Emotions in the Law School: Transforming Legal Education Through the Passions

by Emma Jones

Law schools are failing both their staff and students by requiring them to prize reason and rationality and to suppress or ignore emotions. Despite innovations in terms of both content and teaching techniques, there is little evidence that emotions are effectively acknowledged or utilised within legal education. Instead law schools are clinging to an out-dated and erroneous perception of emotions as at best, irrational, and at worst dangerous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138555215
• ISBN13: 9781138555211
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"