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Editor: Barbara Bottalico and Maria Laura Fiorina
The interactions between Neuroscience and Law is a relatively new field of study, that in recent years has attracted the international community’s attention thanks to its capacity to involve fundamental concepts as free will, responsibility and individual boundaries. The development of a vivid debate, often called “Neurolaw”, has highlighted various challenges offered by the last neuroscientific findings to the national legal systems: it has dealt mostly with philosophical questions about free will, and legal enquiries about responsibility and the relationship between brain abnormalities, violence and crime, with special attention to the use of new neuro-
This section aims to be an observatory on the international literature about the impact of Neuroscience on the Law and on the Case-
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The European Centre ECLT is active in the field of Neuroscience and the Law since 2008:
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ECLT Resources
Since 2010, the European Centre ECLT coordinates the international research project “European Association for Neuroscience and Law”, -
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE WINTER SCHOOL 2012-
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE WINTER SCHOOL 2011-
The Albertani case
Neuroscience and Law in a Nutshell by B. Bottalico
Janus -
Other Resources
"The pediatrician abused of the child. The defense: it is because of the brain tumor" (Avvenire, 22nd november 2012, in Italian)
Some observations concerning the expertise before the judge's evaluation of it
"Insight: Neuroscience in court: my brain made me do it" (Yahoo news, August 29th 2012)
"Return of the Pedophilic Brain Tumor: Acquired versus Innate Pedophilia" (The Neuroethics Blog, September 11th 2012)
My Brain Made Me Do It -
Announcement: full-
Neurolaw: brains in the courtroom (The Neuroethics Blog, 09-
Events
"The brain stands trial" -
Next meeting of the European Association for Neuroscience and Law -
World Science Festival -
Brain Forum -
Neuroscience in European and North-
Cafè Scientifique “The cases of Mr. Dugan and Mr. Abdelmalek” -
Law&Science Young Scholars Informal Symposium -
Neuroscienze e Diritto: la nuova frontiera -
Biomedical Sciences and the Law: a dialogue between disciplines, cultures and languages -
Brain Imaging between psychiatry and the law -