Distinguished Lecture Series: Stephen J. Morse (Philadelphia)
Please note: There will be a Meet the Speaker session with Professor Morse for doctoral students on Friday, 3 December, at 10.00. (Lounge, 1st floor, next to Cafeteria, Luisenstraße 56) Abstract: This lecture will address the potential contributions of neuroscience to normal legal evolution and the possibility that neuroscience will revolutionize the law, especially the criminal law. It suggests that the contributions to traditional legal doctrine, policy and practice depend upon “translating” the mechanistic concepts of neuroscience into the folk psychological concepts of the law and that such contributions are likely to be modest for the foreseeable future. It also proposes that neuroscience is unlikely to produce radical revisions to law and that most suggestions that it will are driven by a normative agenda rather than by the necessary implications of the science. http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/smorse/ Zertifiziert durch Ärztekammer Berlin: VNR 2761102010091970005, 2 Punkte All are welcome!
