LAW9530-1.Restorative Justice.Su14.Vogel,Howard

Howard Vogel

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

LAW

Course Subject

LAW

Course Number

9530

Course Section

1

Course Title

Restorative Justice

Academic Term and Year

Summer 2014

Credits

2.00

Area of Study

ADRC, LTPR

Course Description

This course offers students an opportunity to study the four leading Restorative Justice practices: (1) Talking Circles; (2) Victim-Offender Mediation; (3) Family Group Conferencing; and (4) Truth Commissions. The course will examine the principles underlying these Restorative Justice practices and explore the possibilities Restorative Justice offers to move beyond the limits of a retributive sense of justice toward embracing the importance of forgiveness, reconciliations, and social healing in the community. Application of Restorative principles and practices to disputes rooted in ethnic and cultural conflict in the United States will receive extended attention during the last third of the course. The class will be intensively experiential in nature with the practice of the talking circle serving as a core modality for class discussion. Due to the course's highly experiential nature, enrollment is strictly limited to 24 students. There is no prerequisite for this course. Every Other Year Course

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