Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice.
Law and Neuroscience, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and neuroscience scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.
Author(s): Michael Freeman
Series: Current Legal Issues (Book 13)
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 568
Tags: Law--Psychological aspects; Neurosciences.
Contents
List of Contributors xi
1. Introduction: Law and the Brain 1
Michael Freeman
2. What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal
Responsibility 13
Walter Glannon
3. Mens Rea, Logic, and the Brain 29
Gert-Jan Lokhorst
4. Indeterminism and Control: An Approach to the Problem of Luck 41
John Martin Fischer
5. Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility: Proving ‘Can’t Help
Himself’ as a Narrow Bar to Criminal Liability 61
Henry T. Greely
6. Madness, Badness, and Neuroimaging-Based Responsibility
Assessments 79
Nicole A. Vincent
7. Brain Images as Evidence in the Criminal Law 97
Adina L. Roskies and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
8. The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment 115
Joshua W. Buckholtz, Christopher L. Asplund, Paul E. Dux,
David H. Zald, John C. Gore, Owen D. Jones, and René Marois
9. Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Culpability 141
Lisa Claydon
10. How (Some) Criminals Are Made 171
Theodore Y. Blumoff
11. Neuroscience and Penal Law: Ineffectiveness of the Penal Systems
and Flawed Perception of the Under-Evaluation of Behaviour
Constituting Crime. The Particular Case of Crimes Regarding
Intangible Goods 193
David Terracina
12. Neuroscience and Emotional Harm in Tort Law: Rethinking the
American Approach to Free-Standing Emotional Distress Claims 203
Betsy J. Grey
13. Neuroscience and Ideology: Why Science Can Never Supply a
Complete Answer for Adolescent Immaturity 231
June Carbone
14. Adolescent Brain Science and Juvenile Justice 255
Terry A. Maroney
15. The Neuroscience of Cruelty as Brain Damage: Legal Framings of
Capacity and Ethical Issues in the Neurorehabilitation of Motor
Neurone Disease and Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia 283
Robin Mackenzie and Mohamed Sakel
16. The Carmentis Machine: Legal and Ethical Issues in the Use of
Neuroimaging to Guide Treatment Withdrawal in Newborn Infants 309
Dominic Wilkinson and Charles Foster
17. The Right to Silence Protects Mental Control 335
Dov Fox
18. Minds Apart: Severe Brain Injury, Citizenship, and Civil Rights 367
Joseph J. Fins
19. Reciprocity and Neuroscience in Public Health Law 385
A. M. Viens
20. Pathways to Persuasion: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Study
and Practice of Law 395
Cheryl Boudreau, Seana Coulson, and Mathew D. McCubbins
21. The Juridical Role of Emotions in the Decisional Process of
Popular Juries 407
Laura Capraro
22. Possible Legal Implications of Neural Mechanisms Underlying
Ethical Behaviour 419
Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman
23. What Hobbes Left Out: The Neuroscience of Compassion and
its Implications for a New Common-wealth 433
James D. Duffy
24. Neuroscience and the Free Exercise of Religion 449
Steven Goldberg
25. Steps toward a Constructivist and Coherentist Theory of Judicial
Reasoning in Civil Law Tradition 459
Enrique Cáceres
26. Evolutionary Jurisprudence: The End of the Naturalistic Fallacy
and the Beginning of Natural Reform? 483
Morris B. Hoffman
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27. The History of Scientific and Clinical Images in Mid-to-Late
Nineteenth-Century American Legal Culture: Implications for
Contemporary Law and Neuroscience 505
Daniel S. Goldberg
28. Lost in Translation? An Essay on Law and Neuroscience 529
Stephen J. Morse
Index 563
