The Center for Justice Reform is proud to announce this year’s Professional Certificate in Restorative Justice Scholarship Recipients. Read on to hear from each of these outstanding students.
Every year, the RJ4All International Institute celebrates International Restorative Justice Week. This year, RJ Week took place from November 21 – 28, and the National Center on Restorative Justice (NCORJ) marked […]
In her newly published book, The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy, VLS Adjunct Professor Katharine Blake explores the aftermath of a crime that changed her family, and career, forever. The crime? Her 16-year old cousin’s seemingly random murder of a nine-year old boy while suffering from a “psychotic break.”
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.
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 […]
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 […]
The Death of George Floyd: The Laws and Limits of Minnesota’s Homicide Statutes
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
