Does neuroscience prove that free will does not exist?

Abstract

Dutch criminal and civil law agree that one cannot be convicted of a crime unless one is responsible for it. And it's natural to think that one cannot be responsible for an act unless one freely decided to do it. So if free will does not exist, this might have drastic consequences for our legal system. Since many legal codes are based on similar assumptions, the debate about free will appears to have enormous societal relevance worldwide.