Authors

Owen D. Jones

The Future of Law and Neuroscience

Abstract

I was asked to speculate about where the field of Law and Neuroscience may be ten years from now. In that spirit (and while recognizing that the future rarely complies with our predictions) I attempt here some extrapolations. I first consider potential advances in the technologies for monitoring and manipulating brain states, the techniques for analyzing brain data, and the efforts to further integrate relevant fields. I then consider potential neurolaw developments relevant to: (1) detecting things law cares about; (2) individualizing developmental states and brain states; (3) evidence-based legal reforms; (4) legal decision-making; and (5) brain-brain interfaces.

Repository Citation

Owen D. Jones, The Future of Law and Neuroscience, 63 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1317 (2022), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol63/iss4/7