Reducing stop-and-search and increasing fairness and effectiveness in policing practice in Scotland
Raising the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland and reducing youth offending
Protecting and promoting public interest in the regulation of human health research
Frontline Land: The Everyday Life of International Humanitarian Law
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This Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project investigated the often overlooked factors of the emotional life and perceptual judgments of those who are expected to enact law in a time of war.
As the prospect of human-less warfare becomes more realistic, there is an urgent need to grapple with the human element that is slipping away and provide international humanitarian law with a theory of emotion that is missing. Led by Dr Rebecca Sutton, the project developed the concept of “Frontline Land,” a space of encounter in which different conflict zone actors navigate the interplay of law and emotions on a daily basis.
About the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
The Leverhulme Trust awards funding to talented individuals across academic disciplines, and the Early Career Fellowships are for early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.
How the emotions and perceptual judgments of frontline actors shape the practice of international humanitarian law.
Sutton, Rebecca. Research Handbook on Law and Emotion. ed. Susan A. Bandes; Jody Lyneé Madeira; Kathryn D. Temple; Emily Kidd White. Edward Elgar, 2021. p. 477-491 (Research Handbooks in Legal Theory).
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Emotion Bites: A Starter Guide to Teaching Emotional Intelligence in the Law School Classroom
Sutton, Rebecca. (March 15, 2021)
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Law, Virtue and Political Community
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This British Academy Global Professorship project on 'Law, Virtue and Political Community' argues that the possession of virtue by legal actors is critical to sound legal decision-making and to enhancing community bonds within and beyond the state.
Led by Professor Amalia Amaya Navarro as Edinburgh Law School's current British Academy Global Professor, the project has three main parts, in which she aims to: develop a virtue approach to legal reasoning and judicial ethics and explore its consequences for legal education and institutional design; examine the political implications of the virtue turn in jurisprudence and argue that public virtue is critical to community building; and extend virtue jurisprudence to the international and global context by showing the relevance of virtuous character to legal-decision making.
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About the British Academy Global Professorship
The Global Professorships programme began in 2018 and is supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the UK Government’s National Productivity Fund. This prestigious programme aims to enrich the UK’s international research partnerships and collaborations, as well as strengthen the UK’s research capacity in the humanities and social sciences, by providing overseas scholars the opportunity to relocate to the UK for four years to pursue individual research goals and contribute to UK higher education.
