Publications

Gruter Fellow Authored

The Research Fellows of the Institute and others who have attended the Gruter Institute programs have published countless scholarly books, book chapters, and articles drawing on their work and experiences with the Institute.  The most recent works can be found on the webpages of each of these scholars and writers; for work that preexists their own webpages, the following provides a sampling of this work, with an emphasis on law-related publications:

Articles & Papers

Reciprocity and the Law

Christopher Badcock, 22 Vermont Law Review (1998)

Sex and Temperament in Modern Society: A Darwinian View of the Glass Ceiling and the Gender Gap

Kingsley R. Browne, 37 AZ L. J. 975 (1995)

Biotechnology and the Creation of Ethics

Raymond R. Coletta, 32 McGeorge L. Rev. 89 (2000)

The Measuring Stick of Regulatory Takings: A Biological and Cultural Analysis

Raymond R. Coletta, 1 J. of Con. L. 20 (199*)

Gender Differences in Biological and Sociological Predictors of Crime

Deborah W. Denno, 22 Vermont L. Rev. 305 (1998)

The Genome and the Law: Or Should Increased Knowledge Change the Law?

Donald E. Elliott, 25 Harv. J. of L. & Pub. Pol’y 61(2002)

The Tragi-Comedy of the Commons: Evolutionary Biology, Economics and Environmental Law

Donald E. Elliott, Virginia J. Environmental. L. 17 (2001)

A Four Function Theory of Biology for Law

Fikentscher & McGuire, 25 Rechtstheorie 291 (1994)

Cultural Complexity

Wolfgang Fikentsher,   SFI Working Paper No. 98-10-087, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1998; abridged version: Cultural Complexity: Legal Ethnographical Observations, Festschrift Bernhard Grossfeld, Heidelberg: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 197-225 (1999)

The Biological Roots of the Undue Influence Doctrine: What’s Love Got to do With It?

Lawrence Frolik, 57 U Pitt. L Rev. 841 (1996)

The Rule of One-Third

Rick Geddes and Paul J. Zak, J. Legal Stud. (2002)

The Tao of Jurisprudence: Chaos, Brain Science, Synchronicity, and the Law

Thomas E. Geu, 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 933 (1994)

Chaos, Complexity, and Coevolution: The Web of Law, Management Theory, and Law Related Services at the Millennium

Thomas E. Geu, Tenn. L. Rev. 925 (1998)

Policy and Science: A Review Essay of Wilson’s Consilience:The Unity of Knowledge

Thomas E. Geu, 44 S. South Dakota L. Rev. 612 (1999)

Evolutionary Biology and Behavior: A Brief Overview and Some Important Concepts

Timothy H. Goldsmith and Owen D. Jones, 39 Jurimetrics 131 (Symposium Issue) (1999)

Mapping Cortical Areas Associated with Legal Reasoning and Moral Intuition

Oliver R. Goodenough, 41 Jurimetrics 429 (2001)

Information Replication in Culture: Three Modes for the Transmission of Culture Elements Through Observed Action

Oliver R. Goodenough, Proceedings of the AISB’99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (Sussex, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, 1999)

Biology, Behavior, and Criminal Law: Seeking a Responsible Approach to an Inevitable Interchange

Oliver R. Goodenough, 22 Vermont L. Rev. 263 (1998)

Mind Viruses: Culture Evolution and the Puzzle of Altruism

Oliver R. Goodenough, 34 Soc. Sci. Info. 287 (1995)

A Theory of the Origin of Natural Law

M. Grady & M. McGuire, J. Contemp. L. Issues 87 (1997)

Behavior, Evolution, and the Sense of Justice

Margaret Gruter, 34 Am. Behav. Sci (Jan/Feb 1991

The Origins of Legal Behavior

Margaret Gruter, J. Social Biol. Struct. 2 (1979)

Law in Sociobiological Perspective

Margaret Gruter, 5 Fl. St. L. Rev., 181 (1977)

Ganging Up on Girls: Young Women ad Their Emerging Violence

Cheryl Hanna, 41 Ariz. L. Rev. 93 (1999)

Can Biological Inquiry Help Reduce Male Violence Against Women?

Cheryl Hanna, 22 Vermont L. Rev. 333 (1998)

The Biological Roots of Punishment

Morris B. Hoffman & Timothy H. Goldsmith, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 1:2 (Spring 2004)

Law and Behavior Biology

Owen D. Jones with Timothy Goldsmith, Columbia Law Review 105:405 (2005)

Law, Evolution, and the Brain: Applications and Open Questions

Owen D. Jones, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 359:1697 (2004)

Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law’s Leverage: Behavioral Economics Meets Behavioral Biology

Owen D. Jones, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 1141 (2001)

Proprioception, Non-law, and Biolegal History

Owen D. Jones, The University of Florida Dunwody Distinguished Lecture in Law, 53 Florida Law Review 831 (2001)

The Evolution of Irrationality

Owen D. Jones, 41 Jurimetrics 289, Symposium Issue (2001)

Science and Human Behavior: A Reply

Owen D. Jones, 41 Jurimetrics 371, Symposium Issue, 2001

 Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings

Owen D. Jones, 86 Cornell Law review 1386 (review essay) (2001)

Evolutionary Analysis in Law: Some Objections Considered

Owen D. Jones, Symposium Issue: DNA 67 Brooklyn Law Review 207 (2001)

On The Nature of Norms: Biology, Morality, and The Disruption of Order

Owen D. Jones, 98 Michigan Law Review 2072 (review essay)(2000)

An Evolutionary Analysis of Rape: Reflections on Transitions

Owen D. Jones, 11 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 151 (2000)

Law, Emotions, and Behavioral Biology

Owen D. Jones 39 Jurimetrics 283 (1999)

Introduction to the Symposium on Biology and Sexual Aggression

Owen D. Jones & Dan Strouse, 39 Jurimetrics 113 (1999)

Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape: Toward Explanation and Prevention

Owen D. Jones, 87 California L. Rev. 827 (1999)

Evolutionary Analysis in Law: An Introduction and Application to Child Abuse

Owen D. Jones, 75 N.C.L. Rev 1117 (1997)

Law and Biology: Toward an Integrated Model of Human Behavior

Owen D. Jones, 8 J. Contemp L. Issues 167 (1997)

Genes, Behavior and Law

Owen D. Jones, 5 Politics and The Life Sciences 101 (1996)

Law and Evolutionary Biology: Obstacles and Opportunities

Owen D. Jones, 10 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 265 (1994)

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Legal Scholarship: Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Evolutionary Psychology

Russell Korobkin, 41 Jurimetrics 319, Symposium Issue, 2001

Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans

Michael Kosfeld, & Markus Heinrichs, Paul J. Zak, Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr, Nature 435 673-676 (2 June 2005)

Environmental Pollution and Crime

Roger D. Masters, 22 Vermont L. Rev. 359 (1998)

The Once and Future Property-Based Vision of the First Amendment,

John O. McGinnis, 63 Chicago L. Rev. 49 (1996)

The Original Constitution and Our Origins

John O. Mcginnis, 19 Harv. J. of L. & Pub. Pol’y 251 (1996)

The Human Constitution and Constitutive Law

John O. McGinnis, 8 J. Contemp. L. Issues 211 (1997)

On Apology and Consilience

Erin O’Hara & Douglas Yarn, 77 Wash. L. Rev. 1121 (2002)

 Brain Plasticity and Spanish Moss in Biolegal Analysis

Erin O’Hara, 53 Florida L. Rev. 905 (2001)

Deception, Self-Deception, and Mythology: The Law of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest

William H. Rodgers, Jr., 26 Pac. L. J. 821 (1995

Where Environmental Law And Biology Meet: Of Pandas’ Thumbs, Statutory Sleepers, And Effective Law

William H. Rodgers, Jr., U. Colo. L. Rev. 25 (1993)

The Evolution of Cooperation in Natural Resources Law: The Drifter/Habitué Distinction

William H. Rodgers, Jr., 38 U. Fla. L. Rev. 195 (1986)

The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes,

William H. Rodgers, Jr., 4 J. Land Use & Envtl. I. 377 (1989)

The Lesson of the Red Squirrel: Consensus and Betrayal in the Environmental Statutes

William H. Rodgers, Jr., 5 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y (1988)

The State of Nature and the Evolution of Political Preferences

Paul H. Rubin, American Law and Economics Review, 50-81 (Spring, 2001)

Hierarchy

Paul H. Rubin, 11 Human Nature (2000)

Group Selection and the Limits of Altruism

Paul H. Rubin, Journal of Bioeconomics, 9-23 (2000)

How Humans Make Political Decisions,

Paul H. Rubin, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, V. 41, No. 3, 337-357 (Spring, 2001)

Complexity Theory as a Paradigm for the Dynamical Law-and-Society System: A Wake-Up Call for Legal Reductionism and the Modern Administrative State

J.B. Ruhl, 45 Duke L. J. 849 (1996)

The Fitness of Law: Using Complexity Theory to Describe the Evolution of Law and Society and its Practical Meaning for Democracy

J.B. Ruhl 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 1407 (1996)

Pushing Evolutionary Analysis of Law or Evolving Law: Design Without a Designer

Jeffrey E. Stake 53 Florida L. Rev. 875 (2001)

Can Evolutionary Science Contribute to Discussions of Law?

Jeffrey E. Stake, 41 Jurimetrics 379, Symposium Issue (2001)

Are We Buyers or Hosts? A Memetic Approach to the First Amendment

Jeffrey E. Stake, 52 Alabama L. Rev. 1213 (2001)

Evolution, Human Behavior, and Law: A Response to Owen Jones’ Dunwody Lecture

Thomas S. Ulen, 53 Florida L. Rev. 931 (2001)

The Divergence of Neuroscience and Law

Jacob R. Waldbauer & Michael S. Gazzaniga, 41 Jurimetrics 357, Symposium Issue, (2001)

Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences

Todd Zywicki, Humane Studies Review 13(1) (Fall 2000)

Essays on Growth: Economic and Biological

Essays prepared in conjunction with the “Workshop on Growth,” Stanford University, October 12, 2012

Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO) of the results of the Gruter Institute’s Moral Markets project

(Article summary of book of same title).
Citation: “Moral Markets” in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77 (2011) 212–233.

Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy 

(2008) Paul J. Zak, Editor, Princeton University Press.

Symposium: Must We Choose Between Rationality and Irrationality

(2005) Claire A. Hill, Editor, Chicago Kent Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 3, 2005

Modes of Thought

 (1995) W. Fikentscher, Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tuebingen, Germany; 2nd ed. 2004.

Hastings Women’s Law Journal Symposium: Sexual Trafficking

(2002) Hastings Women’s Law Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter, 2002

Symposium: ASU-Gruter Conference on Law, Behavioral Biology and Economics

(2001) Owen Jones, Editor, Jurimetrics, Vol. 41, No. 3, Spring 2001.

Korruption, Reziprozität und Recht

(2000). Schriften zur Rechtspsychologie, Band 4, Wolfgang Fikentscher and R. Jakob, Editors, Stämpfli.Verlag AG, Bern

Gene, Kultur und Recht

(2000). Schriften zur Rechtspsychologie, Band 5, W. Fikentscher, Usteri and W. Wickler, Editors, Staempfli Verlag AG, Bern

Searching for Justice and Living Without It

(1999) M. Gruter with Eric Morhenn. Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Publisher, Portola Valley, CA

Law and Evolutionary Biology

(1999) Lawrence A. Frolik, Editor, with Wolfgang Fikentscher and Gerti Dieker. Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Publisher, Portola Valley, CA

Normative Verhaltensforschung: Ethologische Grundlagen der Rechtsverhaltensforschung – Epigenetics and the Law, Texts and Materials, a Reader

(1998) Wolfgang Fikentscher and Sebastian Kuck, Tauberbischofsheim Conference of the Gruter Institute for Law and  Behavioral Research and the Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen Post Starnberg, sponsored by StiftungVolkswagenwerk, Hanover/Germany,  17 to 20 September 1998, Munich 1998.

Gewalt in der Kleingruppe und das Recht

(1997) M.Gruter and M. Rehbinder, Editors, Stämpfli Verlag AG Bern

Law, Human Behavior and Evolution

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, (vol. 8, 1997) University of San Diego School of Law

Modes of Thought

(1995) W. Fikentscher. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Verlag, Tuebingen, Germany

Human Nature and the New Europe

(1993) M. T. McGuire and Gruter Institute, Editors. Westview Press, Boulder, CO

Behavior, Evolution and the Sense of Justice

M. Gruter, Editor. American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 34, Jan./Feb.1991) Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA

In the Matter of “Baby M,” Report from the Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research

Robin Fox, in Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 1 (August 1988) pp. 77-85