ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 presents a summary of the book’s empirical results and thereafter develops and discusses the theoretical implications relating to its main concepts: the emotive-cognitive judicial frame, emotional profiles, and background emotions. We conclude that the emotive-cognitive judicial frame lacks workable concepts for disentangling and evaluating emotional information. The judicial frame thus serves a disciplining and performative function by excluding emotions from the professional arena. Background emotions sustain and reproduce this silencing of emotions in the various dimensions of legal practice. Our analysis, however, shows that emotional processes are fundamental to legal practice as well as to professional life at large.
