ASU’s 9th Biannual Law and Neuroscience Conference

Addiction and the Courts:
What Can New Science and Technologies Offer?

ASU’s 9th Biannual Law and Neuroscience Conference

Addiction and the Courts: What Can New Science and Technologies Offer?

Friday, January 10th, 2025

Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse
401 W. Washington St, Phoenix, AZ

ASU Law’s Center for Law, Science and Innovation and the U.S. District Court of Arizona invite you to explore the intersection of addiction, justice and technology at a free neuroscience and law conference.

The event will feature a diverse lineup of distinguished speakers and attendees, including doctors, judges, lawyers, professors and subject-matter experts.

Topics to be discussed include current scientific views on addiction, new approaches to treatment and the challenges the justice system faces when addicted individuals enter the system, including during representation, sentencing, treatment while incarcerated and probation.

Dr. Keith Humphreys

Dr. Keith Humphreys

Dr. Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. His research addresses the prevention and treatment of addictive disorders, the formation of public policy and the extent to which subjects in medical research differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice.