Word: legalism
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Just in time. As brain science becomes increasingly sophisticated, the moral and legal quandaries it poses threaten to proliferate into every part of our lives. And as the racism experiment makes clear, brain imaging has already started to do so. Even in their current state, brain scans may be able to reveal, without our consent, hidden things about who we are and what we think and feel. "I don't have a problem with looking into your brain," says Alan Leshner, former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and current head of the American Association for the Advancement...
...Brain scans may actually give better results. But brain scans are also much more powerful and far more invasive, and the law is murky on whether they can be performed without our consent. We may feel instinctively that we have a right to brain privacy, but feelings have no legal standing...
States of Gay Union Legal linkage in New Jersey...
Starting Feb. 19, same-sex couples in N.J. can obtain civil-union licenses--and get the legal benefits of married couples. It's the third state to do so, but clergy can decline to perform the ceremony...
...legal experts attacking Stimson’s comments do not seem to be encountering much opposition themselves, a fact not surprising to Kagan. She herself has received no criticism for signing the letter...