Terry Maroney, the Robert S. and Theresa L. Reder Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, was named to the advisory panel of the Global Judicial Wellbeing Research Hub (GJWRH).
The GJWRH serves as a free global resource for judiciaries, judicial associations, and judicial institutions committed to strengthening judicial resilience and integrity through evidence-based action. The primary objective of this platform is to enable judiciaries, judges’ associations, and judicial institutes worldwide to conduct surveys on judicial well-being. This initiative emerged from a growing recognition that judicial well-being is not merely a professional necessity but a systemic imperative.
Professor Maroney’s work on the role of emotion in judicial behavior and decision-making forms the backbone of her scholarly focus. Weaving legal analysis together with the psychology, sociology and philosophy of emotion, she illuminates how emotional experiences, dynamics, and their management interact with the constraints and demands of varied judicial roles, with deep implications for judges and the public they serve. Her publications in this space —which include “(What We Talk About When We Talk About) Judicial Temperament,” “Angry Judges,” “Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior” and “The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion”—have been widely read among the U.S. judiciary.
She frequently consults with and presents to judicial audiences in both the United States and abroad. With Judge Jeremy Fogel (now retired) and the Federal Judicial Center, she co-founded a novel intensive seminar focused on the human side of judging, now offered regularly to mid-career federal judges.
