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10 Critical Analysis L. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/cclaysolw10 and id is 1 raw text is: Cognitive Legal Humanities: An Introduction Maksymilian Del Mar* & Simon Stern** Abstract Whereas cognitive legal studies has attracted a considerable amount of attention from law professors over the past few decades, cognitive legal humanities (CLH) is only starting to gain traction. CLH brings together work in the cognitive sciences, the humanities, and law, focusing not so much on the prescriptive concerns that often animate research in cognitive legal studies, but on ways of enriching that vein of work-and legal scholarship more gen- erally-by bringing the methods and materials of the humanities to bear on questions involving intention, consciousness, perception, memory, reasoning, attention, and emotion in relation to legal issues. In this introduction, we make three points about the importance of bringing the humanities into this discussion. First, the humanities can provide a vital means of historicizing cognition and its relations to law, while also prompting us to reflect on the differences among various ways of historicizing these matters. Second, the human- ities offer resources for engaging with the politics of cognition and its relations to law- resources that are only rarely on display in fields such as neuroscience and cognitive psy- chology, and the legal scholarship that builds on them. Third, the humanities highlight the constitutive links among cognition, law, and culture, again in ways that these other fields rarely explore. After addressing these points and showing how the articles in this issue en- gage with them, we offer a brief summary of each article. I. Cognitive legal humanities (CLI) is an emerging domain of interdisciplinary legal scholar- ship that triangulates three bodies of discourse and research: the cognitive sciences (and, by extension, philosophy of mind), the humanities, and law. It is thus related to, but distinct from, cognitive legal studies (e.g., see the new Law and Cognitive Sciences series published by Cambridge University Press), which does not tend to engage with the humanities. Cog- nitive legal studies is of course a most valuable domain of scholarship and nothing we say here is intended as a criticism of it. Our case is instead a positive one: a case for what the humanities can bring to the table, enriching the scholarship further. A key question we might then ask is: what do the humanities add to cognitive legal studies? Why and how might triangulating the three be so valuable? Prompted in part by the wonderful essays in this issue, we offer three broad and overlapping answers to that question: first, the humanities remind us how crucial it is to historicize cognition and its relations to law, while also inviting reflection on what is at stake in adopting a certain way of historicizing; second, the humanities offer us many resources for engaging with the politics of cognition and its relations to law; and third, the humanities * Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. **Professor of Law and English, University of Toronto. ISSN 2291-9732

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