{"id":161,"date":"2006-05-17T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/05\/17\/quest-for-principles-of-emotional-leg"},"modified":"2006-12-10T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T09:35:14","slug":"quest-for-principles-of-emotional-legal-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/05\/17\/quest-for-principles-of-emotional-legal-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest for Principles of Emotional Legal Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2006\/05\/15\/law-economics-of-cyberspace-at-university-of-st-gallen\/\">intense<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2006\/05\/16\/re-reading-negroponte-being-digital-1995\/\">wonderful<\/a> &#8220;Law &amp; Economics of Cyberspace&#8221;-teaching experience with my friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/people\/jpalfrey.html\">John Palfrey<\/a>, I started working today on my contribution to the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gruterinstitute.org\/\">Gruter Institute<\/a>&#8216;s Squaw Valley Conference 2006 on Law, Behavior &amp; the Brain, where I will be participating in a session on Law &amp; Emotion. Here&#8217;s the abstract of my presentation, entitled &#8220;The Quest for Principles of Emotional Legal Design&#8221;:<br \/>\nThe presentation is intended as a contribution to the emerging field of scholarship at the intersection of law and emotion. However, instead of providing findings of prior research or research in progress, I would like to present and discuss a few hypotheses\u2014and even ask some questions\u2014that mark the very beginning of one of the speaker\u2019s research projects.<br \/>\nTwo beliefs are the starting point for my inquiry. First, I argue that the law &amp; emotion scholarship has made a strong case why, in fact, emotions are of relevance to the legal system. Second, I suggest that in-depth and cross-disciplinary research in the field of law &amp; emotion will soon be complemented by a discussion about what we might call \u201cemotional legal design\u201d, i.e., a discourse about the design principles aimed at guiding the future development of a legal system that takes the findings of law &amp; emotion research serious.<br \/>\nAgainst this backdrop, I will formulate a series of theses that address, inter alia, the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are \u201cemotional legal design principles\u201d, and how might they look like?<\/li>\n<li>What is the underlying rationale and justification of such principles?<\/li>\n<li>What goals can and should they achieve?<\/li>\n<li>How can \u201cemotional legal design principles\u201d be applied and concretized?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The presentation ends with an illustration of the (possible) ramifications of the suggested design principles by using the Mohammed cartoon controversy as an example.<\/p>\n<p>Any inputs, thoughts, and comments much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an intense and wonderful &#8220;Law &amp; Economics of Cyberspace&#8221;-teaching experience with my friend and colleague John Palfrey, I started working today on my contribution to the upcoming Gruter Institute&#8216;s Squaw Valley Conference 2006 on Law, Behavior &amp; the Brain, where I will be participating in a session on Law &amp; Emotion. Here&#8217;s the abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-emotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}