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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

The use of social science-of psychology in particular-to inform legal theory and practice is
fast becoming the latest craze in the pages of legal academia. 1 Books and symposia have …

This article argues that the study of legal regulation can be further developed through an
analysis of emotions because it can bring into sharper focus the social nature of regulation …

It is often assumed that the anger, outrage, and other strong emotions provoked by repellent
crimes interfere with rational deliberation. There is some truth to the notion that heinous …