Event Description
The CFLS is excited to welcome Professor Zoë Sinel for a lecture on the chapter “Love and Loss” from her new book, Just Feelings: A Tort Law Theory of Emotion, which explores what several key emotions—fear, spite, distress, pain, and regret—mean in tort law.
The discussion will span:
- How, as emotions enter the law of torts in a legally salient way, their core meanings must be juridical, thus demarcating the rightful and equal bounds of our just interactions.
- How love and loss appear to provide the basis for bereavement damages.
- A novel argument for a legitimate basis for bereavement damages not based on the feelings of love or grief.
Light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. No registration is required for in-person attendees.
Speaker
Zoë Sinel is an Associate Professor at Western Law. She researches and teaches in private law and legal theory, with a particular focus on the law of torts and its remedies.
She has published doctrinal and theoretical work in leading domestic and international law journals, including the University of Toronto Law Journal, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Torts Law Journal, and the Restitution Law Review. Her current research project is a SSHRC-funded monograph on tort law’s treatment of emotions, entitled Just Feelings: A Tort Law Theory of Emotion. She was a founding member of another SSHRC-funded project, the Tort Law and Social Equality Project, a website devoted to the creation of a network of tort law scholars to engage with the social contexts in which tort law develops and the marginalized groups it affects.
She was awarded Western University’s Faculty Scholar designation from 2020-2022 and is currently editor, alongside Andrew Botterell, of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.
Prior to her appointment in 2013, Professor Sinel was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. She completed her doctorate in law (SJD) at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Ernest Weinrib.
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