Laura J. Mott — Articles

Rest My Case: Sleep Science Should Inform J.D. Program Structures and Licensure Examinations to Enhance Performance, Equity and Well-Being

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Vol. 27: Iss. 1

This Article critically examines the legal profession’s longstanding marginalization of sleep and circadian biology and argues that temporal structural norms embedded in legal education and licensure are at odds with established scientific evidence. Drawing on extensive and interdisciplinary research in neuroscience, chronobiology, cognitive psychology, and timekeeping...