Neurolaw is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nita Farahany, Robert O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Nita Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. This wide-ranging conversation examines the growing impact of modern neuroscience on the law, deepening our understanding of a wide range of issues, from legal responsibility to the American Constitution’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Using our Heads, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
- Neurolegal Beginnings – From cadavers to courtrooms
- Framing the Issues – Atypicalities, compulsion and plea bargaining
- Ineffective Legal Counsel – Waking up to neuroscience
- Taking the Fifth – Neuroscience as a legal lens
- Moral Ownership – Neuroscience and responsibility
- Administering Bioethics – Comparing different approaches
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Neurolaw is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About Law, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
