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"Law, Mind, And Brain" Book Coming Soon

By Adam Kolber

More info here.  I spoke at the underlying conference at University College London a couple of years ago and I'm pleased to see the book is slated to be available in March.  The TOC is below (forgive the formatting).

 

1 Introduction 1

Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough

2 Law, Responsibility and the Brain 5

Owen D. Jones, and Christopher D. Frith

3 Brain Imaging and Courtroom Evidence: On the Admissibility

and Persuasiveness of fMRI??23

Neal Feigenson

4 Mind the Gap: Problems of Mind, Body and Brain in the Criminal Law 55

Lisa Claydon

5 Self-Exclusion Agreements: Should We Be Free not to Be Free to Ruin Ourselves? Gambling, Self-Exclusion Agreements and the Brain 81

Florian Wagner-von Papp

6 The Problems with Blaming 127

Theodore Y. Blumoff

7 Why Distinguish ?Mental? and ?Physical? Illness in the Law of Involuntary Treatment? 173

John Dawson and George Szmukler

8 A Stable Paradigm: Revisiting Capacity, Vulnerability

and the Rights Claims of Adolescents after

v. 183

 

Catherine J. Ross

9 Thinking Like a Child: Legal Implications of Recent Developments in Brain Research for Juvenile Offenders 199

Katherine Hunt Federle and Paul Skendelas

10 Legal Implications of Memory-Dampening 215

Adam Kolber

11 Reframing the Good Death: Enhancing Choice in Dying,

Neuroscience, End-of-Life Research and the Potential of Psychedelics in Palliative Care 239

Robin Mackenzie

12 Equality in Exchange Revisited: From an Evolutionary (Genetic and Cultural) Point of View 267

Bart Du Laing

 

Expropriations 299

Jeffrey Evans Stake

14 Examining the Biological Bases of Family Law: Lessons

to be Learned for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law 323

June Carbone and Naomi Cahn

15 Why Do Good People Steal Intellectual Property? 345

Oliver R. Goodenough and Gregory Decker, J.D.

16 Cues in the Courtroom: When Do They Improve Jurors? Decisions? 373

Cheryl Boudreau

17 Reflections on Reading: Words and Pictures and Law 39

1

Christina Spiesel

13 Just (and Efficient?) Compensation for Governmental

 

 

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).