"This book examines the legal boundaries of non-consensual brain-reading in criminal justice. Focusing on human rights such as privacy and freedom of thought and expression, the book informs lawyers and ethicists debating the legal implications of emerging neurotechnology and advises policymakers and judges in specifying the law to neurotechnology"--

Sjors Ligthart is assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Law at Tilburg Law School and postdoctoral researcher at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University His research interests include human rights over the mind and the legal implications of brain-reading, neurointerventions, virtual reality, and persuasive technologies in criminal justice. He is co-editor of Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security (2021).

1. Setting the stage: Why 'reading' brains raises fundamental legal questions for European human rights law; 2. Brain-reading technologies: Their legally relevant features; 3. Coercive brain-reading and the prohibition of ill-treatment; 4. Coercive brain-reading and the right to respect for private life; 5. Coercive brain-reading and the rights to freedom of thought and to freedom of expression; 6. Coercive brain-reading and the privilege against self-incrimination; 7. Procedural implications of brain-reading in breach of the ECHR: Excluding unlawfully obtained evidence?; 8. Discussion and perspectives: Emerging challenges for European human rights law; 9. Concluding observations; References; Index.