We thank Adam for the opportunity to post here about our recently published coursebook, Law and Neuroscience. The book is published by Aspen and co-authored by Owen Jones (Vanderbilt), Jeffrey Schall (Vanderbilt), and Francis Shen (Univ. of Minnesota). The book has four main purposes:

• to introduce readers to how brain science is (and is not) already being used in a number of legal contexts;
• to provide a user-friendly foundation for understanding how the human brain works, and how new techniques are being used to study, monitor and manipulate the brain;
• to examine pathways by which neuroscience may aid, or harm, the legal system; and
• to help students think critically about the present status and future possibilities of the law/neuroscience intersection.

The book includes engaging, informative, and provocative excerpts from cases, commentary, scientific articles, and news accounts. Dispersed through each chapter are notes and questions designed to challenge, provoke, inform, and inspire. You can download chapter one for free to see what the text looks like, and if you’re an instructor please email us so that we can help you obtain an instructor’s review copy.

– See more at: kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2015/07/teaching-law-and-neuroscience.html#sthash.dnX2P18R.dpuf

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