Justemotions Symposium – Constructing Objectivity: Emotions in Legal Decision-Making. Näsby Castle. 4-6 September 2023

The symposium opened up for dialogue between interdisciplinary studies to develop 13 papers to be published in a special issue of Frontiers in Sociology. All papers engage with legal decisions in court from different perspectives and all are in the front-line of the law and emotions field by studying the construction of objectivity through diverse and fine-grained empirical research. The symposium was attended by: Santiago Abel Amietta (Keele University, UK), Joan Bens (Hamburg University, Germany), Stina Bergman Blix (Uppsala University, Sweden), Alice Bosma (The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, The Netherlands); Patricia Branco (Centre for Social Studies from the University of Coimbra, Portugal), Francesco Contini (National Research Council, Italy), Louise Victoria Johansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Alessandra Minissale (Uppsala University, Sweden), Mojca Plesničar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Sharyn Roach Anleu (Flinders University, Australia), Meredith Rossner (Australian National University, Australia), Mateusz Stępień (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Nina Törnqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden), Sharon Weill (The American University of Paris, France).