Is Emotion The Enemy of Reason? The Role of Emotion in the Legal System
Lecture Date
10-20-2021
Recommended Citation
Bandes, Susan A., "Is Emotion The Enemy of Reason? The Role of Emotion in the Legal System" (2021). Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship in Legal Ethics Lectures. 18.
https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/lectures_lichtenstein/18
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Speaker Information
SUSAN BANDES is widely known as a scholar in the areas of federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure and civil rights, and more recently, as a pioneer in the emerging study of the role of emotion in law. Her legal career began in 1976 at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. In 1980, she became staff counsel for the Illinois A.C.L.U., where she litigated a broad spectrum of civil rights cases, and helped draft and secure passage of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. She joined the DePaul faculty in 1984. Her book on the role of emotion in law, The Passions of Law, was published by NYU Press in January 2000, and released in paperback in 2001.