.... As the law is constantly evolving, there is space for growth in this area, especially with the advancement in neuroscience, which can offer more insight into sleepwalkers’ and psychopaths’ brains. In approaching the complex questions of whether and how the law should excuse sleepwalking killers...

... as someone with serious mental deficiencies or as a normal person who got caught up in abnormal circumstances. We suggest that judges and juries use neuroscience data to support their preconceived notions of what “bad” women are like, even as defense counsel presents these data to support claims...

...Jamie D. Brooks In Miller v. Alabama , the Supreme Court appealed to neuroscience studies concerning the diminished capacities of adolescents to justify leniency in the sentencing of juvenile offenders. Reflecting on the recent proliferation of juvenile proportionality cases, the Court noted “[o]ur...

... 2014 by the Regents of the University of California. 2014 Neuroscience consent adolescence statutory rape decision making sexual harassment THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING IN HIGH-RISK YOUTH AND THE LAW OF CONSENT TO SEX Jennifer Ann Drobac* and Leslie A. Hulvershorn** Under certain...

...Emad H. Atiq Do recent results in neuroscience and psychology that portray our choices as predetermined threaten to undermine the assumptions about “free will” that drive criminal law? This article answers in the affirmative, and offers a novel argument for the transformative import of modern...