Nita A. Farahany

Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

farahany@duke.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4808-6256

Duke Law School Room 3024, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0362

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Scholarly Works

Neural Biometric Data, Privacy, and Enhancements: A Discussion with Dr. Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University

Journal article AI in Neuroscience · 2025 Link to item Cite

Fiduciary AI for the Future of Brain-Technology Interactions

Journal article · 2025 Link to item Cite

Die Wirkliche Gefahr Liegt in der Erosion der Autonomie: Ein E-Mail-Interview über Kognitive Freiheit und die Problematische Nutzung Neuronaler Daten

Journal article Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft · 2025 Link to item Cite

Neurotech at Work

Book section · 2024 Cite

Congress Is Right to Want to Curtail Tiktok’s Power and Influence

Other The Guardian · 2024 Cite

The Battle for Your Brain: A Legal Scholar’s Argument for Protecting Brain Data and Cognitive Liberty

Journal article Judicature · 2024 Cite

Artificial Intelligence in Neurology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Implications

Journal article Journal of Neurology · 2024 Link to item Cite

By Statute or by Common Law? The Legal Determination of Death

Journal article American Journal of Bioethics · 2024 Link to item Cite

U.S. Public Perceptions of the Sensitivity of Brain Data

Journal article Journal of Law and the Biosciences · 2024 Link to item Cite

Beyond Neural Data: Cognitive Biometrics and Mental Privacy

Journal article Neuron · 2024 Link to item Cite

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Book · 2023 Link to item Cite

A Round-Up of 2022 Neurotechnology Advances

Other Volokh Conspiracy · 2023 Cite

We Need a New Human Right to Cognitive Liberty

Other The Guardian · 2023 Cite

Provide a Résumé, Cover Letter and Access to Your Brain? The Creepy Race to Read Workers’ Minds

Other Los Angeles Times · 2023 Cite

This Is the Battle for Your Brain at Work

Other Fast Company · 2023 Cite

TikTok Is Part of China’s Cognitive Warfare Campaign

Other Guardian · 2023 Cite

'Cognitive Liberty' Is the Human Right We Need to Talk About

Other Time · 2023 Cite

Human Values in a Digital Age

Other Science · 2023 Link to item Cite

Neurotech at Work: Welcome to the World of Brain Monitoring for Employees

Journal article Harvard Business Review · 2023 Cite

Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'

Journal article Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics · 2023 Link to item Cite

Design of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Trial of Tofersen Initiated in Clinically Presymptomatic SOD1 Variant Carriers: the ATLAS Study

Journal article Neurotherapeutics · 2022 Link to item Cite

We Parents of Unvaccinated Children Need More Guidance

U.S. State Laws on the Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria

Book section · 2022 Link to item Cite

Neuroethics: Fostering Collaborations to Enable Neuroscientific Discovery

Journal article AJOB Neuroscience · 2021 Link to item Cite

Criminal Defendants Still Cite a ‘Gene for Violence.’ It Doesn’t Exist

Other Washington Post · 2021 Link to item Cite

The Rise and Fall of the ‘’Warrior Gene’’ Defense

Journal article Science · 2021 Link to item Cite

The Extent of Employee Surveillance Is Greater Than You Know

Other Duke Magazine · 2021 Link to item Cite

Advancing the Ethical Dialogue About Monkey/Human Chimeric Embryos

Journal article Cell · 2021 Link to item Cite

Consumer Genetic Technologies : Ethical and Legal Considerations

Book · 2021 Link to item Cite

Neurolaw: A Conversation with Nita Farahany

Book section · 2021 Link to item Cite

Proof of Vaccination Will Be Very Valuable — and Easy to Abuse

Journal article Washington Post · 2020 Cite

Genetic Evidence, MAOA, and State v. Yepez

Journal article New Mexico Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Cost of Changing Our Minds

Journal article Emory Law Journal · 2019 Link to item Cite

The NIH BRAIN Initiative: Integrating Neuroethics and Neuroscience

Journal article Neuron · 2019 Link to item Cite

Neuroscience and the Criminal Justice System

Journal article Annual Review of Criminology · 2019 Link to item Cite

Ethical Guidelines for DNA Testing in Migrant Family Reunification

Journal article American Journal of Bioethics · 2019 Link to item Cite

Part-revived Pig Brains Raise Slew of Ethical Quandaries

Other Nature · 2019 Link to item Cite

The Seductive Allure of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Neurotechnology

Book section · 2019 Link to item Cite

The Ethics of Experimenting with Human Brain Tissue

Journal article Nature · 2018 Link to item Cite

Neuroethics Guiding Principles for the NIH BRAIN Initiative

Journal article Journal of Neuroscience · 2018 Link to item Cite

Human by Design: An Ethical Framework for Human Augmentation

Journal article IEEE Technology and Society Magazine · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Legal Circle of Life

Book section · 2016 Link to item Cite

3 Reasons Brain Science is Terrific and Terrifying

Other World Economic Forum · 2016 Cite

Neuroscience and Behavioral Genetics in US Criminal Law: An Empirical Analysis

Journal article Journal of Law & the Biosciences · 2016 Link to item Cite