Research Handbook on Law and Emotion

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

• Contents:Introduction 1Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lyneé Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple and Emily Kidd WhitePART I FOUNDATIONSPSYCHOLOGY1 Lay conceptions of emotion in law 15Terry A. MaroneyNEUROSCIENCE2 The evolving neuroscience of emotion: challenges and opportunities forintegration with the law 27Maria GendronPHILOSOPHY3 Law’s sentiments 44Robin WestPEDAGOGY4 “Whose body is this?” on the role of emotion in teaching and learning law 62Gillian CalderPART II EMOTIONS5 When souls shudder: A brief history of disgust and the law 80Carlton Patrick6 Retribution: Not anger but respect for dignity 94Jeffrie G. Murphy7 Closure in the criminal courtroom: The birth and strange career of an emotion 102Susan A. Bandes8 The aptness of anger 119Amia Srinivasan9 Remorse: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on how law makes use ofa moral emotion 131Steven Tudor, Michael Proeve, Richard Weisman and Kate RossmanithPART III LEGAL ACTORS10 Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion 147Åsa Wettergren and Stina Bergman Blix11 The loyal defence lawyer 165Lisa Flower12 Researching judicial emotion and emotion management 180Sharyn Roach Anleu, Jennifer K. Elek and Kathy MackPART IV LEGAL DOCTRINES13 Family law and emotion 197June Carbone and Naomi Cahn14 Debt’s emotional encumbrances 215Pamela Foohey15 The emotional dynamics of property law 229Heather Conway and John Stannard16 ‘…You don’t pay £100,000 to a lawyer unless you care aboutsomething’: The role of emotion in contract law 248Emma Jones17 Engaging head and heart: An Australian story on the role of compassionin criminal justice reform 268Lorana Bartels and Anthony HopkinsPART V LEGAL DECISION-MAKING18 Emotional evidence in court 288Hannah J. Phalen, Jessica M. Salerno, and Janice Nadler19 Emotional dimensions of visual evidence 312Neal Feigenson20 Distancing devices and their challenge to judicial emotion realists – sofar, yet so near 327Lee Marsons21 The emotional storying of Charles Ssenyonga as an HIV sexualpredator in June Callwood’s ‘Trial Without End: A Shocking Story ofWomen and AIDS’ 342Jennifer M. KiltyPART VI HISTORY OF LEGAL EMOTIONS22 Love in the courtroom: The debate on crimes of passion in latenineteenth-century Italy 359Emilia Musumeci23 Lawyerization, providence, and emotion in the eighteenth-century criminal trial 374Amy Milka and David Lemmings24 Copping an attitude: Slang and the neglected racial history of fear andresentment toward law enforcement and legal authority 391Nicole Mansfield Wright25 Curiosity and legal affect in Fulbeck’s A Direction or Preparative tothe Study of the Lawe 407Simon Stern26 Why the law needs the history of emotions: William Blackstone,Agamben and form-of-life 421Kathryn D. TemplePART VII BEYOND THE COURTROOMLEGISLATION27 Soft targets: Emotions in the passage of “stand your ground” legislation 438Jody Lyneé Madeira and Catherine WheatleyINTERNATIONAL LAWS AND TRIBUNALS28 Between micro and macro justice: Emotions in transitional justice 460Susanne Karstedt29 How the emotions and perceptual judgments of frontline actors shapethe practice of international humanitarian law 477Rebecca Sutton30 Images of reach, range, and recognition: Thinking about emotions inthe study of international law 492Emily Kidd WhitePART VIII CLASSIC ARTICLES31 Empathy, narrative, and victim impact statements (1996) 514Susan A. Bandes32 Law and emotion: A proposed taxonomy of an emerging field 534Terry A. Maroney33 Who’s afraid of law and the emotions 566Kathryn Abrams and Hila KerenIndex 601

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