The Passions of Law

The Passions of Law
Author: Susan Bandes
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 081471305X

Scholars of law, theology, political science, and philosophy evaluate the role of emotion in the practice and conception of law and justice. Exploring the part that emotions such as disgust, shame, remorse, the desire for revenge, and love, all play in legal settings, the authors debate the ways that emotion should or should not be used in the decision making processes of judges, lawyers, and juries, and explore the possibility of an emotional hierarchy, and ways to evaluate emotion in sensational cases, such as death sentencing and hate crimes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Passions and Emotions

Passions and Emotions
Author: James E. Fleming
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814760147

Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended passions and emotions as tempering reason and enriching judgment, and there is mounting empirical evidence linking emotions to moral judgment. In Passions and Emotions, a group of prominent scholars in philosophy, political science, and law explore three clusters of issues: “Passion & Impartiality: Passions & Emotions in Moral Judgment”; “Passion & Motivation: Passions & Emotions in Democratic Politics”; and “Passion & Dispassion: Passions & Emotions in Legal Interpretation.” This timely, interdisciplinary volume examines many of the theoretical and practical legal, political, and moral issues raised by such questions.

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion

Research Handbook on Law and Emotion
Author: Susan A. Bandes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788119088

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.

The Passions of Law

The Passions of Law
Author: Susan Bandes
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814713068

This anthology treats the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. The work consists largely of original essays, by scholars of law, theology, political science and philosophy.

Law and the Passions

Law and the Passions
Author: Julia Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780415631594

Although the connection of law, passion and emotion has become an established focus in legal scholarship, the extent to which emotion has always been, and continues to be, a significant influence in informing legal reasoning, decision-making, decision-avoidance and legal judgment - rather than an adjunct - is still a matter for critical analysis. Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotional states are a motivational force - and have produced key legal principles and controversial judgments, as evidenced in a range of illustrative legal cases - Law and the Passions: A Discrete History provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significance and influence of emotions in the history and continuing development of legal institutions and legal dogma. Law, it is argued, is a passion; and, as such, it is a primarily emotional endeavour.

Dishonorable Passions

Dishonorable Passions
Author: William N. Eskridge
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780670018628

A history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior traces the historical purposes behind the prohibition against sodomy in early America and continues with a discussion of how the law was referenced in different contexts in later years, covering such topics as the McCarthy era, the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the 2003 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize private sex between consenting adults. 20,000 first printing.

Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies

Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies
Author: William N. Eskridge
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814751318

While the Constitution is the cornerstone of American government, some who are most familiar with the document find it lacking. This unique volume brings together many of the country's most esteemed constitutional commentators and challenges them to select the "stupidest" provision of the Constitution--then to surmise possible results if different interpretations were applied.

Professional Emotions in Court

Professional Emotions in Court
Author: Stina Bergman Blix
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315306735

Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive interview and observation data in Sweden, the authors highlight the silenced background emotions and the tacitly habituated emotion management in the daily work at courts and prosecution offices. Following participants ‘backstage’ – whether at the office or at lunch – in order to observe preparations for and reflections on the performance in court itself, this book sheds light on the emotionality of courtroom interactions, such as professional collaboration, negotiations, and challenges, with the analysis of micro-interactions being situated in the broader structural regime of the legal system – the emotive-cognitive judicial frame – throughout. A demonstration of the false dichotomy between emotion and reason that lies behind the assumption of a judicial system that operates rationally and without emotion, Professional Emotions in Court reveals how this assumption shapes professionals’ perceptions and performance of their work, but hampers emotional reflexivity, and questions whether the judicial system might gain in legitimacy if the role of emotional processes were recognized and reflected upon.

Civil Passions

Civil Passions
Author: Sharon R. Krause
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691162247

In this book Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Her work provides a systematic account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics.

Governance of Cons Passion

Governance of Cons Passion
Author: A. Hunt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1996-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0333984390

This book explores the sumptuary laws that regulated conspicuous consumption in respect to dress, ornaments, and food that were widespread in late medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that sumptuary laws were attempts to stabilize social recognizability in the urban `world of strangers' and in the governance of cities. The gendered character of sumptuary laws are viewed as components of 'gender wars'. These laws are explored as projects directed at the reform of popular culture and in their links to the governance of vagrancy and of popular recreation. This study challenges the view that the sumptuary actually died and develops an argument that in the modern world the regulation of consumption persists, but becomes dispersed throughout a range of both public and private forms of governance. The conclusions stresses the persistence of projects of governance of personal appearance and of private consumption.