Hannah Wishart is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sunderland and a PhD Candidate at the School of Law, University of Manchester.Colleen M. Berryessa is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.

• Introduction; 1. Vulnerable defendants and neuroscience in courtrooms worldwide; 2. Offering neurotechnology to defendants: On vulnerability, voluntariness, and consent; 3. Vulnerable defendants: Redefining decision-making through the lenses of neuroscience, law and artificial intelligence; 4. Safeguarding the procedural rights of young defendants in England and Wales: The role of neuroscience; 5. Criminal insanity in Norwegian law between care and societal protection; 6. Social vulnerability on trial: The role of the neuroscience of trauma in recognising severe social adversity in sentencing

Hannah Wishart is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sunderland and a PhD Candidate at the School of Law, University of Manchester.Colleen M. Berryessa is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.

• Introduction; 1. Vulnerable defendants and neuroscience in courtrooms worldwide; 2. Offering neurotechnology to defendants: On vulnerability, voluntariness, and consent; 3. Vulnerable defendants: Redefining decision-making through the lenses of neuroscience, law and artificial intelligence; 4. Safeguarding the procedural rights of young defendants in England and Wales: The role of neuroscience; 5. Criminal insanity in Norwegian law between care and societal protection; 6. Social vulnerability on trial: The role of the neuroscience of trauma in recognising severe social adversity in sentencing

Hannah Wishart is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sunderland and a PhD Candidate at the School of Law, University of Manchester.Colleen M. Berryessa is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.

• Introduction; 1. Vulnerable defendants and neuroscience in courtrooms worldwide; 2. Offering neurotechnology to defendants: On vulnerability, voluntariness, and consent; 3. Vulnerable defendants: Redefining decision-making through the lenses of neuroscience, law and artificial intelligence; 4. Safeguarding the procedural rights of young defendants in England and Wales: The role of neuroscience; 5. Criminal insanity in Norwegian law between care and societal protection; 6. Social vulnerability on trial: The role of the neuroscience of trauma in recognising severe social adversity in sentencing