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About the guest lecture听

Professor 听is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law at the听. He also holds the position Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at听, and is the Associate Director of Center for Neuroscience & Society at the听. Professor Morse is also part of the research team in the听DIMENSIONS project. He is therefore coming to the University of Bergen to share his expertise听in听legal philosophy annd听psychology/neuroscience in law.

The lecture addresses the current relevance of behavioral neuroscience to the law, especially to issues of criminal responsibility and competence. The essential thesis is that, despite the exaggerated claims of some 鈥渘euroexuberants,鈥� at present neuroscience offers extremely limited contributions to criminal justice and it will not justify radical reforms.听

Topics to be addressed include an explanation of the legal doctrines at stake, the sources of the often inflated claims for the legal relevance of neuroscience, the scientific status of behavioral neuroscience, and the two radical challenges to current conceptions of criminal responsibility that neuroscience allegedly poses: determinism and the death of agency. The question of the specific relevance of neuroscience to criminal law doctrine, practice and institutions is considered, followed by a discussion of how neuroscience evidence is being used in criminal cases in five different countries.听 Brief mention is made of some areas warranting modest optimism.

The lecture is arranged by the DIMENSIONS project and the Research group for Criminal听Law and Criminal Procedure.

An open invitation to the guest lecture can be found here.听

For any听inquiries please contact research assistant Victoria Westrum.