Distinguished Lecture Series: "Lost in Translation? The future of law and neuroscience"
Speaker Stephen J. MORSE (Philadelphia)
Date 2 December 2010, 18:30
Location
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1
Festsaal
10117 Berlin
Abstract: This lecture will address the potential contributions of neuroscience to normal legal evolution and the possibility that neuroscience will revolutionize the law, especially the criminal law. It suggests that the contributions to traditional legal doctrine, policy and practice depend upon “translating” the mechanistic concepts of neuroscience into the folk psychological concepts of the law and that such contributions are likely to be modest for the foreseeable future. It also proposes that neuroscience is unlikely to produce radical revisions to law and that most suggestions that it will are driven by a normative agenda rather than by the necessary implications of the science.
http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/smorse/