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Conference Announcement: Emotion in Context at Chicago

By Lawrence Solum

Emotion in Context
Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions
May 9-10, 2008
The University of Chicago Law School
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago

The design of legal institutions is based on implicit and explicit assumptions about human behavior, for example assumptions about how people individually or collectively respond to new information, assess risks, or decide whom to trust or fear, about what motivates people to forgive or to seek vengeance, or about how to promote or discourage empathy. This conference will bring together scholars working in philosophy, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, sociology, psychology, political science and other disciplines exploring the complex interaction between emotion and social structure to consider both how institutional context affects the experience and expression of emotion, and how emotion norms affect the shape and operation of legal institutions.

Confirmed participants include: Mary Anne Case, Richard Epstein, Cass Sunstein, Martha Nussbaum, Joshua Greene, Elizabeth Phelps, Kevin McCabe, John Deigh, Susan Bandes, Oliver Goodenough, Christoph Engel and Scott Anderson.

For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/events.html or contact Susan Bandes at sbandes@uchicago.edu or Marjorie Holme at mholme@uchicago.edu.

Admission is free but space is limited so please register if you plan to attend.

Emotions and Institutions is sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the DePaul University College of Law and the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).