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neuroscience and law  

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  • Neuroscience is in the midst of a revolution that will have substantial consequences for law, both broadly through the ways it will change society and directly through its immediate applications to the legal system. This revolution is part of the general explosion of understanding about biology, but the unique importance of the brain to human behavior, and hence human society and law, makes the revolution in neuroscience crucial. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Neuroscience and Law]

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