Legal Commentary

Someday, we may be able to pharmaceutically dampen or erase traumatic memories from the recent past.  Such technologies raise many interesting legal and ethical questions.  On occasion, though, questions about memory erasure already arise.  In this four-page article in the journal Neuroethics, I discuss a real-life case of intentional memory erasure and some of the issues it raises.   The case reveals why the contours of our "freedom of memory"--our limited bundle of rights to control our own memories and be free of outside control--already warrant some attention.