The aim of this one-day, virtual gathering is to explore the applicability of restorative justice content and practices in the law school context and what restorative approaches have to offer the field of legal education.
The existing criminal legal system replenishes itself regularly with newly minted graduates and other professionals educated and trained in an adversarial model. This classical education teaches criminal justice leaders to use the law, rules, and procedures to maximize the strength of their own position, while highlighting and exploiting the weaknesses of the adversary. Educating undergraduate, graduate, and law students in the adversarial model perpetuates the use of the adversarial model.
Bringing restorative justice to the law school context interrupts this cycle and equips the next generation of criminal justice professionals to bring the restorative justice approach to bear in reforming the current system.
This event is an opportunity to learn more about restorative justice and to explore as a community of law students how restorative justice might be brought into law school classrooms and communities. This event centers the perspectives of current law students, aspiring law students, and graduates from any law school in the United States, but is open to law school faculty and administrators. There is no requirement of previous knowledge of restorative justice to attend and the event is free of charge, though advanced registration is required.
Current law students, recent law school graduates, future law students
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