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Law And Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy Of An Emerging Field Special Edition, Terry A. Maroney
Law And Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy Of An Emerging Field Special Edition, Terry A. Maroney
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Many scholars - from fields as diverse as psychology, law, philosophy, and neuroscience - have begun to study the intersection of emotion and law. I describe that scholarship's development; propose that it is organized along six interrelated but theoretically distinct foci; and suggest directions for future research.
The notion that reason and emotion are cleanly separable - and that law admits only of the former - is deeply engrained, though it recently has come under attack. Law and emotion scholarship proceeds from the beliefs that emotion may be specifically studied, that it is relevant to law, and that its legal …