Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning

Amalia Amaya is British Academy Global Professor at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Research Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Maksymilian Del Mar is Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

1. New Horizons for the Study of the Legal Mind: Relating Virtue, Emotion and Imagination
Amalia Amaya and Maksymilian Del Mar

PART I
VIRTUE – AND EMOTION, IMAGINATION
2. Admiration, Exemplarity and Judicial Virtue
Amalia Amaya
3. Impartiality and Legal Reasoning
Catherine Z Elgin
4. Austerity, Compassion and the Rule of Law
Benjamin C Zipursky
5. All Judges on the Couch? On Iris Murdoch and Legal Decision-Making
Iris van Domselaar

PART II
EMOTION – AND VIRTUE, IMAGINATION
6. On Emotions and the Politics of Attention in Judicial Reasoning
Emily Kidd White
7. ‘Black Lives Matter’: Moral Frames for Understanding the Police Killings of Black Males
Lawrence Blum
8. Suffering and Punishment
Michael S Brady
9. Empathy and Negative Intimacy
Olbeth Hansberg

PART III
IMAGINATION – AND EMOTION, VIRTUE
10. Empathy, Imagination and the Law
Amy Kind
11. Imagining Motives
Adam Morton
12. The Legal Imagination in Historical Perspective
Simon Stern
13. The Legal Imagination: Individual, Interactive and Communal
Maksymilian Del Mar