Dr. Lindsey Pointer, assistant director of the National Center on Restorative Justice and an assistant professor at VLS, recently published her second book focusing on restorative justice practices. Published […]
February 18, 2021 By Kyla Schweber MARJ’21 Introduction Restorative justice differs from the traditional adversarial process, which tends to be a very cookie-cutter form of justice. In the current correctional […]
February 18, 2021 By Robert Sand Founding Director, Center for Justice Reform The New Year invites a time for family and reflection, sometimes even reflections on our own childhood. Thinking […]
January 14, 2021 While a growing number of Master of Arts in Restorative Justice (MARJ) students are now official graduates and have gone on to new jobs, experiences, and even […]
January 8, 2021 Karla Barron MARJ’21 Vermont Law School students Karla Barron MARJ’21 and Caleb Sabatka MARJ’21 recently combined forces to submit public comments to the Department of Labor opposing […]
November 16, 2020 By Karla Barron MARJ’21 Everyone is feeling something. The uplifted weight of the false and negative rhetoric that now lies in defeat. It is a sigh of […]
July 24, 2020 Q&A with Derek Miodownik MARJ’21, Community and Restorative Justice Executive for the Vermont Department of Corrections, and online student in the Masters of Restorative Justice Program at VLS. […]
The Death of George Floyd: The Laws and Limits of Minnesota’s Homicide Statutes
March 6, 2020 Scarcity Training at Vermont Law School Growing up and living with scarcity impacts decision-making and judgment. On Friday, March 6, 2020, 50 people working in court diversion […]
July 19, 2018
In June, the Vermont Law School’s Center for Justice Reform held the 2018 International Restorative Justice Conference: Global Unity and Healing in Burlington, Vermont at the UVM Dudley H. Davis Conference Center. Over 350 people attended from Vermont, across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.