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LAW 3701 - Law and the Brain


This course will introduce the relatively new and growing field of “neurolaw”[1] by covering key dilemmas and cases at the intersection of neuroscience and the law that include the neuroscience of criminal culpability, brain-based lie detection, memory enhancement, emotions, decision making, adolescent brain development, and psychopathy. In doing so, this seminar will consider issues such as what adolescents, psychopaths, and white-collar fraud artists may be thinking? Why emotional trauma for victims of abuse lasts so long? Why eye-witness memory is so poor? And how can one get into the heads of the judge and jury?  The seminar will explore how the legal system can and should respond to such questions given the new insights provided by neuroscience. No science background is required for this course

 

[1] Neuroscience, as used herein, is analogous to brain science or study of the brain.  The term neuroscience derives from the word “neuron”, which is the special type of cell that our brains rely on to function.  The phrase “neurolaw” is used to refer to the application of neuroscience findings to law, as broadly defined.

Prerequisites & Notes
None.

Credits: 2 or 3





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