Owen D. Jones is both a Professor of Law and a Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where he holds the Weaver Family Chair in Law, Brain, and Behaviour. With over 7 million dollars in grants from the MacArthur Foundation, he created and directed (from 2011 to 2021) the national Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, which conducted extensive brain-imaging experiments relevant to criminal justice. A widely published graduate of Yale Law School and Amherst College, Jones was in 2015 elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest honours in science.