How will courts use neuroscience in sexual predator and death penalty cases?

What can neuroscience offer the courts that traditional social science cannot?

Can neuroimaging data enhance understandings of criminal responsibility?

MCLE approval pending.

Drafts of authors' papers are available at stlr.stanford.edu/symposium.html, and there's an open blog to which any of you can contribute.

AGENDA:

• 8:30 AM: Breakfast & Registration, Stanford Law School
• 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks: Hon. Jeremy Fogel, United States District Court, Northern District of California
• 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM: Panel 1: Neuroscientific Evidence
• 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Panel 2 - Neuroscience and Criminal Procedure
• 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch Presentation - An Overview of Neuroscience Relevant to the Law
• 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM: Panel 3 - Liability and Responsibility
• 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Panel 4 - Psychopathy, Recidivism and Incarceration
• 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM: Panel 5 – Ethical Implications of Emerging Neuroscience
• 4:45 PM: Closing Remarks, Prof. Hank Greely, Stanford Law School

Sponsors: Townsend & Townsend & Crew LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP