Renata Grossi is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the relationship between law and emotion. In theoretical terms she is interested in how the relationship builds upon a critical understanding of law. In practice she has written on the meaning of romantic love in various legal doctrines. She uses private law, mostly contracts, as her archive. More recently she is investigating how we understand agreement in contract law and whether a law and emotion paradigm can move us away from classical and neo-classical theories of contract, and push the boundaries of how we theorise contract law. Ultimately this project leads to us to ask whether contract law can engage in questions of social justice and therefore be part of projects that steer the market away from a neo-liberal predatory paradigm. 

She is currently leading a research project which considers the practice and the power of the contract in the provision of counselling services in Australia. Her other current projects are on how feminist methodological discourses can influence law and emotion scholarship, and on law's rhetoric around the relationship of money and intimacy. 

Some of her most recent and relevant publications are: Contracts in Life and Law, a series of six blogs for theSocio- Legal Studies Association of the UK Blog (2024); ‘What can contract law learn from MeToo?’ Journal of Law and Society, (2022); ‘Law Emotion and the objectivity debate Griffith law Review, 2019 28(1) and 'Love as a disadvantage in law' Journal of Law and Society, 2018 45(2). She is also the author of Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (2014 ANU Press) and co-author of The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives (2017 Routledge).