Overview
Recent developments in the cognitive sciences, particularly the emergence of neurotechnologies and their potential applications in a variety of contexts, have prompted a debate on what freedoms and rights people have in relation to their brains and minds. Lawyers and philosophers are especially interested in the possibilities offered by the neurosciences in conducting risk assessments and risk management. Minds, Freedoms and Rights deepens our understanding of these legal issues by investigating the human rights that relate to the mind and by exploring their implications for possible uses for neurotechnology for criminal rehabilitation or 'neurorehabilitation'. By harnessing and integrating both legal and ethical perspectives, the authors establish possible uses of neurorehabilitation that are cutting-edge yet simultaneously protect and respect human rights and freedoms. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Full Product Details
Author: Sjors Ligthart (Utrecht University) ,
Emma Dore-Horgan (University College Cork) ,
Gerben Meynen (Utrecht University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781009486330
ISBN 10: 1009486330
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 November 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Sjors Ligthart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Law at Tilburg University and postdoctoral researcher in the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University. He is the author of Coercive Brain-Reading in Criminal Justice: An Analysis of European Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press 2022) and co-editor of Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice and Security (Palgrave MacMillan 2021). Emma Dore-Horgan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, working on the research project 'Law and Ethics of Neurotechnology in Criminal Justice'. She is an honorary research associate of the Uehiro Oxford Institute for Practical Ethics and has published research with Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. Gerben Meynen is Professor of Ethics, in particular bioethics, in the Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, and Professor of Forensic Psychiatry in the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University. He is the author of Legal Insanity: Explorations in Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics (Springer, 2016) and he co-edited Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice and Security (Palgrave MacMillan 2021) and Brain and Crime (Elsevier 2023).
