Neuroscientific evidence in the Polish law
The paper discusses the problem of admissibility of scientific and especially neuroscientific
evidence in the Polish legal system. In the first part of the paper there
are discussed the methods of neuroimaging and there use in legal proceedings.
Then, the author focuses on the criteria of admissibility of scientific evidence in
Polish and American legal system. In the next part, the author attempts to identify
the threats connected with the misuse of the neuroimaging evidence in the
courtrooms. The last part contains a set of suggestions on how to change the Polish
legal system in order to prepare it for the use of the neuroscientific evidence.
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