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Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior
(California Law Review, 2011)
Judges are human and experience emotion when hearing cases, though the standard account of judging long has denied that fact. In the post-realist era it is possible to acknowledge that judges have emotional reactions to ...
The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion
(California Law Review, 2011)
In contemporary Western jurisprudence it is never appropriate for emotion - anger, love, hatred, sadness, disgust, fear, joy - to affect judicial decision-making. A good judge should feel no emotion; if she does, she puts ...
Adolescent Brain Science After Graham v. Florida
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2011)
In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentence of life without possibility of parole for a non-homicide crime committed when the offender was under the age of eighteen. In an ...