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This illuminating Research Handbook analyses the role that emotions play, and ought to play, in legal reasoning and practice, rejecting the simplistic distinction between reason and emotion. International expert contributors take multidisciplinary approaches, drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, literary theory, psychology, history, and sociology to examine the role of a wide range of emotions across a variety of legal contexts. Chapters consider how the rich tapestry of human emotion impacts legal actors, influences legal doctrine, and shapes the dynamics of legal institutions. Moving beyond legal contexts traditionally considered rife with emotion such as the criminal law and jury trials, the Handbook explores how emotion relates to contracts, property, bankruptcy, international law, and truth and reconciliation commissions. It also reflects on the importance of research methodologies, theories, and techniques for assessing the role of emotion in the legal arena. Surveying the depth and complexity of law and emotion across a panoply of legal actions, institutional contexts, and legal doctrines, this Handbook will be critical reading for academics and students of legal theory and legal philosophy. Its detailed examination of emotions in the practice of private, public, international, and criminal law will also be beneficial for legal officials and practitioners.

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Author:   Susan A. Bandes ,  Jody L. Madeira ,  Kathryn D. Temple ,  Emily Kidd White
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781788119078

ISBN 10:   178811907
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   27 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction 1 Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lyneé Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple and Emily Kidd White PART I FOUNDATIONS PSYCHOLOGY 1 Lay conceptions of emotion in law 15 Terry A. Maroney NEUROSCIENCE 2 The evolving neuroscience of emotion: challenges and opportunities for integration with the law 27 Maria Gendron PHILOSOPHY 3 Law’s sentiments 44 Robin West PEDAGOGY 4 “Whose body is this?” on the role of emotion in teaching and learning law 62 Gillian Calder PART II EMOTIONS 5 When souls shudder: A brief history of disgust and the law 80 Carlton Patrick 6 Retribution: Not anger but respect for dignity 94 Jeffrie G. Murphy 7 Closure in the criminal courtroom: The birth and strange career of an emotion 102 Susan A. Bandes 8 The aptness of anger 119 Amia Srinivasan 9 Remorse: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on how law makes use of a moral emotion 131 Steven Tudor, Michael Proeve, Richard Weisman and Kate Rossmanith PART III LEGAL ACTORS 10 Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion 147 Åsa Wettergren and Stina Bergman Blix 11 The loyal defence lawyer 165 Lisa Flower 12 Researching judicial emotion and emotion management 180 Sharyn Roach Anleu, Jennifer K. Elek and Kathy Mack PART IV LEGAL DOCTRINES 13 Family law and emotion 197 June Carbone and Naomi Cahn 14 Debt’s emotional encumbrances 215 Pamela Foohey 15 The emotional dynamics of property law 229 Heather Conway and John Stannard 16 ‘…You don’t pay £100,000 to a lawyer unless you care about something’: The role of emotion in contract law 248 Emma Jones 17 Engaging head and heart: An Australian story on the role of compassion in criminal justice reform 268 Lorana Bartels and Anthony Hopkins PART V LEGAL DECISION-MAKING 18 Emotional evidence in court 288 Hannah J. Phalen, Jessica M. Salerno, and Janice Nadler 19 Emotional dimensions of visual evidence 312 Neal Feigenson 20 Distancing devices and their challenge to judicial emotion realists – so far, yet so near 327 Lee Marsons 21 The emotional storying of Charles Ssenyonga as an HIV sexual predator in June Callwood’s ‘Trial Without End: A Shocking Story of Women and AIDS’ 342 Jennifer M. Kilty PART VI HISTORY OF LEGAL EMOTIONS 22 Love in the courtroom: The debate on crimes of passion in late nineteenth-century Italy 359 Emilia Musumeci 23 Lawyerization, providence, and emotion in the eighteenth-century criminal trial 374 Amy Milka and David Lemmings 24 Copping an attitude: Slang and the neglected racial history of fear and resentment toward law enforcement and legal authority 391 Nicole Mansfield Wright 25 Curiosity and legal affect in Fulbeck’s A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Lawe 407 Simon Stern 26 Why the law needs the history of emotions: William Blackstone, Agamben and form-of-life 421 Kathryn D. Temple PART VII BEYOND THE COURTROOM LEGISLATION 27 Soft targets: Emotions in the passage of “stand your ground” legislation 438 Jody Lyneé Madeira and Catherine Wheatley INTERNATIONAL LAWS AND TRIBUNALS 28 Between micro and macro justice: Emotions in transitional justice 460 Susanne Karstedt 29 How the emotions and perceptual judgments of frontline actors shape the practice of international humanitarian law 477 Rebecca Sutton 30 Images of reach, range, and recognition: Thinking about emotions in the study of international law 492 Emily Kidd White PART VIII CLASSIC ARTICLES 31 Empathy, narrative, and victim impact statements (1996) 514 Susan A. Bandes 32 Law and emotion: A proposed taxonomy of an emerging field 534 Terry A. Maroney 33 Who’s afraid of law and the emotions 566 Kathryn Abrams and Hila Keren Index 601

Reviews

'It's high time that we appreciate the importance for law of emotions, like anger, disgust or empathy. Should law embrace emotion as inevitable, or discourage it for warping judgments and hampering fairness? The editors have gathered an impressive interdisciplinary range of perspectives on this flourishing field. Their superb collection of contributors reveal the importance of emotion not only in criminal law, but in bankruptcy, evidence, international law and other arenas. The power of emotion matters not only for juries, but for judges, legal educators and legislators. The Research Handbook of Law and Emotion is an innovative and thoughtful contribution that brings order to a complex unruly field.' -- Elizabeth F. Loftus, University of California, US 'Emotion matters to law in so many ways: it is vital to recognising the harm and suffering that law attempts to remedy; to identifying and balancing the values, vulnerabilities, and interests involved in justifying those remedies; and to learning the art and craft of legal reasoning. Understanding these issues requires drawing on many disciplines: psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, history, and the arts. This wonderful new collection does all this and more. It is essential reading for any legal scholar.' -- Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'This book represents a delightful intellectual companion as well as an urgently needed interdisciplinary anthology. I wholeheartedly recommend lawyers' engagement with this collection, and I wish it will be adopted by (law) schools around the world as an essential reading.' -- Riccardo Vecellio Segate, Nordic Journal of Human Rights 'It's high time that we appreciate the importance for law of emotions, like anger, disgust or empathy. Should law embrace emotion as inevitable, or discourage it for warping judgments and hampering fairness? The editors have gathered an impressive interdisciplinary range of perspectives on this flourishing field. Their superb collection of contributors reveal the importance of emotion not only in criminal law, but in bankruptcy, evidence, international law and other arenas. The power of emotion matters not only for juries, but for judges, legal educators and legislators. The Research Handbook of Law and Emotion is an innovative and thoughtful contribution that brings order to a complex unruly field.'

'Emotion matters to law in so many ways: it is vital to recognising the harm and suffering that law attempts to remedy; to identifying and balancing the values, vulnerabilities, and interests involved in justifying those remedies; and to learning the art and craft of legal reasoning. Understanding these issues requires drawing on many disciplines: psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, history, and the arts. This wonderful new collection does all this and more. It is essential reading for any legal scholar.' -- Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'Emotion matters to law in so many ways: it is vital to recognising the harm and suffering that law attempts to remedy; to identifying and balancing the values, vulnerabilities and interests involved in justifying those remedies; and to learning the art and craft of legal reasoning. Understanding these issues requires drawing on many disciplines: psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, history and the arts. This wonderful new collection does all this more. It is essential reading for any legal scholar.' -- Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'It's high time that we appreciate the importance for law of emotions, like anger, disgust or empathy. Should law embrace emotion as inevitable, or discourage it for warping judgments and hampering fairness? The editors have gathered an impressive interdisciplinary range of perspectives on this flourishing field. Their superb collection of contributors reveal the importance of emotion not only in criminal law, but in bankruptcy, evidence, international law and other arenas. The power of emotion matters not only for juries, but for judges, legal educators and legislators. The Research Handbook of Law and Emotion is an innovative and thoughtful contribution that brings order to a complex unruly field.' -- Elizabeth F. Loftus, University of California, Irvine, US 'Emotion matters to law in so many ways: it is vital to recognising the harm and suffering that law attempts to remedy; to identifying and balancing the values, vulnerabilities, and interests involved in justifying those remedies; and to learning the art and craft of legal reasoning. Understanding these issues requires drawing on many disciplines: psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, history, and the arts. This wonderful new collection does all this and more. It is essential reading for any legal scholar.' -- Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Edited by Susan A. Bandes, Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus, DePaul University College of Law, Jody Lyneé Madeira, Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Kathryn D. Temple, Professor of Law and Culture, Department of English, Georgetown University, US and Emily Kidd White, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

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