In July 2020, Dr. Ian Marder (Maynooth University Department of Law) and Prof. David Wexler (University of Puerto Rico School of Law) pre-published a new article, entitled Mainstreaming Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence through Higher Education.
Ian and David’s article, which the University of Baltimore Law Review will publish in 2021 in a special issue on therapeutic jurisprudence, argues that higher education professionals who teach restorative justice or therapeutic jurisprudence should collaborate to maximise the proportion of students exposed to these subjects and explore how to express their shared values through andragogical approaches, among other activities. The article also makes the argument for why universities should teach both restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence to all law and criminology students, and describes recent developments in their inclusion in higher education curricula.
You can download the paper from SSRN here.
Ian is engaged in a range of activities regarding restorative justice teaching, and recently organised a series of roundtables for those who teach restorative justice in universities, and a webinar for criminologists on restorative approaches to building trust and relationships in their classrooms. He also published an outline of a restorative justice learning game on the Restorative Teaching Tools website.