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Emotions in Context Schedule

Emotion in Context
Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions

May 9–10, 2008

Friday, May 9
9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. Welcome by Dean Saul Levmore
9:45 a.m. Introduction by Susan Bandes 
10:00 a.m. Oliver Goodenough, "Institutions, Emotions and Law: An Essay on a Goldilocks Problem"
10:50 a.m. Susan Bandes, "Victims, 'Closure,' and the Sociology of Emotion"
11:40 a.m. Break
12:00 noon Richard Epstein, "Happiness from an Evolutionary Perspective"
12:50 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Kevin McCabe, "Two Neural Systems for Trust"
2:50 p.m. Elizabeth Phelps, "Social Influences on Emotional Learning and Decision-Making"
3:40 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. John Deigh, "Cognitivism about Reactive Attitudes"
4:50 p.m. Martha Nussbaum, "Compassion: Human and Animal"

Saturday, May 10
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Scott Anderson, "Practical and Nonpractical Guilt and the Role of Institutions"
9:50 a.m. Christoph Engel, "Preponderance of the Evidence vs. Conviction Intime: The Psychology of a Difference between U.S. and European Law"
10:40 a.m. Break
10:55 a.m. Mary Anne Case, "On Liking and Not Liking in the Law of Discrimination Part II: Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"
11:45 a.m. Joshua Greene, "The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul: Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment"
12:35 p.m. Adjourn (box lunch will be available)