In the fall of 2021, it was realized that due to pandemic restrictions having an in-person national conference would not be possible. Instead, PISLAP organized a series of virtual “Intensives” featuring expert speakers on vital topics of interest.
Following are links to videos of the various presentations:
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE — FANIA DAVIS
SPIRITUALITY AND THE LAW – GLOBAL AND LOCAL APPLICATIONS – Dr. K. Parameswaran and Sylvia Clute
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Through both relational and cognitive learning approaches, participants in this exploratory session looked at both Restorative Justice fundamentals and present-day critical issues at the intersections of restorative justice, racial justice, indigeneity, and healing.
Fania E. Davis is a leading voice on racial and restorative justice. She is a civil rights trial attorney, author and public speaker with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. The murder of two friends in the Birmingham 1963 church bombing led to her lifelong commitment to justice. Co-founder of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and National Association of Community and Restorative Justice, her numerous honors include the Maloney Award for excellence in Youth Restorative Justice and the Ebony POWER 100 award. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. Among her publications is the Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice. This session also included a youth co-trainer.
BRINGING A SPIRITUAL DIMENSION TO LAW PRACTICE (THE MODEL OF THE GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT) – Doug Ammar & Ross Brockway
Friday, October 1, 2021
How can legal service organizations go beyond advocating for the immediate material needs of parties in an adversarial system to actually contribute to the spiritual and relational transformation of lives, communities, and society? At Georgia Justice Project (GJP), we strive to heal deep-seated alienation and create more authentic forms of social relationship—in and outside of the criminal legal system—through practices that are holistic, systemic, and optimistic. We attempt, as Congressman John Lewis once said about GJP, to “creat[e] pockets of the beloved community.” In this PISLAP intensive, which will include voices from our staff, clients, and partners (some of whom will appear in pre-recorded video and others who will join live), we will reflect upon the spiritual dimension of GJP’s work and ask PISLAP members to discuss with us how legal organizations can create beloved community in practices ranging from individual lawyer-client representation to large-scale policy advocacy.
Doug Ammar is the Executive Director of the Georgia Justice Project (“GJP”), where he has been an active presence since its beginning in 1986. During his time as Executive Director, GJP has help change 21 laws in Georgia that have worked to reduce barriers to reentry for people impacted by the criminal justice system. GJP has continued to grow and expand its capacity to serve its clients with support from local foundations and national funders who have acknowledged our work. In 2020, GJP assisted over 6,000 Georgians with criminal justice issues and received a $5 million capacity from the Kendeda Fund; a national funder based in Atlanta.
Doug has received numerous awards for his leading voice in criminal justice reform and reentry, and is an Annie E. Casey Foundation fellow.
Ross Brockway, first as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Georgia Justice Project, and now as a staff attorney, has supported parents to expunge records and obtain employment so they could stabilize their lives and strengthen their families. He also co-wrote draft legislation and formed a working group of advocates committed to reforming child support debt policies, beginning a campaign that will continue until Georgia law is more just and effective for poor families. Part of his work includes representing low-income people in criminal defense cases and criminal record expungement cases, fighting alongside individuals and families as they seek freedom and restoration.
SPIRITUALITY AND THE LAW – GLOBAL AND LOCAL APPLICATIONS – Dr. K. Parameswaran and Sylvia Clute
Saturday, October 2, 2021
An exploration of the 4th dimension of law and justice: spirituality. Without consciously incorporating spirituality into our systems of justice, they are materialistic, inherently unfair and fail to meet our expectations. A deep dive into cutting edge theories for integrating spirituality into law and justice, including the significance of a new concept in legal research and its relevance to professions associated with law and legal systems. Many Americans are calling for criminal legal system reform but few see Justice as Love as the solution. The session will also include the practical application of Unitive Justice, aka “Justice as Love,” to achieve substantive criminal legal system change that begins with incarcerated men and women as the agents of change.
Bringing a Spiritual Dimension to Law: Dr. K. Parameswaran is an Associate Professor of Law, Gujarat National Law University, India Dr. K. Parameswaran has pioneered a new subject in India called Law, Religion, Spirituality & Justice (LRSJ-2016). Dr. Parameswaran believes the integration of spirituality, law and justice is the only way to actually achieve the goals of the Constitutional Law of Nations that guarantees justice, equality, liberty & fraternity to their citizens and that which brings human unity, integral flourishing and perfection of life with peace as well as progressive development to one and all. He teaches and trains this cutting-edge knowledge to law students, advocates, corporates, judges and policy-drafters in addition to other stakeholders. In recognition of this unique research and achievement, he has been honoured with a multitude of national and international distinctions and holds many prestigious positions. He is also proficient in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programing and interested in other fields to increase human potential towards building our universal humanity.
Implementing Justice as Love in Prisons and Schools: Sylvia Clute is the President and Executive Director of the Alliance for Unitive Justice (AUJ). In her presentation, she will outline Unitive Justice theory, its origins and her work with two men, each incarcerated for over 20 years, during which time they changed the prison culture by discovering Justice as Love within themselves and teaching it to their incarcerated peers. These men are making what they did replicable using Clute’s Unitive Justice theory as the framework for a cutting-edge training program that teaches incarcerated men and women to be agents of prison/jail change—while they are in the system. Clute will also share her experience in implementing Unitive Justice in education (UJEd). Formerly a civil trial attorney for 28 years and an author, for over a decade she has been implementing Unitive Justice in schools and teaching Unitive Justice at the university level. AUJ (www.a4uj.org) will soon offer a three-tiered certification program in Unitive Justice school culture change for school administrators, teachers and school staff. Clute is recognized both as an innovator within the legal system and as a social justice activist.
FROM NATURE’S RIGHTS TO WHOLISTIC LAW – Mumta Ito
Monday, October 4, 2021
At the heart of our multiple interconnected emergencies is an old paradigm encoded in law that drives our societal systems on autopilot in a degenerative cycle of destruction that ultimately leads to extinction. Law drives the way our systems operate - if we encode a new paradigm in law we start to turn the wheel the other way, programming our societal systems for regeneration. The regenerative cycle is the foundation of an “ecological conversion” which will require a new paradigm and new sets of behaviours that align human activity with the ecological systems that govern and sustain all life, producing more desirable outcomes for society and the rest of Nature. Mumta will speak about the Nature's Rights approach and how changing the legal and governance structure at a fundamental level will bring about this societal shift.
Mumta Ito is the founder and president of the charity Nature's Rights and sees law as a vehicle for social transformation in a paradigm of restoration, reparation and healing. She is one of Europe's leading experts and advocates for the rights of Nature, European co-ordinator for the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network, lead author of a Draft EU Directive for the rights of Nature, initiator of a European Citizens Initiative to include the rights of nature on the EU legislative agenda and co-author of the EESC proposal for an EU Charter for the Fundamental Rights of Nature. Mumta holds a degree in Zoology, is an award-winning public speaker and a systemic constellations practitioner who has facilitated healing workshops around the world. Her multi-cultural background, spiritual training and practice of yoga and meditation from childhood stands her in good stead to understand the complexity of our inner and outer relationship with Nature from various perspectives. Her focus is on realigning law - living and written - with the universal laws that govern all life and facilitating inner and outer transformation.
TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF LEGAL SERVICES WORK --- ANTOINETTE DELRUELLE & NANETTE SCHORR Joined by Lenina Trinidad & Vicki Gibson
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Tuesday, October 4, Transformative Mediation in the Context of Legal Services work, (Antoinette Delruelle, Nanette Schorr +)
Join attorneys practicing divorce mediation with low-income community members in New York City for a discussion of the transformative potential of mediation. How can the promise of mediation for self-determination, healing and ongoing connection be realized? Do legal systems erect obstacles to these aspirations? How can we help mediation reach its higher potential? How does practicing mediation impact us as legal practitioners? There will be opportunities for dialogue and a practice exercise of “looping” (the kind of reflective listening used in mediation). No need to have prior mediation experience to join.
Antoinette Delruelle has been a mediator since 2009 and an attorney since 1994. Before starting the Mediation Project in 2013, she was a senior attorney in NYLAG’s Matrimonial & Family Law Unit of which she also served as director from 2001 to 2004. She has taught mediation to legal services attorneys and court staff professionals and has participated as a teaching assistant at mediation trainings of the Center for Understanding in Conflict. She has been a mediator for the New York City Family Court Mediation Program since 2013, and president of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York from 2014 to 2016 and is currently on the board of the Center for Understanding in Conflict. She is a member of the state-wide ADR Advisory Committee formed by Chief Judge DiFiore in April 2018 to give her recommendations on how to increase the use of ADR in the NYS court system.
Nanette Schorr is supervising attorney of the Education Law Practice at Bronx Legal Services, where she has been an attorney since 1987, and practiced in the fields of education law and family law. She co-leads with Antoinette Delruelle a family law mediation partnership which provides divorce mediation to low-income couples. Nanette is also a member of the PISLAP Executive Committee.
Vicki Gibson has been an attorney since 2014. She began training as a mediator in 2012 and went on to work in the mediation department of the EEOC, where she mediated employment disputes prior to court involvement. She joined Legal Services NYC in 2016 and has been mediating divorces through their family law mediation partnership, as well as through the Kings County Supreme Court matrimonial panel of mediators.
Lenina Trinidad is a senior attorney at Manhattan Legal Services, where she represents survivors of domestic violence in Family and Supreme Court. She has also been mediating divorces at Legal Services NYC. Lenina has spoken on panels looking at the intersection of racial, social and economic justice and the role of the law, and is deeply interested in holistic approaches to legal representation.
This conference was held October 14-18, 2018 in Washington DC at the American University School of Law.
The full agenda can be found here.
Following are links to videos of the various presentations:
Legal Education: Rebuilding the Curriculum
Restorative, Transformative, and Community Accountability Responses to Sexual Harm
Keynote Speaker: Fania E. Davis
Transforming Law Practice: Bringing a Spiritual Dimension to Practice in Diverse Settings
Restorative Justice, Racial Harm, and Healing
How do contemplative practices by lawyers promote justice and social change?
Opening Keynotes: History and Mission of the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics (PISLAP)
The history and mission of PISLAP was the focus of our opening keynote addresses, along with an introduction to PISLAP’s four “pillars” that were explored during the conference.
Nanette Schorr, co-founder PISLAP; Peter Gabel, co-founder PISLAP
Legal Education: Rebuilding the Curriculum
How do the most basic doctrinal concepts and methods of legal analysis—the traditional focus of each lawyer’s education—manifest the idea of humans as separate, alienated beings? And how, as doctrinal professors and clinicians, can we help our students explore healing interventions that create spiritually meaningful human connection and link the achievement of that connection with doing justice?
Susan Brooks, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning & Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law; Chaumtoli Huq, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law; Peter Gabel, Editor-at-Large, Tikkun magazine, Professor of Law, John F. Kennedy Law School, Professor of Social-spiritual Activism, Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley.
Restorative, Transformative, and Community Accountability Responses to Sexual Harm
A panel examined a variety of alternative approaches to address and respond to sexual harm in our world. Panelists discussed the benefits and unique hurdles each must address to operate within communities and on college campuses.
Gretchen Casey, Director of Restorative Justice Training, Outreach, and Advocacy, River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; Jonathan Scharrer, Director of the Restorative Justice Project, University of Wisconsin Law School; Jordan Draper, Dean of Students, Title IX Coordinator, College of New Jersey; Mary Koss, Professor of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Gender and Women’s Studies
Keynote Speaker: Fania E. Davis
Fania is a leading national voice on restorative justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, civil rights trial attorney, restorative justice practitioner, writer, professor and scholar with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. She founded and directed Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) in Oakland CA.
Transforming Law Practice: Bringing a Spiritual Dimension to Practice in Diverse Settings
One of PISLAP's aims is to transform law practice away from its exclusively analytical focus on vindicating rights and toward fostering deeper engagement with clients while pursuing remedies that have transformative potential. This plenary explored ways of accomplishing this shift in a variety of legal contexts-- as judges in court, in the delivery of legal service, in legal representation of immigrants at the border during the current time of crisis, and while advocating as lawyers in a civil rights context.
Nanette Schorr, Co-founder, PISLAP, legal services attorney; Hon. Bruce Peterson Hennepin County Minnesota District Court Judge; Ross Brockway, Equal Justice Fellow, The Georgia Justice Project; Eddie Hailes, Jr., Managing Director and General Counsel, the Advancement Project.
Keynote Speaker: Jamie Raskin
Jamie is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, and a law professor at AU.
Restorative Justice, Racial Harm, and Healing
This plenary explored the expanding restorative justice efforts underway around the country to remediate and heal historical harm.
Kat Culberg, Director of Re-entry, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY); Desiree Anderson, Director, Intercultural Center at Saint Mary’s College of California; Jodie Geddes, Community Organizing Coordinator, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY); Jonathan Scharrer, Director of the Restorative Justice Project, University of Wisconsin Law School.
How do contemplative practices by lawyers promote justice and social change?
Experienced and new lawyer/practitioners discussed their approach to law and life have shifted through contemplative practices and how they have used a variety of techniques for insight, strength, compassion and resilience in the struggle for justice and social change.
Moderator: Alizabeth Newman, Int. Executive Director, Alumni Engagement and Initiatives, CUNY School of Law. Panelists: Sina Choi, staff attorney, Housing Works; Nicholle Kopping-Pavars, attorney, agent, Office of the Children’s Lawyer; Stu Webb, founder Collaborative Law concept; Thalia González, Senior Visiting Scholar, Georgetown Law School, Associate Professor, Occidental College
Building Bridges Between Parallel Movements
This session will brought together representatives from movements such as Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Positive Psychology, the AALS Balance section, the Solidarity Economy, and the Relational Practices Task Force to discuss the intersection of each group’s mission with the PISLAP vision of integrating spirituality, law, and politics. Panelists explored the challenges and opportunities in working together to achieve justice on the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels beyond that offered by the existing legal system.
Marjorie Silver, Director of Externship Programs and Professor of Law, Touro Law Center; Lisle Baker, Professor of Law, Suffolk Law School; Susan Jones, Professor of Clinical Law, The George Washington University Law School; Linda Warren Seely, Director, Section of Dispute Resolution, American Bar Association; Amy Uelmen, Visiting Lecturer, Research fellow at Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University Law Center
Drexel Law Professor and main conference organizer Susan Brooks: "We are in a climate of extremism that calls upon us to figure out how we can move in this direction of 'Beloved Community', invoking the objective underlying the late Rev. Martin Luther King's quest for nonviolent social change."
Sharing Stories and Reflections on Building and Sustaining a Beloved Community
In June of 2016 Drexel University hosted a PISLAP Conference on Beloved Community. This creative gathering in Philadelphia represented a unique collaboration and a blending of efforts on behalf of the national PISLAP Community and local lawyers and community activists. The conference featured in part the work of Drexel Law’s Community Lawyering Clinic, which is housed at a university-sponsored space in West Philadelphia called the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. A write-up of the conference can be found here: LINK
PISLAP responded with a call that offered an opportunity to reflect back on the conference and to hear some of the developments that have taken place connected to the work of Drexel’s Community Lawyering Clinic since that time. It also provided participants with an opportunity to share their own stories and reflections on the opportunities and challenges of trying to engage deeply in community-building, social justice-oriented work that is truly creative and collaborative.
This conference was held June 3-5, 2016 in Philadelphia, PA at the Drexel University School of Law.
2016 PISLAP CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday June 3, 2016
3:30 – 4:30 pm Registration
4:30 – 6:00 pm Opening Program (Welcome and Introductions)
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 – 9:00 pm “JUST ACT!” Pop-Up Theater
Saturday June 4, 2016
8:00 – 9 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:45 amGuided Meditation led by Kara Dansky
9:00 – 10 am Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics (Plenary I)
This session will present the history of PISLAP and discuss our efforts to help transform our legal system so as to foster the creation of a society based on empathy, compassion, and mutual understanding: a beloved community. In addition to discussing our history and mission, the session will attempt to provide an aspirational framework for the diversity of workshops and lightning talks that will follow. At the Sunday morning session, we will then reflect on how well we have been able to integrate spirituality, law, and politics over the course of the conference.
10:00 – 11:30 am Workshops: Part I
AT LAW SCHOOL:
1. Restorative Justice for Building Community and Addressing Conflict: An Introduction to Circles and Conferencing
Kendra Brooks, Koury Cook, Mika Dashman, Jonathan Scharrer
Restorative justice is a set of principles and practices tracing its roots to traditional societies. It emphasizes healing, accountability for harmful acts, self-determination, and interconnection. In this experiential workshop you will learn the basic structure of two restorative models—conferencing and circles—and how these practices can replace adversarial, punitive systems and with inclusive, collaborative approaches to crime and conflict.
2. The Courtroom as an Arena of Moral Opportunity
Judge Maria Arias, Judge Richardson-Mendelson
This workshop will explore the following questions:
Is it possible to bring a moral, ethical dimension to the Courtroom arena?
Within the context of the courtroom process is it possible to explicitly explore our common humanity and capacity for social healing?
Are there examples in the courtroom where this has occurred? What are the necessary conditions that can create this environment?
How do we cultivate a certain attention and practice that facilitate this?
3. From the Cushion to the Very Heart of the Struggle for Social Transformation: Mindful Self-Care Practices for Social Justice Advocates
Victor Goode, Jeanne Anselmo, Alizabeth Newman, Jonathan Harris
Since 2000, CUNY School of Law's Contemplative Lawyers have uniquely woven the personal transformation found in contemplative practice with the social transformation of social justice. Those involved have discovered within themselves that the meditative perspective lies at the very core of being fully engaged in the pursuit of social justice through the law. This practiceshop shares essential Contemplative Lawyering offerings (practices) by members of the CUNY Contemplative Community including: Mindful awareness, Self Compassion, Trauma Stewardship, Therapeutic Presence, Deep Listening and Cultivating Beloved Community.
4. Movement Lawyering 101: Strategies for Advancing Social Justice and Making a Lasting Impact
Rachel Lopez, Olegbenga Oke-Samuel, Azadeh Shahshahani, Artika Tyner
This workshop will examine the relationship between law and organizing, the skills needed to serve a movement lawyer, and opportunities for law students and new attorneys to engage in current social movements of the day. It will also examine how we as radical legal activists can take care of ourselves and each other, and how our faith and spirituality affects our lawyering. This program will provide participants with a background on movement lawyering in the US and globally as well as theoretical distinctions with the more professionalized "public interest law." It will also examine successful models in which lawyers have engaged with peoples and movements, and how lawyers can support alternative modes of organizing that build power distinct from litigation strategies, and discuss structural and personal challenges in this work.
5. Integrating Spirituality, Law & Social Change Across the Curriculum: Experiential Reflection on Power, Oppression and Transformation
Michele Leering, Marjorie Silver, Shari Motro, Angie Gius
Join us to explore new ways to integrate spirituality, law, and politics into legal education:
Engage in reflective activities ranging from free writing to Theatre of the Oppressed.
Visually map the myriad reflective practices for connecting justice, power, and law.
Discuss how legal education can challenge existing legal paradigms, moving us toward relational and healing approaches to conflict and justice.
Be refreshed, and leave ready to act on your own plan for reflective change-making.
AT DORNSIFE CENTER:
6. Transformative Lawyering, Community Partnerships and the Power of Re-Entry Court
Maya Sosnov, Katie Beran, Fred Crawford, Cyndi Zuidema, Robert Warner, Kristin Parker, Nicholas Hubner
The Supervision to Aid Reentry (“STAR”) program in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has partnered with area law schools and community organizations to better support returning citizens upon release from incarceration. This workshop will examine the Federal Reentry Court as a national model for the Reentry Court movement in the era of mass incarceration and discuss the transformative role it plays for returning citizens, legal interns, attorneys, and judges alike.
7. Towards a Modern "Village": Seeking Justice for Vulnerable Youth through Collaboration and Partnership
Jesse Krohn, Claire Grandison, Jamie Gullen, Ashley Sawyer, Joanna Visser Adjoian
This workshop will highlight and examine holistic, Philadelphia-based approaches to addressing issues including the over-criminalization of youth of color, the lack of legally required special education supports in classrooms, and the income insecurity many young people face as they try to enter the workforce, with the goal of highlighting collaborative approaches that provide real opportunities for young people to thrive.
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45Plenary II- Initial Reflections and Sharing from Morning Workshops
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 pm Lightning Talks (LAW BUILDING) (Choose Session A or Session B)
Film and Discussion TBA (DORNSIFE CENTER)
Lightning Talks-Session A: Moderator-Peter Gabel
LT1. White People & Anti-racism: How to be Effective Allies
Perry Saidman
This talk will include a discussion of racism and white privilege, including why white people need to take the lead in anti-racism efforts, and specific suggestions for doing so.
LT2. Community Engaged Art Making: Improving the Health of Philadelphia’s Most Vulnerable Populations
Laure Biron, Ellissa Collier
Attendees will come away with an understanding of how different fields, art, criminal justice and behavioral health, can come together to advance public health and restorative justice.
LT3. Hero vs. Partner— An Exploration of How to Make Change through
Partnering with Community Members-
Karla Cruel
This talk proposes an inclusive methodology to change the current state of our society by exploring how our own cultural influences inform both our interactions with those whom we serve and our solutions to the problems.
Lightning Talks-Session B: Moderator-Nanette Schorr
LT4. People’s Tribunals
Rodrigo Bacus, Azadeh Shahshahani
This talk will focus on the International People's Tribunal in the Philippines to give a background on how values of mutual respect, empathy, and compassion are promoted through the investigation and validation of a people's struggles through a people's tribunal.
LT5. A Humanistic Dialogue Approach to Interviewing: Developing Narrative and Shared Understanding
Jonathan Scharrer
This session will explore the humanistic dialogue approach to interviewing a client that focuses on building rapport and engaging in deep listening, which can often create shared understanding between parties who have caused and experienced harm.
LT6. Restorative Justice: Imperatives in Criminal Justice Administration in Nigeria
Akintunde Adebayo
This talk will examine restorative justice as justice mechanism innovation which could guarantee non-custodial treatment for crime offenders and forestall recidivism as well as prison congestion which characterize the Nigerian criminal justice system.
3:00 – 3:15 pmBreak
3:15 – 4:45 pm Workshops: Part II
4:45 – 5:00 pmBreak
5:00 – 6:30 pmCocktail Hour & Dinner
6:30 – 8:00 pmMLK Performance and Dialogue
Sunday June 5, 2016
***ALL SUNDAY ACTIVITIES WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE DORNSIFE CENTER
8:00 – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:45 am Guided Meditation led by Kara Dansky
9:00 – 9:30 am Platform Plank Drafting/Discussion (Optional)
9:30 – 11:15 am Reflections on Our Efforts and Next Steps (Plenary III)
This final plenary will consider how imaginatively and effectively we have addressed the integration of spirituality, law, and politics over the course of the conference. We will get reports back from all the workshops connecting the discussions that took place with our larger themes, and we will discuss as a group our hopes for building PISLAP and extending our influence in the coming year.
11:15 – noon Closing Program & Goodbyes
Following are links to videos of the various presentations:
Spirit of Law Conference Opening
Spirit of Law Vision: Bruce Peterson, Maria Arias and Victor Goode
Spirit of Law on Restorative Justice: Andy Artz, Fania Davis, and Jonathan Scharrer
Spirit of Law Implementing the Vision: Rhonda Magee
Implementing the Vision: Nanette Schorr and Peter Gabel
Spirit of Law Closing Gathering: Nanette Schorr and Peter Gabel
Introduction to Network of Spiritual Progressives: Cat Zavis
This conference was held September 12-14, 2014 at the CUNY School of Law, with the theme: “Creating a Legal System that Fosters Empathy, Compassion and Mutual Understanding.”following are videos to some of the presentations.
City University of New York, New York city
Conference Opening
Vision Plenary: Bruce Peterson, Maria Arias and Victor Goode
Restorative Justice: Andy Artz, Fania Davis, and Jonathan Scharrer
Implementing the Vision: Rhonda Magee Plenary on Legal Education, Community Lawyering & the Courtroom: Doug Ammar, Lenny Noisette, and Rhonda Magee
Implementing the Vision: Nanette Schorr and Peter Gabel
Closing Gathering
Introduction to Network of Spiritual Progressives: Cat Zavis
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