In recent decades, advances in neurotechnology have made it possible to collect and analyze neural data and changes in brain activity. This progress is proving to be fundamental to treating patients with neurological diseases. Still, it also brings with it inevitable reflection on the ethical and social consequences of the widespread use of such technologies, particularly concerning the mental privacy, identity and freedom of action of human beings. The purpose of this Special Workshop is to encourage academic discussion, from an exclusively legal perspective and based on an expository explanation, of the concern with the legal protection of the mind in the international academic debate, considering the novelty of the topic and the scarcity of literary references, to explore its regulatory stage in the world and the possibilities of its standardization, as a way of creating theoretical bases for the discussion of the topic, which tends to gain more and more projection in the technosocial reality experienced today. During the Special Workshop we will discuss topics like:

• Neurorights and the future of democracy
• Cognitive liberty
• Limits of personal agency
• Neurodivergence and neuro enhancement
• Privacy of neural data
• Abuse of neurotechnological power and its legal consequences
• Neurorights and tort law
• Ethics and brain-machine interfaces
• Transhumanism, equality and liberty

Submissions with a short abstract (up to 400 words) should be sent as soon as possible to:
• Andrea Naccache, PhD (andrea@andreanaccache.com);
• Camila Pintarelli, PhD (ckpintarelli@gmail.com);
• Thiago de Mello Azevedo Guilherme, PhD (tmazevedo@uol.com.br);
• Eduardo Tomasevicius Filho, PhD (tomasevicius@usp.br).