Activities

2022

International Association of Procedural Law Colloqium, Brescia, October 6-8

Alessandra Minissale. The Hidden Side of Justice: Exploring Emotional Labour Underlying Judicial and Prosecutorial Decision-Making.

Law and Society (LSA) Global Conference, Lisbon, July 13-16

Alessandra Minissale: Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: The Emotive-Cognitive Evaluation of Intent and Credibility

Cecilia Nordquist: The Emotional Processes of Plea Bargaining

Stina Bergman Blix: From Uncertainty to Judgment Independence and Consensus in Legal Decision-Making

Cecilia Nordquist, Alessandra Minissale & Stina Bergman Blix: Emotional Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Auto-Ethnographic Approach 

Stina Bergman Blix: Exploring Invisible Emotions

Alessandra Minissale: Scrutinzing Gut Feelings: Emotional Reflexive Practices in Italian Courts (P)

Symposium. Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna University. May 20

Il ruolo delle emozioni nel giudicare. Presentazione dei risultati della ricerca.

Terry Maroney, Stina Bergman Blix, Francesco Contini, Alessandra Minissale, Cecilia Nordquist.

2021

European Sociological Association Annual conference, Barcelona August 31-September 3

Cecilia Yvonne Nordquist, Stina Bergman Blix: An Inherently Fragile Power Tool: A Conceptual Expansion of Emotional Capital in Court.

Stina Bergman Blix, Nina Törnqvist: From Uncertainty to Judgment: The Emotional Undercurrents of Legal Decision-Making.

Stina Bergman Blix, Alessandra Minissale(Dis)passionate Law Stories: The emotional processes of encoding narratives in court.

Law and Society (LSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 27-30

Alessandra Minissale: “Legal encoding as emotion management: analyzing narrative transformation in court".

Nina Törnquist: Nina Tornqvist, Just Anger – feelings of indignation in Swedish courts.

Lecture: Alma Mater Studiorum – Bologna University, Faculty of Law, March 31

Alessandra Minissale: “Il ruolo delle emozioni nell’esperienza giuridica” (The role of emotions in the legal realm).

Seminar: Center for law, society and culture, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, March 19

Åsa Wettergren, University of Gothenburg & Stina Bergman Blix, Uppsala University:
“Comparing Culturally Embedded Frames of Judicial Dispassion".

Seminar: Uppsala University Department of Business Studies February 19

Stina Bergman Blix "Unfolding rational emotions in legal decision-making". Discussant: Dr Henrik Bellander, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University.

2020

Lecture: Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, December 4, online

Stina Bergman Blix: Unfolding Rational Emotions of Legal Decision-Making”.

European Sociological Association 9th Midterm Conference, 25th–27th November

Stina Bergman Blix: “The Construction of Objectivity – Rational Emotions in Legal Decision-Making”.

Nina Törnqvist & Åsa Wettergren: “Epistemic Emotions and Objective Decision-Making in Prosecution”.

Law and Society (LSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, May

Stina Bergman Blix.

2019

Seminar: Score, Stockholm University, November 21

Stina Bergman Blix: The construction of objectivity: Rational Emotions in legal decision making.

Seminar, Nätverket Hilda, Malmö, September 20

Stina Bergman Blix. “Professional Emotions in Court”, Nätverket Hilda, Malmö, September 20.

Law and Society (LSA) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., May 29-June 2

Stina Bergman Blix. The Feeling of Judges: How Judges Judge Feelings.

Seminars, Lectures and Workshop: Uppsala University, May 2019

Emeritus Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law Susan Bandes visited Uppsala University on a Fulbright Expert Award in collaboration with the JUSTEMOTIONS project 13-17 May. During her stay, Professor Bandes took part in a workshop (see below), held seminars, lectures and advice the research project.

JUSTEMOTIONS organized a workshop on LAW & EMOTION - Empathy, Objectivity and Remorse, 13-14 May in Engelska parken, Uppsala University. For pdf program, click here. For pictures, click here

Lecture: Alma Mater Studiorum – Bologna University, Faculty of Law, March 13

Stina Bergman Blix, “Emotions in Court: Exploring judicial emotion management and decision-making”.

2018

Seminar: Department of Law, Uppsala University, October 18

Stina Bergman Blix, “Professional Emotions in Court: A Sociological Perspective”.

Seminar: ERC Celebration, Swedish Research Council, May 18

Stina Bergman Blix, “The Construction of Objectivity”.

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