Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?  In small places, close to home – so close and so small… Read More

The law has had an uneasy relationship with emotion, and we are trained to think that the best decisions are… Read More

Emotional intelligence dictates that individuals react in a certain way because they are wired to respond emotionally to certain triggers. … Read More

There is more to written persuasion through ethos—that is, credibility—than the characteristics of a competent professional.  Credibility does not exist… Read More

The reasonable man is an anthropomorphic metaphor for legal reasoning.  In this role, he sometimes shows symptoms of mental illness. … Read More

Recent advances in neuroscience have shown that cognition and emotion often work interdependently, operating as if emerging from a single… Read More

Hurricanes Harvey and Maria—which both struck the United States in 2017—left vastly different reactions in their wake.  The federal government’s… Read More

Intelligence has been parsed into categories including general intelligence, which describes cognitive capacity, and emotional intelligence, describing social competency.  Perhaps… Read More

As an introduction to this Wake Forest Law Review symposium issue entitled Cognitive Emotion and the Law, I set out… Read More