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Why do we not want angry judges?

Published 16 October 2018

Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde.

Photo of lisa Flower by Emma Lord.

Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions and their bodies.

Read the article Brett Kavanaugh: why we don’t want angry judges on theconversation.com (2018-10-10)

Lisa Flower will defend her doctoral thesis Loyalty Work: Emotional interactions of defence lawyers in Swedish courtrooms on 30th October 2018. Learn more.

Find her research in Lund University Research Portal.

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