WASHINGTON (TEXAS TRIBUNE) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared fairly split among party lines during oral arguments Tuesday in a Texas case involving how to define intellectual disability among death ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Schneider, Syracuse University College of Law, Class of 2015, explores criticisms of the DSM-5 after the US Supreme Court used it as the sole national standard to define ...

This piece originally appeared at Salon. Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability, yet he sits on Texas’s death row because the courts there used John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to ...

How should states decide if someone convicted of a crime has an intellectual disability, when the answer means life or death? This spring the Supreme Court will wade back into these murky waters, 12 ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

It’s time again for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues. The science of intellectual humility is growing rapidly, and scientists are ...

Quick, list off the top three things you look for in a partner. If “smart,” “bright,” or “witty” made the list, you’re probably looking for someone you’re intellectually compatible with. If, however, ...

Co-Founded by CEO Cheryl Slipski, Chairman Anil D. Aggarwal, and Simran Aggarwal, KnowIt’s flagship annual event, “Intellectual Property in a Digital World,” will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on ...

Until recently, "intellectual humility" had been a personality characteristic that hadn’t received much scholarly or media attention. This is beginning to change. A trailblazing new study from Duke ...

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