RT Book
T1 Introduction to the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Emotion
A1 Bandes, Susan A.
A1 Temple, Kathryn D.
A1 Madeira, Jody Lynee
A1 Kidd White, Emily
A2 Temple, Kathryn D.
A2 Madeira, Jody Lynee
A2 Kidd White, Emily
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866596519
AB The role of emotion in law has long been shrouded in mystery. The legal system is built on assumptions about human behavior, including assumptions about emotion. Thus, unavoidably, understanding emotion is an essential part of building a fairer, more effective system. Yet the emergence and growth of Law and Emotion as a field of study has been slowed by the belief that merely by acknowledging emotion, scholars and jurists would undermine the rule of law. It has been further hampered by the suspicion that emotions are too ephemeral or subjective to be understood in any systematic way. For too long, the result has been a strange, unproductive stasis: a legal system buffeted by emotional influences it refuses to investigate—or even to name