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The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.
List of contents
1. Introduction M. N. S. Sellers; 2. Law, reason, and emotion M. N. S. Sellers; 3. Law's emotions Robin West; 4. The domestication of emotion András Sajó; 5. Neuroscience, philosophy, and the foundations of legal justice Matthias Mahlmann; 6. Rights, reason, and emotion Daniel Mendonca Bonnet; 7. Law and honor Anthony Appiah; 8. Interactive reason and law Ko Hasegawa; 9. The wrath of reason Patricia Mindus.
About the author
M. N. S. Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland, Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law, and president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). He was educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and at University and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, a Frank Knox Fellow, and the T. H. Green Scholar. Professor Sellers is co-editor (with Stephan Kirste) of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (forthcoming) and general editor of the book series IVR Studies in the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. He has been the H. L. A. Hart Fellow at University College, Oxford, a Lauterpacht Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and the EACLE Professor of Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Among his many books on law and the philosophy of law are: The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Law (1998), Republican Legal Theory (2003) and Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of International Law (2012).
Summary
What place do reason and emotion have in justice and the law? This thought-provoking text brings together leading lawyers and legal philosophers to argue that law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole.
