Emily Kidd White is a doctoral  candidate  at New York University  School  of Law, where she previously graduated from the LL.M. in International Legal Studies with the Jerome Lipper Prize for distinction. Emily’s performance in the LL.M. resulted in her being awarded a two-year research fellowship at the Jean Monnet Center for Regional and International  Economic Law and Justice and a teaching assistant position with the Institute  for International  Law and Justice,  where her duties included  editorial management of the European Journal of International Law. Previously, Emily graduated with a B.A.H. in Politics and Philosophy (First Class Degree) and a J.D. (Dean’s Honour List) from Queen’s University (Canada). Emily currently holds a Trudeau Foundation Scholarship. Emily’s doctoral research draws upon the philosophy of emotion to provide a novel set of tools to analyze a number of recurring questions about the legal concept of human dignity. It focuses in particular on a number of jurisdictions where human dignity acts as a constitutional value intended to guide judicial interpretations of rights in the context of their violation. It analyzes the various ways emotions work to capture the attention of the presiding judge or judicial panel, the ways they lend a particular resonance or tone to the object of law’s protection, and the manner in which judges sometimes draw on particular emotions, like courage or empathy, to put themselves into a position to analyze a case and its evidence in line with professed legal values.