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