'Law, Reason, and Emotion'

Professor M.N.S. Sellers, Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland, President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (I.V.R.) and H.L.A. Hart Fellow of University College, Oxford, will speak on "Law, Reason, and Emotion" at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 in the Lecture Hall at 10 Merton Street.

The Lecture will introduce themes from the book Law, Reason, and Emotion, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and offer the prolegomenon to a broader study of the nature and purpose of law. Prof. Sellers will argue that law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when it marries reason with emotion, that reason and human emotion are the foundations of any just legal system, that all legal systems claim to be just, and that all legal systems and all legal scholars make use of these insights whether they acknowledge them or not. The lecture will discuss the concepts of law, reason, emotion, justice, legitimacy, and effectiveness, and criticise the technocratic, romantic, postmodern, and totalitarian fallacies of law and legal theory.

Attached is the chapter on which Professor Sellers' remarks will be based.