While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there
have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury …

Research on the effects of emotions and moods on judgments of legal responsibility and
blame is reviewed. Emotions and moods may influence decision makers in 3 ways: by …

In this article, Judge Richard A. Posner presents the first comprehensive economic analysis
of the law of evidence. The article is presented in three parts. First, Judge Posner proposes …

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of
interdisciplinary legal studies—the application of the social sciences and the humanities to …

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 …

Judges assume that gruesome evidence can influence juror verdicts, but little is known
about the manner in which the influence is manifested. In a 2× 3 study that varied the …

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual
digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges …

Recent developments in the neuropsychology of criminal behavior have given rise to
concerns that neuroimaging evidence (such as MRI and functional MRI [fMRI] images) could …

Last Term the Supreme Court decided a rather dry yet important case involving
interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.'In essence, the question before the Court in …

The current framework for sorting the probative from the prejudicial considers emotion to be
the hallmark of unfair prejudice. Emotions elicited by evidence are thought to" inflame" the …