The Politics of Law and Emotions: Addressing Overlooked Emotions in Legal Fields
9:30am - 5:00pm /
Thursday 25th September 2025
/ Venue: Ground floor, Event Space School of Law & Social Justice
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
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Law and Emotion is an important area of scholarship across a wide range of disciplines. Recent decades have seen Law and Emotion research expand into socio-legal theory, philosophy, psychology and history, with critical evaluative discussions on the relationship between certain emotions and the legal fields in which they are present. Still, one issue in Law and Emotion theory is that there is often a focus on emotions that may be more apparent in law, for example, anger in criminal trials. This seminar focuses on neglected emotions in Law and Emotion theory, with a range of presentations in various areas of law and their relationship with emotions. This day-long event hosts talks discussing the role of emotions in legal decision-making, such as regret in abortion law, coercion in divorce law and emotions in property law disputes. There will be talks on using emotion in law, for example, in physician-assisted dying, human rights law and legal education. The event will conclude with a keynote presentation from Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus, Susan Bandes on empathy in legal decision-making. This workshop aims to bring Law and Emotion theory into discussion with other disciplines, extend the field to discuss overlooked emotions and encourage further use of the theory in disciplines that may not have previously considered it in significance.
Law and Emotion is an important area of scholarship across a wide range of disciplines. Recent decades have seen Law and Emotion research expand into socio-legal theory, philosophy, psychology and history, with critical evaluative discussions on the relationship between certain emotions and the legal fields in which they are present. Still, one issue in Law and Emotion theory is that there is often a focus on emotions that may be more apparent in law, for example, anger in criminal trials. This seminar focuses on neglected emotions in Law and Emotion theory, with a range of presentations in various areas of law and their relationship with emotions. This day-long event hosts talks discussing the role of emotions in legal decision-making, such as regret in abortion law, coercion in divorce law and emotions in property law disputes. There will be talks on using emotion in law, for example, in physician-assisted dying, human rights law and legal education. The event will conclude with a keynote presentation from Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus, Susan Bandes on empathy in legal decision-making. This workshop aims to bring Law and Emotion theory into discussion with other disciplines, extend the field to discuss overlooked emotions and encourage further use of the theory in disciplines that may not have previously considered it in significance.