Justice Conversation – Love, Law, Practice, Effects, and the Human Shape of Justice

Love is the Foundation of Justice

Whether in criminal justice, school discipline, or social action, Justice is not served except through Love. Read more...

For Living

Reflections on life experiences and justice, exploration and awareness through arts and writing, and spiritual practices to nurture justice.

For Teaching

Tools and research for classrooms and school administrators emphasizing restorative practice and positive discipline.

For Working

Book reviews, reflections, research, and professional development for people working with or within the justice system.

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The Conscious Lawyer: An Interview with Elaine Quinn, Editor

Elaine Quinn is the editor of The Conscious Lawyer, a professional magazine and website devoted to positive, socially aware developments in legal practice and thinking. Elaine has also contributed thought provoking, in-depth book reviews on this Justice Conversation website. I asked Elaine if she would be willing to share with...

Justice Holds the Broken Tenderly

Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, January 9th. Her crime seems to me to echo the extreme brutality she endured throughout her own life. She experienced rape more times than can be counted, including gang rapes by her stepfather’s friends, sodomy, and being sold for sex with...

Centering Prayer

People working for justice are regularly witnesses of others’ pain. Often those painful circumstances rearrange the other person’s life, or even ends it. Justice workers, and in fact all of us, need to practice self care in order to not close down, give into anger, harden, retreat, project, or attack....