All Articles tagged mental competency

• Justice Commentaries
  July 17, 2018 EDT
  NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL COMPETENCY: CURRENT USES AND FUTURE POTENTIAL
  John B. Meixner Jr.

  There is little literature discussing how neuroscience data, at our current level of understanding, might be able to aid in determining competency. This article begins to fill that gap.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 02, 2016 EDT
  MENTAL COMPETENCY LAW AND PLEA BARGAINING: A NEUROPHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITIQUE
  Robert SchehrChelsea French

  This article argues that the jurisprudential assumption that human beings are rational actors capable of making decisions that maximize their interests is, when exposed to social and natural science, flawed.