Legal Insanity and the Brain

Sofia Moratti is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Law of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Member of the Ethics Committee of the Neuroscience Area of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Dennis Patterson is Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and he holds a Chair in Legal Theory and International Trade at Swansea University, UK.

1. Introduction
Sofia Moratti and Dennis Patterson
2. The Neurobiology of Antisocial and Amoral Behaviour: Insights from Brain Science and Implications for Law
Cole Korponay and Michael Koenigs
3. ‘Neuroscepticism’ in the Courtroom: The Limited Role of Neuroscientific Evidence in Belgian Criminal Proceedings
Katrien Hanoulle and Frank Verbruggen
4. France. Is the Evidence Too Cerebral to Be Cartesian?
Rafael Encinas de Muñagorri and Claire Saas
5. ‘Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity’ in the Italian Jurisdiction. A Neuroscience Revolution?
Barbara Bottalico and Amedeo Santosuosso
6. Legal Insanity and Neurolaw in the Netherlands: Developments and Debates
Gerben Meynen
7. On the Abolition and Reintroduction of Legal Insanity in Sweden
Tova Bennet and Susanna Radovic
8. Abolishing the Insanity Verdict in the United Kingdom: A Better Balance Between Legal Rules and Scientific Understanding?
Lisa Claydon and Paul Catley
9. Legal Insanity in the Age of Neuroscience
Stephen J Morse