Anders Kaye

Anders Kaye is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/Faculty Development at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. His scholarship focuses on criminal responsibility, excuse doctrines, and intersections between behavioral sciences and legal theory.

• JD, University of Chicago Law School (with high honors)
• AB, Harvard University (cum laude)

Research Interests: Critical analysis of compatibilist and causal theories in criminal law, moral psychology, determinism's implications for legal accountability, and social/environmental factors influencing responsibility.

Key Article Trends: Explores deterministic challenges to free will in legal contexts, critiques of psychological and neuroscientific impacts on punishment, and analyses of vice law categorizations. Recurring subtopics include prison conditions, racialized risk assessment, and folk theories underpinning legal distinctions.

Speaking Engagements: Regularly presents at legal conferences including ABA Criminal Justice Section Institute, CrimFest, and AALS Midyear Conferences. Has provided invited commentaries on neuroscience and criminal law topics via teleconference.