How will brain-monitoring technology influence the practice of law?
Neurotechnology can be implanted in the brain but it may also be external to the body in the form of a headset, wristband or helmet.
Our latest horizon scanning report, Neurotechnology, law and the legal profession, sets out the:
- challenges and opportunities that developments in neurotechnology may bring for the profession, and
- impact it may have on cognitive performance and the way lawyers work
How could neurotechnology affect you?
Our report unpacks:
- what neurotechnology is
- its emerging ripples of impact in society, and
- the potential challenges, opportunities and questions facing the legal profession and the practice of law
We look at the legal implications of neurotechnology developments including:
Some tricky questions for the law will emerge, such as: “where do people end and the devices they use begin?”
Moving further into the future, it might be worth considering the possibility of lawyer and technology becoming less distinct than they are now.
Who wrote the report?
For this report we invited Dr Allan McCay to consider the emerging impacts of neurotechnology on law and the legal profession.
Dr McCay is deputy director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology and an academic fellow at the University of Sydney Law School.
He was named by Australasian Lawyer as one of the most influential lawyers of 2021 for his work in neurotechnology and the law.