Susan Bandes

Susan Bandes is an American lawyer, currently the Centennial Distinguished Professor^[1] at DePaul University.^[2] Bandes is one of the 20 most cited law professors in criminal law and procedure.^[3]

Biography

Bandes joined the DePaul faculty in 1984, and was named Distinguished Research Professor in 2003 and Centennial Distinguished Professor in 2012. She has written more than 50 articles, and is among the most widely cited law professors in the field of criminal law and procedure. Her work appears in, among others, the Yale,^[4] Stanford,^[5] University of Chicago,^[6] Michigan^[7] and Southern California law reviews,^[8] as well as interdisciplinary journals like Law and Social Inquiry,^[9] the Annual Review of Law and Social Science,^[10] and the Law and Society Review.^[11]

Her book, entitled The Passions of Law,^[12] was published by NYU Press in 2000.^[13] She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School^[14] and Northwestern Law School,^[15] a visiting scholar at NYU Law School ^[16] and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of New South Wales.^[17]

Bandes is a member of the American Law Institute,^[18] and has long been active in the Law and Society Association,^[19] where she is the founder (with Jill Hunter (University of New South Wales) and Jody Madeira (University of Indiana)), of the Collaborative Research Network on Law and Emotion.^[20]

Selected publications

Books

• The Passions of Law (NYU Press, 2000)

Book Chapters

• Share Your Grief But Not Your Anger: Victims and the Expression of Emotion in Criminal Justice, Emotional Expression: Philosophical, Psychological, and Legal Perspectives (Smith and Abell eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Empathy, Narrative and Victim Impact Statements, Nussbaum and Law (Robin West ed., Ashgate 2015)
• Remorse and Demeanor in the Courtroom: The Cognitive Science of Evaluating Contrition, The Integrity of Criminal Process: From Theory into Practice (Hunter, Roberts, Young and Dixon eds., Hart Publishing, 2015)
• Law and Emotion, 213 International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science (James D. Wright ed., Elsevier 2nd ed. 2015)

Selected articles

• Emotion, Proof and Prejudice: The Cognitive Science of Gruesome Photos and Victim Impact Statements, 62 Arizona State Law Journal 1003 (2014) (with Jessica Salerno)
• Compassion and the Rule of Law, 13 International Journal of Law in Context (forthcoming 2017)
• Remorse and Criminal Justice, Emotion Review (Special Issue on Law and Emotion, Susan Bandes and Terry Maroney eds.) pp 1–6 (Dec. 2015)
• The Lessons of Capturing the Friedmans: Moral Panic, Institutional Denial, and Due Process, 3 The Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities 93 (2007). Cited extensively in Friedman v. Rehal, (618 F.3d 142 (2d Circuit 2010))
• The Heart Has its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty, 42 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 21 (Austin Sarat ed. 2008)

References

External links

• Susan A. Bandes, official site