Teneille R. Brown
Associate Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor Brown joined the faculty in 2009 following two years as a fellow at Stanford University, where she was a post-doctoral scholar in the medical school's Center for Biomedical Ethics and a fellow with the law school's Center for Law and the Biosciences. Professor Brown has also been a fellow with the MacArthur Foundation's ground breaking Law and Neuroscience Project, where she worked for the Network on Legal Decision Making. Before that, she practiced law for two years at Latham & Watkins in Washington DC, specializing in early stage medical device mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and FDA regulatory matters. She also worked on several pro bono cases, including representing asylum seekers, Gallaudet University’s student body, and the Appleseed Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law, where she focused on medical ethics and assisted in the creation of the Pediatric Advocacy Initiative, a legal clinic designed to offer free services to patients at C.S. Mott Hospital.
Before attending law school, Professor Brown conducted HIV clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her B.A. with high honors and distinction. She majored in the History and Sociology of Science, with concentrations in bioethics and the biological basis of behavior. Professor Brown’s research is highly interdisciplinary, and spans a wide range of issues at the intersection of law, biotechnology, medicine, and ethics. Her work has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal and Science Progress, and she has also presented her research to law faculty, neuroscientists, practicing attorneys, and graduate students across the country.
Professor Brown teaches Torts, Bioethics & the Law, and Current Issues in Law & Biosciences. She is on the Executive Committee for the AALS Evidence section
Scholarship Highlights
Book Chapters
Emerging Issues in Neuroscience Policy, co-authored with Jen McCormick, in Oxford Handbook on Neuroethics (Judy Illes & Barbara Sakalian eds., forthcoming 2010)
Book Reviews
1 Am. J. of Bioethics-Neuroscience 1 (2010) (reviewing Nancey Murphy & Warren S. Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will, (2007))
Law Review Articles
In-corp-o-real: A Psychological Critique of Corporate Personhood and Citizens United, (accepted for 2013 publication, Florida State Business Review)
The Affective Blindness of Evidence Law, 89 University of Denver Law review 47 (2012)
Through a Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States, co-authored with Emily R. Murphy, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1119 (2010)
The Eminence of Imminence and the Myopia of Markets, 9 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 674 (2010)
Genetic Biobanks, Certificates of Confidentiality and the Subpoena Power, co-authored with Kelly Lowenberg, 2009 Stan. J. L. Sci. & Pol'y 88 (2010)
Double Helix, Double Standards: Private Matters and Public People, 11 J. Health Care L. & Pol'y 295 (2008)
Articles
The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges’ Sentencing of Psychopaths? (co-authors Lisa Aspinwall & Jim Tabery), 337 Science 846 (2012)
When Scientific Data Become Legal Evidence, 324 Sci. 335 (2009)
Brain Images as Legal Evidence, co-authored with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies & Emily Murphy, 5 Episteme 359 (2008)
Works in Progress
The Psychological Presumptions Underlying the Federal Rules of Evidence
Selected Talks and Presentations
National Seminar for Appellate Staff Attorneys, Federal Judicial Center, San Diego, CA, May 2009
International Society for Radiological Medicine’s (ISMRM) Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2013
Evidentiary Issues Related to Functional Brain Imaging, Journal of Law and Health, Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Apr. 2009
Neuroscience and the Courts: The Implications of Advances in Neurotechnology, Stanford Technology Law Review, Stanford Law School, Feb. 2009
Translating "ELSI": Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics, Case Western Reserve University, May 2008
Stanford Law School Junior Scholars in Law and Neuroscience, Stanford Law School, Apr. 2007