What do we know so far about emotion and refugee law?

Maroney proposes six areas of enquiry into how emotion is embedded in and drives the development of the legal circumscription of society. The first four are: (1) how a given emotion is reflected in the law (emotion-centred); (2) how particular mechanisms of emotion are reflected in the law (emotion-phenomenon); (3) how particular theories of emotion are reflected or utilised in law (emotion-theory) and (4) the study of how theories of emotion are reflected in legal theory (‘theory of law’). This paper will address the other two, more applied questions, of how emotion is or should be reflected in doctrine or particular determinations (the ‘legal doctrine’ approach) and how particular legal actors’ performances are – and where they perhaps should be – influenced by emotion (the ‘legal actor’ approach).

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