(Wilf Impact Center Conversations) How Can The Criminal Legal System Offer Restorative Justice Approaches?

DATE
Thursday, October 19, 2023

TIME
12:50 p.m.–1:50 p.m.
Pizza will be served.

LOCATION
W320

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Our legal system asks: What law was broken? What should the sentence be? Restorative Justice asks: Who was hurt? What do they need to heal? Who needs to take responsibility?

Please join Professor Susan Abraham and guest speaker, Erika Sasson, lawyer and restorative justice facilitator, for a discussion about how a restorative process can fill the need for reconciliation, healing, and accountability after a violent crime has occurred. She will explain how a restorative process she facilitated following a homicide came to be, and the role it played in the process.

This event is co-sponsored by the Restorative Justice Project and NYLS Student Organizations: Restorative Justice Law Student Association, Criminal Law Society, and the National Lawyers Guild Chapter.

NYLS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend.