Michael Johnson

"The law is mainly about brains or, at least, the mind. If my fist hits your chin, what, if anything, I was thinking is crucial. If I was in an epileptic fit, if I was thrown from a car when I hit you, you don't convict me of a crime. ... ," says Stanford Law professor, Hank Greely in a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle. The article, by Reyhan Harmanci, discusses the use of brain scans in courts and the work that Greely is doing to "make sure advances in neuroscientific research are applied cautiously to the legal realm."

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Hank Greeley is a co-director of the MacArthur Foundation Project on Law and Neuroscience. He also directs both the Stanford Law Schools' Center for Law and the Biosciences and the neuroethics program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.