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SUSAN A. BANDES, DePaul University - College of Law
JEREMY A. BLUMENTHAL, Syracuse University - College of Law
JEREMY A. BLUMENTHAL, Syracuse University - College of Law
The field of law and emotion draws from a range of disciplines in the
sciences, social sciences, and humanities to shed light on the emotions
that pervade the legal system. It utilizes insights from these
disciplines to illuminate and assess the implicit and explicit
assumptions about emotion that animate legal reasoning, legal doctrine,
the behavior of legal actors, and the structure of legal institutions.
In light of law's focus on influencing social norms and on structuring
effective and just institutions, one development that holds enormous
promise is the growing interdisciplinary interest in collective decision
making and in the emotional dynamics of groups. Work in the affective
sciences on how emotion and cognition interact is another rich vein for
legal scholars interested in the assessment of responsibility and blame,
the role of morality in law, and a host of other areas. Another
important frontier is exploration of concrete solutions to the
problems identified by law and emotion scholars.
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