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We get a version of the same message fairly regularly. A student finds Mind on Trial, reads a few posts, and then asks some variation of the same question: how do I actually learn this? Where do I start? Is there a way to go through this with other people? We built the answer. Starting today, Mind on Trial is releasing a free, structured 8-week Introduction to Neurolaw curriculum for high school students, school clubs, independent learners, and educators who want to bring thi

Today, on International Youth Day, Mind on Trial is announcing something we have been building toward since the beginning. This fall, we will host the first Neurolaw Youth Summit, a free virtual event open to students worldwide. Here is what it is: students submit a real legal case where brain science should have mattered but didn't, or did. Our editorial team selects the strongest submissions. Selected students present their case analysis live using the Neuro-Legal Case Anal

If you have been reading Mind on Trial and thinking you have something to add, you probably do. Mind on Trial publishes student writing at the intersection of neuroscience, behavior, and law. That is a wide space. It includes case analyses, science explainers, policy arguments, personal essays, and research breakdowns. If your thinking touches any part of that space, we want to hear from you. Here is what we are looking for: Case analyses. Pick a real case where brain science

A poem about forgetting and a neuroscience paper about memory are asking the same question. They just speak different languages. For too long those two languages have lived in separate rooms – the scientist in one, the artist in another, both circling the same truths about what it means to be human without ever quite meeting in the middle. Open Verdict exists because we think that separation is a mistake. And we are done with it. Starting today, Mind on Trial's literary journ