EBOOK Ideology, Psychology, and Law

Formally, the law purports to be based solely in reasoned analysis, devoid of        ideological bias or unconscious influences. Judges claim to act as umpires applying        the rules, not making them. As most legal scholars understand, however, the        impression that the legal system projects is largely an illusion. Over the last        decade or so, political scientists and legal academics have begun studying the        linkages between ideologies, on one hand, and legal principles and policy outcomes        on the other. This book is the first to bring many of the world's experts on those        topics together to examine the sometimes unsettling interactions between psychology,        ideology, and law.