I've posted before about the upcoming annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society. Here's the link to the current schedule, and here's the link to register.
Via Hank Greely, here's the most up-to-date information on the law and neuroscience portion of the program:
This panel will focus on neuroscience in real cases. We've got three speakers, each of whom was involved as a professional in one of the iconic cases involving law and neuroscience.
Steve Greenberg is the lawyer who introduced fMRI evidence of psychopathy into a capital sentencing case (the Dugan case in Illinois). There's a fascinating write-up of that case in Nature magazine - 464 Nature 340 (Mar. 18, 2010).
Houston Gordon is the lawyer who tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce for the defense some fMRI lie detection evidence (from Cephos, one of the two companies in this market) into a federal criminal trial. This led to a 2 day evidentiary hearing and an extensive written opinion (United States v. Semrau, in Westlaw or Lexis).
Russell Swerdlow is a neurologist who was the treating physician for a man who pleaded guilty to sexual molestation of his 12 year old step-daughter after a year or so of increasing interest in pornography. Just before sentencing, the man was found to have a tumor the size of a chicken egg pressing on his left frontal lobe. When the tumor was removed, the defendant reported that his urges disappeared. He was released on probation; about 10 months later, his urges returned. So had the tumor. When the tumor was surgical removed again, so were the urges. See the case report at 60 Arch. Neurol. 437 (2003).
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