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Editor: Barbara Bottalico

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-techniques before Courts in criminal and civil trials.
This section aims to be an observatory on the international literature about the impact of Neuroscience on the Law and on the Case-Law in which neurotechniques played a key role. Anyone who would be interested in collaborating on this initiative, or sending comments or materials, please write an e-mail to the following addresses:
enlsc@unipv.it or barbara.bottalico@unipv-lawtech.eu .

 
 

Spotlight

LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE WINTER SCHOOL 2011


The Albertani case

Neuroscience and Law in a Nutshell by B. Bottalico

The US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, meeting March 2011: Ethics of Genetics and Neuroimaging Testing

Since 2010, the European Centre ECLT coordinates the international research project “European Association for Neuroscience and Law”, whose partners are scholars and research centers from all over Europe, USA and Canada.

EANL Mission Statement

Report meeting Pavia-Milano September 2010


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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