freedom of Conscience, 47 San Diego Law Review 909 (2010)