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The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology,
with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range
of human activities - many historically the province of those in
the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion,
consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge to law seems a
natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law
of course rests on mental processes. However, where some of those
activities can be studied with a certain amount of academic
detachment, what we discover about the brain has considerable
implications for how we consider and judge those who follow or
indeed flout the law - with inevitable social and political
consequences. There are real issues that the legal system will face
as neurobiological studies continue to relentlessly probe the human
mind - the motives for our actions, our decision making processes,
and such issues as free will and responsibility. This volume
represents a first serious attempt to address questions of law as
reflecting brain activity, emphasizing that it is the organization
and functioning of the brain that determines how we enact and obey
laws. It applies the most recent developments in brain science to
debates over criminal responsibility, cooperation and punishment,
deception, moral and legal judgment, property, evolutionary
psychology, law and economics, and decision-making by judges and
juries. Written and edited by leading specialists from a range of
disciplines, the book presents a groundbreaking and challenging new
look at human behaviour.
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