(Papers to be published in the Duquesne Law Review)
With the development of new technologies in the last several decades to visualize brain structure and function, neuroscience studies have proliferated in laboratories around the world. The relationship between law and neuroscience has also developed at a remarkable rate, with scholars examining this interdisciplinary field. There is already a wealth of forensic neuroscience scholarship, a wide range of cases involving neuroscience evidence, and even a new casebook on neuroscience and law. This panel will address the intersections of neuroscience and scholarship, courtroom evidence, and teaching. The panelists, all well-versed in the area of forensic neuroscience (or “neurolaw” as some call it), will explain some foundations of neuroscience and will discuss scholarship about forensic neuroscience, the use of neuroscience in the courtroom, and neuroscience as a subject in law teaching. We anticipate a robust discussion with a great deal of interaction among the panelists and the audience.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.