ABSTRACT
Feeling Queer Jurisprudence intervenes in debates about the limits of legal progress by drawing together widely celebrated and critically reviewed cases that seek to recognise the injury, intimacy, and identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The queer registering of jurisprudential emotions can create space in law to affirm, rather than disavow, intimacies and identities that queer the socio-legal articulation of LGBT progress without having to abandon legal projects to protect LGBT people. Feminist and queer scholarship has foregrounded the analytic and political usefulness of engaging with emotion. Emotion is a means of historical analysis and archival research, a form of politics and activism, a subject of moral philosophy. Reading emotion in pro-LGBT cases allows us, as scholars, to analytically navigate arrangements of injury, intimacy, and identity that emerge in jurisprudence that purports to progress the rights of LGBT people. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
