Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning

Amalia Amaya is British Academy Global Professor at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Research Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Maksymilian Del Mar is Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

• 1. New Horizons for the Study of the Legal Mind: Relating Virtue, Emotion and Imagination Amalia Amaya and Maksymilian Del MarPART IVIRTUE – AND EMOTION, IMAGINATION2. Admiration, Exemplarity and Judicial Virtue Amalia Amaya3. Impartiality and Legal Reasoning Catherine Z Elgin4. Austerity, Compassion and the Rule of Law Benjamin C Zipursky5. All Judges on the Couch? On Iris Murdoch and Legal Decision-Making Iris van DomselaarPART IIEMOTION – AND VIRTUE, IMAGINATION6. On Emotions and the Politics of Attention in Judicial Reasoning Emily Kidd White7. ‘Black Lives Matter’: Moral Frames for Understanding the Police Killings of Black Males Lawrence Blum8. Suffering and Punishment Michael S Brady9. Empathy and Negative Intimacy Olbeth HansbergPART IIIIMAGINATION – AND EMOTION, VIRTUE10. Empathy, Imagination and the Law Amy Kind11. Imagining Motives Adam Morton12. The Legal Imagination in Historical Perspective Simon Stern13. The Legal Imagination: Individual, Interactive and Communal Maksymilian Del Mar

Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law is a nuanced and sophisticated exploration of the multiple ways in which the concepts of emotion, virtue, and imagination intersect, diverge, and enrich one another. It is a gorgeously written book, deeply informed by a wide range of sources, methodologies, and cultural contexts, and including work by some of the most interesting and insightful scholars of our day.