Law, Mind and Brain (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough; Law, responsibility and the brain, Dean Mobbs, Hakwan C. Lau, Owen D. Jones and Christopher D. Frith; Brain imaging and courtroom evidence: on the admissibility and persuasiveness of fMRI, Neal Feigenson; Mind the gap: problems of mind, body and brain in the criminal law, Lisa Claydon; Self-exclusion agreements: should we be free not to be free to ruin ourselves? Gambling, self-exclusion agreements and the brain, Florian Wagner-Von Papp; The problems with blaming, Theodore Y. Blumoff; Why distinguish 'mental' and 'physical' illness in law of involuntary treatment?, John Dawson and George Szmukler; A stable paradigm: revisiting capacity, vulnerability and the rights and claims of adolescents after Roper v. Simmons, Catherine J. Ross; Thinking like a child: legal implications of recent developments in brain research for juvenile offenders, Katharine Hunt Federle and Paul Skendelas; Legal implications of memory-dampening, Adam Kolber; Reframing the good death: enhancing choice in dying, neuroscience, end-of-life research and the potential of psychedelics in palliative care, Robin Mackenzie; Equality in exchange revisited from an evolutionary (genetic and cultural) point of view, Bart Du Laing; Just (and efficient?) compensation for government expropriations, Jeffrey Evans Stake; Examining the biological bases of family law: lessons to be learned from the evolutionary analysis of law, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn; Why do good people steal intellectual property?, Oliver R.Goodenough and Gregory Decker; Cues in the courtroom: when do they improve jurors' decisions?, Cheryl Boudreau; Reflections on reading: words and pictures and law, Christina Spiesel; Index.