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Aspen Ideas Festival

The 2007 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival

'The Brain on the Stand'

Broadcast: Midday, 08/22/2007, 12:00 p.m.

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George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen says progress in neuroscience and technology has the potential to radically transform the legal system.

During a speech at this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival he titled "The Brain on the Stand," Rosen discussed how neuroscience will challenge some of our core ideas about justice and law.

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