Download or read book The Passions of Law written by Susan Bandes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of law, theology, political science, and philosophy evaluate the role of emotion in the practice and conception of law and justice. Exploring the part that emotions such as disgust, shame, remorse, the desire for revenge, and love, all play in legal settings, the authors debate the ways that emotion should or should not be used in the decision making processes of judges, lawyers, and juries, and explore the possibility of an emotional hierarchy, and ways to evaluate emotion in sensational cases, such as death sentencing and hate crimes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR