The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms

Book Talk with Kevin Davis

November 10, 2024

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Free, RSVP Required

Kevin Davis, author of the The Brain Defense, will discuss how neuroscience is being used more frequently in the courtroom, and whether criminal behavior can be attributed to brain injuries, disease, genetics or other abnormalities. Should those with brain injuries that result in changes in personality be considered less culpable than others in the eyes of the law?

About the author:
Kevin Davis is an award-winning journalist, author, magazine writer and editor. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, Reader’s Digest and many other publications.

He is the author of three non-fiction books, The Wrong Man, Defending the Damned and, most recently, The Brain Defense. Davis has also authored eight nonfiction children’s books.

Davis is currently managing editor of the ABA Journal, the national legal affairs magazine of the American Bar Association. He also teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Studies