Law, mind and brain / edited by Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough.

Originated in an interdisciplinary colloquium held in the Law Faculty of University College London (UCL) in 2006 -- pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Introduction; Law, responsibility and the brain, Mobbs, Lau, Jones and Frith; Brain imaging and courtroom evidence on the admissibility and persuasiveness, Feigenson; Mind the gap: problems of mind, body and brain in the criminal law, Claydon; Self-exclusion agreements: should we be free not to be free to ruin ourselves?, Wagner-Von Papp; The problems with blaming, Blumoff; Why distinguish \'mental\' and \'physical\' illness in law of involuntary treatment?, Dawson and Szmukler; A stable paradigm: revisiting capacity, vulnerability and the rights and claims of adolescents after Roper v. Simmons, Ross; Thinking like a child: legal implications of recent developments in brain research for juvenile offenders, Federle and Skendelas; Legal implications of memory dampening, Kolber; Reframing the good death: enhancing choice in dying, neuroscience, end of life research and the potential of psychedelics in palliative care, Mackenzie; Equality in exchange revisited from an evolutionary (genetic and cultural) point of view, Du Laing; Just (and efficient?) compensation for government expropriations, Stake; Examining the biological bases of family law: lessons to be learned from the evolutionary analysis of law, Carbon and Cahn; Why do good people steal intellectual property?, Goodenough and Decker; Cues in the courtroom: when do they improve jurors\' decisions?, Boudreau; Reflections on reading: words and pictures and law, Spiesel; Index.

This edited collection brings together contributions from experts working in criminal behaviour and justice. International and interdisciplinary in approach the authors are drawn from law, criminal justice and medicine.