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Law and Neuroscience: Current Legal Issues Volume 13

Michael Freeman

Abstract

Current Legal Issues, like its sister series 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. This book, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues se ... More

Keywords: law, neuroscience, legal thought, legal argument, legal theory, legal practice, inter-connections, key issues

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199599844
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599844.001.0001

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Michael Freeman, editor
Professor of English Law, University College London
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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Introduction: Law and the Brain

Michael Freeman *

2 What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal Responsibility

Walter Glannon *

3 Mens Rea, Logic, and the Brain

Gert-Jan Lokhorst *

4 Indeterminism and Control: An Approach to the Problem of Luck

John Martin Fischer *

5 Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility: Proving ‘Can't Help Himself’ as a Narrow Bar to Criminal Liability

Henry T. Greely *

6 Madness, Badness, and Neuroimaging-Based Responsibility Assessments

Nicole A. Vincent *

7 Brain Images as Evidence in the Criminal Law

Adina L. Roskies and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong *

8 The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment

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

Lisa Claydon *

10 How (Some) Criminals Are Made

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

David Terracina *

12 Neuroscience and Emotional Harm in Tort Law: Rethinking the American Approach to Free-Standing Emotional Distress Claims

Betsy J. Grey *

13 Neuroscience and Ideology: Why Science Can Never Supply a Complete Answer for Adolescent Immaturity

June Carbone *

14 Adolescent Brain Science and Juvenile Justice

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

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

Dominic Wilkinson * and Charles Foster **

17 The Right to Silence Protects Mental Control*

Dov Fox **

18 Minds Apart: Severe Brain Injury, Citizenship, and Civil Rights

Joseph J. Fins *

19 Reciprocity Reciprocity and Neuroscience in Public Health Law

A. M. Viens *

20 Pathways to Persuasion: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Study and Practice of Law†

Cheryl Boudreau, * Seana Coulson, ** and Mathew D. McCubbins ***

21 The Juridical Role of Emotions in the Decisional Process of Popular Juries

Laura Capraro *

22 Possible Legal Implications of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Ethical Behaviour

Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman *

23 What Hobbes Left Out: The Neuroscience of Compassion and its Implications for a New Common-wealth

James D. Duffy *

24 Neuroscience and the Free Exercise of Religion

Steven Goldberg *

25 Steps toward a Constructivist and Coherentist Theory of Judicial Reasoning in Civil Law Tradition*

Enrique Cáceres **

26 Evolutionary Jurisprudence: The End of the Naturalistic Fallacy and the Beginning of Natural Reform?

Morris B. Hoffman *

27 The History of Scientific and Clinical Images in Mid-to-Late Nineteenth-Century American Legal Culture: Implications for Contemporary Law and Neuroscience

Daniel S. Goldberg *

28 Lost in Translation? An Essay on Law and Neuroscience

Stephen J. Morse *

End Matter

Index of Names

Index of Subjects