Tag Archives: Emotion

Austin on Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion @SturmCOL @WFULawReview

Debra S. Austin, University of Denver College of Law, is publishing Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion in the Wake Forest Law Review. Here is the abstract. Intelligence has been parsed into categories including general intelligence (IQ), … Continue reading

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Gilbert, White and friends on emotion, violence, vengeance, and medieval law

Kate Gilbert, independent scholar and Stephen D. White, Emory University have co-edited Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller with Brill. From the press:Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American … Continue reading

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Cotterrell on Law, Emotion, and Affective Community @QMSchoolofLaw

Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary School of Law, has published Law, Emotion and Affective Community. Here is the abstract. How should socio-legal theory conceptualise ‘emotion’ as an aspect of social relations that law addresses? This paper uses a concept of affective … Continue reading

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Leave the emotion to the soap operas

Remember the OJ Simpson trial?  I do.  I was in law school at the time and it was such a big deal that the law library set up a television for students to watch the proceedings.I remember watching the 15 … Continue reading

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Love as a (Kantian-like) Moral Emotion

I first read J. David Velleman’s Self to Self: Selected Essays(Cambridge University Press, 2006) when it came out over ten years ago; reading it afresh leaves me far more impressed and moved by its arguments and insights. I used to … Continue reading

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