Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

Kathryn D. Temple is a professor of law & humanities at Georgetown University and a three-term former chair of the English Department. Her most recent book, Loving Justice (NYU Press, 2019), focused on legal emotions in eighteenth-century England, while her current project, entitled “Ambivalence: Law, Culture, and the Invention of a Modern Emotion,” under contract at NYU Press, explores the emergence of neo-emotions. She has published widely on the history of legal emotions with essays in Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation and The Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities, among others, and was a co-editor of the Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her work has been supported by several NEH fellowships, the Australian Research Council Senior Distinguished Visitor Fellowship, a Mellon grant, the ACLS Burkhardt, and, most recently, a Senior Research Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study, Ruhr University Alliance, Essen, Germany.