Professor June Carbone Professor holds the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to beginning this position in 2013, she was the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). She is an expert in family law, assisted reproduction, property, medicine and bioethics, and also has taught contracts, remedies, financial institutions, civil procedure, and feminist jurisprudence.

In this episode, Professor Carbone discusses a chapter that she co-authored with Naomi Cahn, “Family Law and Emotion” in Bandes, Susan A, et al. Research Handbook on Law and Emotion. 2021.

Professor Carbone describes: 

•  how family law influences people's behaviour and understanding of their emotions
• the research surrounding the physiological responses to sexual desire, romantic love, and attachment and the ways the law influences  emotional constructions
• the emotions behind the recent abortion case in the US 

Twitter: @carbonej