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 the Dana Foundation

How can discoveries in neuroscience influence America's criminal justice system? Neuroscience and the Law examines 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. Gazzaniga Henry T. Greeley Laurence Tancredi Stephen Morse Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Part I: Neuroscience and the Law: A Report......Page 14 1. Framing the Issues......Page 16 2. Monitoring and Imaging the Brain......Page 20 3. Modifying the Brain......Page 38 4. Crosscutting Legal Issues......Page 45 5. Future Directions......Page 57 Part II: Commissioned Papers......Page 62 6. Free Will in the Twenty-first Century: A Discussion of Neuroscience and the Law......Page 64 7. Neuroscience Developments and the Law......Page 84 8. Prediction, Litigation, Privacy, and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience......Page 127 9. New Neuroscience, Old Problems......Page 170 Glossary......Page 214 List of Participants......Page 225 About the Authors......Page 229 Index......Page 233

How can discoveries in neuroscience influence America’s criminal justice system? Neuroscience and the Law examines 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. Gazzaniga
Henry T. Greeley
Laurence Tancredi
Stephen Morse.

Framing the issues Monitoring and imaging the brain Modifying the brain Crosscutting legal issues Future directions Free will in the Twenty-first Century : a discussion of neuroscience and the law / by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven Neuroscience developments and the law / by Laurence R. Tancredi Prediction, litigation, privacy, and property : some possible legal and social implications of advances in neuroscience / by Henry T. Greely New neuroscience, old problems / by Stephen J. Morse. "A report on an invitational meeting convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Dana Foundation."