When the Brain Is No Longer in the Courtroom
A physician's reading of Italy's Roggero case: what Sapolsky's neurobiology of acute stress can illuminate about a moment that lasted sixty seconds, and the honest limits of what science can tell a courtroom.
The Trevallion Case and the Two Separations
Why removing a child from an environment is not the same legal act as separating that child from a parent — and why conflating them matters. A reading of the Italian "family in the woods" case in the frame of proportionality, evidence and harm.