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86 Cornell L. Rev. 974 (2000-2001)
Negotiating the Tangle of Law and Emotion

handle is hein.journals/clqv86 and id is 982 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW NEGOTIATING THE TANGLE OF LAW AND EMOTION Laura E. Littl4 THE PASSIONS OF LAW. Edited by Susan A. Bandes.tt New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. 367. $35.00. INTRODUCTION ................................................. 975 I. LAW AND EMOTION: THE EMERGING MOVEMENT .......... 976 II. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE AND: NEGOTIATING MANY THREADS OF EMOTION ................................... 979 A. Many Threads of Emotion: Debates About Taxonomy and Definition .......................... 981 B. Many Threads of Emotion: Debates About Cognitive Content ............................................ 987 III. THE LEFT SIDE OF THE AND: NEGOTIATING MANY THREADS OF LAw ........................................ 992 A. Many Threads of Law: Legal Doctrine .............. 993 B. Many Threads of Law: Structuring Legal Institutions ......................................... 994 C. Many Threads of Law: Culture and Society ......... 998 CONCLUSION ................................................... 1000 The incipient field of law and emotion has produced its first oeuvre, The Passions of the Law, an eclectic and impressive collection of essays edited by Professor Susan Bandes. In this Book Review, Professor Laura Little examines this work, paying close attention to the quality of scholarship on both sides of the and, while noting the unusual status of emotion stud- ies as an emerging discipline. Observing that much interdisciplinary schol- arship lacks an organized theoretical structure, Professor Little identifles the special challenges of law and emotion studies resulting from disagreements within emotion theory itself She argues forcefully that law and emotion scholarship would improve if organized around theoretical debates within emotion theory itself, such as scholarly dialogues on the definition of emotion and its relation to cognition. However, she applauds the authors in The Passions of Law for their broad-based conception of law and society and for t Professor of Law, Temple UniversityJames E. Beasley School of Law. Many thanks to Sharon McCullen and Chris Cerski, who provided excellent research assistance for the review. Copyright 2001 held by Laura E. Little. i-t Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law. 974

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