This handbook, the result of a three-year multidisciplinary initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation, brings lawyers, neuroscie

Law regulates human behaviour, a phenomenon about which neuroscience has much to say. Neuroscience can tell us whether a defendant suffers from a brain abnormal

The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been trigger

Cognitive neuroscientists have deepened our understanding of the complex relationship between mind and brain and complicated the relationship between mental att

Adopting a broadly compatibilist approach, this volume's authors argue that the behavioral and mind sciences do not threaten the moral foundations of legal resp