B.S. 1969 St. Louis University; J.D. 1982 Washington University School of Law
; Ph.D. 1976 St. Louis University.
Member of the Mercer Law Faculty since 1985.
CV / Resume: blumoff_ty.pdf
Involvement:
Contributor, Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research; Member, Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law (SEAL); Exec. Comm. AALS Section on Federal Courts., Treasurer; Exec. Comm. AALS Section on Law and Religion,Program Chair, 1998; Section Chair, 1998-99
Publications:
[Recent/Partial]
"The Neuropsychology of Justifications and Excuses: Some Problem Cases from Self-defense, Duress and Provocations, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1380081 (posted May 2009); to be published in vol. 50 Jurimetrics (2009-10);
"How (some) Criminals are Made," http://ssrn.com/abstract=1421868 (posted June 2009)
"The Brain Sciences and Criminal Law Norms," http://ssrn.com/abstrat=1388076 (posted May 2009); “The Problems with Blaming,” in Michael Freeman and Oliver Goodenough, eds. Law, Mind, and Brain (London: Ashgate Publishing 2009);
On the Nature of the Action-Omission Network, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1003 (2008);
"On the Nature of Vengeance and Forgiveness," at http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1427 (posted June 20, 2006);
"On the Potential of Neuroscience," at http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps844 (posted October 28 2005);
Some Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Retribution, 17 Can. J. L. & Juris. 233 (2004);
A Jurisprudence for Punishing Attempts Asymmetrically, 6 Buff. Crim L. Rev.951 (Fall 2004);
Justifying Punishment, 15 Can. J. L. Juris. 161 (2001);
"Comments of Kadishs Moral Excess," http://ssrn.com/abstract=285292 (posted Fall 2001);
Book Review, Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (by Robert Audi), 16 J. L. & Relig.901 (2001);
An Essay of Liberalism and Public Theology,14 J. L. & Relig. 229 (1999/2000);
Genesis, Gender and Community, 9 S. Calif.Rev. L. & Womens Stud. 5 (1999);
The New Religionists Newest Social Gospel: On the Rhetoric and Reality of Religions "Marginalization" in Public Life, 51 U. Miami L. Rev. 1, (1996);
The Holocaust and Public Discourse, 11 J.L. & Relig. 591 (1994-95) (anthologized in DeCost and Schwartz, eds. The Holocausts Ghosts: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education (Edmonton: U. of Alberta Press 200).
Honors:
Henry Semple Ames Scholar, Washington University School of Law; Order of the Coif (1982)
Teaches:
Criminal Law, Problems in the Jurisprudence of Criminal Law, Bioethics, and Law, Genetics & Neuroscience
Recent Presentations:
How (some) Criminals are Made, Colloquium on Law and the Brain, Faculty of Law, University College London, July 2009.
The Brain Sciences and Criminal alw Norms, The Gruter Institute Annual Scholarship Conference, Sqwau Valley Cal., May 2009.
The Brain Sciences and Criminal Law Norms, Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 17, 2009.
“On the Nature of the Action-Omission Network,” Symposium on Law as a Network, Georgia State University, March 2008.
“Vengeance and Forgiveness in Criminal Law,” Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, U. Of Indiana, Bloomington, Nov. 2007; The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Cal., May 2006.
“The Problem with Blaming,” University College London Faculty of Laws and The Gruter Institute, London, February 13, 2006, and John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, Feb 3, 2006.
Presentation, “Whose Decision, Who Decides? Decision-making at the End of Life: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues at the End of Life,” Joint CLE/MLE Seminar, Mercer University Law School, November 2005.
An Analysis of Roper v. Simmons, The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Cal., May 2005.
“Blaming Angry Men,” Georgia State University Law School, November 2004.
Presentation, Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Journal of Law and Religion, November 2004.
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