Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice : A Report on an Invitational Meeting Convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and

by Garland, Brent

• ISBN13: 9781932594041
• ISBN10: 1932594043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

How can discoveries in neuroscience influence America's criminal justice system?Neuroscience and the Lawexamines the growing involvement of neuroscience in legal proceedings and considers how scientific advances challenge our existing concepts of justice. Based on an invitational meeting convened by the Dana Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the book opens with the deliberations of the twenty-six scientists and legal scholars who attended the conference and concludes with the commissioned papers of four distinguished scholars in law and brain research.Contributors:Michael S. GazzanigaHenry T. GreeleyLaurence TancrediStephen Morse

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Mark S. Frankel	vii
Acknowledgments	x
PART I Neuroscience and the Law: A Report
1. Framing the Issues	3	(4)
2. Monitoring and Imaging the Brain	7	(18)
3. Modifying the Brain	25	(7)
4. Crosscutting Legal Issues	32	(12)
5. Future Directions	44	(7)
PART II Commissioned Papers
6. Free Will in the Twenty-first Century: A Discussion of Neuroscience and the Law, by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven	51	(20)
7. Neuroscience Developments and the Law, by Laurence R. Tancredi	71	(43)
8. Prediction, Litigation, Privacy, and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience, by Henry T. Greely	114	(43)
9. New Neuroscience, Old Problems, by Stephen J. Morse	157	(44)
Glossary	201	(11)
List of Participants	212	(4)
About the Authors	216	(4)
Index	220