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Neuroscience and the law, now and going forward

Via The Situationist, check out this excellent 10-minute interview with Stanford law prof Hank Greeley regarding an issue that's increasingly interested me as a result working as Policy Director for the Innocence Project of Texas: The intersection between law and modern neuroscience.This is one of the best, brief discussions I've heard of the current status on how modern neuroscience is being used in modern criminal and civil courtrooms and what may be possible in the future.Greeley calls "wreckless at this point" (at least) two companies which are already out selling "lie detection" services as potetial expert witnesses using fmri's. But the evidence, he says, at this point does not justify anyone buying such services or admitting it in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).