1." Law and emotions" scholarship explores the reciprocal relations between emotions and
the law. It reflects pluralism along several dimensions:(1) attributes of cognition: law and …

The field of law and emotion draws from a range of disciplines in the sciences, social
sciences, and humanities to shed light on the emotions that pervade the legal system. It …

Understanding the contributions and the implications of law and emotion scholarship
requires an acknowledgement of the different approaches within it. A significant part of law …

Legal thought has been slow to engage the emotions. Classical legal scholarship, premised
on a dichotomy between reason and passion, steered a wide course around the emotions in …

Much of the behavior that law regulates is emotional—think of the murder of an adulterous
spouse, the kidnapping of a child by a parent denied custody, or the daubing of paint on a …

Scholars from diverse fields have begun to study the intersection of emotion and law. The
notion that reason and emotion are cleanly separable—and that law rightly privileges and …

The Passions of Law is the first anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and
ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. Lying at the intersection of …

At least two bodies of legal scholarship have recently challenged the primacy of the
traditional rational-actor, law and economics approach to law and policy. 2 The first, taking a …

Emotions are ubiquitous in criminal law, as they are in life. But how do they, and how should
they, affect legal assessment? Should the law be more sympathetic to defendants who are …

Recent work in cognitive and social psychology makes it clear that emotion plays a critical
role in public perceptions of risk, but doesn't make clear exactly what that role is or why it …