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42 Akron L. Rev. 687 (2009)
Law and the Revolution in Neuroscience: An Early Look at the Field

handle is hein.journals/aklr42 and id is 693 raw text is: LAW AND THE REVOLUTION IN NEUROSCIENCE: AN EARLY LOOK AT THE FIELD Henry T Greely* This piece is a lightly cleaned-up version of the keynote address I delivered at the University of Akron School of Law's Neuroscience, Law & Government Symposium. It was intended, at the symposium, as one attempt at an overview of the field and remains such in this publication. It is only lightly footnoted, mainly with references to specific studies or cases discussed in the text or to other pieces I have written, where more complete discussions, and citations, can be found.' Look at my sweater. How many colors does it have? Listen to my voice. Am I a tenor, or a baritone or a bass? Feel the chair. Think about the feeling of the chair on your back and your bottom and now twitch the big toe on your right foot. Now ask yourself, what is the speaker doing here?2 The short answer is that I am trying to demonstrate the most fundamental and unsettling reality pushing the field of law and neuroscience. Everything that you just perceived, saw, heard, felt, or * Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics, Stanford University. The author would like to thank Professor Jane Moriarty and the University of Akron School of Law for hosting this stimulating meeting, and his research assistant, Mark M. Hernandez, for his thorough efforts. 1. Several years ago I published two other pieces that provide some overview of these issues, although, for various reasons, I prefer the organization in this piece to that of the earlier discussions. See Henry T. Greely, The Social Consequences of Advances in Neuroscience: Legal Problems; Legal Perspectives, in NEUROETHICS: DEFINING THE ISSUES IN THEORY, PRACTICE, AND POLICY 245-63 (Judy Illes ed., 2006); Henry T. Greely, Prediction, Litigation, Privacy, and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience, in NEUROSCIENCE AND THE LAW: BRAIN, MIND, AND THE SCALES OF JUSTICE 114-56 (Brent Garland ed., 2004). 2. This introduction made more sense during the live delivery of these comments. For some of this list of requests, you readers will just have to use your imaginations-which also exist only because of the firings of your neurons.

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