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Richard Glen Boire serves as the Center
for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics' Senior Fellow in Law and Policy, and also serves
as a director. The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is a nonprofit law, policy,
& public education center working to advance and protect freedom of thought.
Mr. Boire has a lifetime commitment to freedom of thought and open information
flows.
He
has been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and filed the
first-ever freedom of thought brief before
the Supreme Court in 2002. A synopsis of the central principle in that case is
available in
this Wired magazine interview.
Mr. Boire's current scholarship focuses on updating the legal notion of freedom of thought in light of
ongoing scientific advancements related to understanding and mediating brain
function.
Before co-founding the CCLE in
2000, he spent ten years practicing constitutional and criminal
law. He is an internationally recognized expert on the jurisprudence of a category of
psychotropic agents known as entheogens. He believes that such agents provide
the closest real-world case study for understanding and addressing many of the
legal, social, and ethical issues that society will confront as advances in the
neurosciences produce a greater array of drugs and other technologies capable of
directly changing a person's thought processes.
He has represented clients in state and federal courts, and
regularly consults on complex litigation involving freedom of thought issues. If
you are looking to retain him in a legal matter,
go here.
In addition to authoring
several books, Mr. Boire’s articles and essays have appeared in a wide spectrum
of publications. He has been a featured speaker at national
and international conferences, and is frequently quoted in the media. In early 2004, he was
profiled in New Scientist Magazine, and
in September 2004 SEED magazine named
him one of eighteen "revolutionary minds redefining science."
Mr. Boire
received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence (J.D.) from the University of
California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law), in 1990.
His work for the CCLE is funded entirely by donations.
If you are a member of
the press and would like to contact Richard for an article you are working on,
or if you would like him to speak at your event, please email us.
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