Law and Theory Workshop

The workshop offers a space for open, critical engagement with legal and theoretical questions from a range of diverse perspectives. Select essays and book chapters are circulated in advance and then discussed together during the session.

Spring 2021: Law and Emotions

02.03.21 : Stefan Häussler, Psychoanalytische Rechtstheorien und die Reflexion von Gefühlen in der Rechtsphilosophie

16.03.21: Julia Hänni, Juristisches Urteil – seine wahrnehmungstheoretischen Voraussetzungen

30.03.21: Sandra Schnädelbach, Vom inneren Trieb zum psychophysischen Paradox: ein emotionshistorischer Blick auf die Vermessung des Rechtsgefühls um 1900

13.04.21: Pierre Legendre, The Other Dimension of Law

27.04.21: Julia J. A. Shaw and Hilary J. Shaw, From Fact to Feeling: An Explication of the Mimetic Relationship Between Law and Emotion

11.05.21: Greta Olson, The Turn to Passion: Has Law and Literature Become Law and Affect?

25.05.21: Pavel Vasilyev, A Revolutionary Feeling of Justice? Emotion and Legal Judgement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia (* please note the change to the original programme *)

The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom. Should you wish to receive the link and texts, please register at lucernaiuris@unilu.ch.

Please note that unless otherwise indicated, the discussion of the texts will be in German.