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... of our great social commentators! Capra and Mattei lay out a vision of “a legal system in tune with nature and community” that posits the possibility of ownership designs that create and maintain conditions for human and ecological communities to flourish. The authors are clear that business as usual...

... (oliviawisestudio.com) As any powerful movement “rises up” in this way, its carriers must enter the legal arena, because the very basis of the movement is to make a claim on the community as a whole for justice, for correcting that which revolts against the high moral consciousness that the movement itself...

..., shock treatment, and methadone. None of these treatments kept him away from mainlining heroin, which he did because he believed he needed it in order to function in the world. He often said he wished that heroin were legal, so that he didn’t have to find illegal, black market ways to score, either...

...Mark Levine; Eric Cheyfitz Ultimately, broadening the sociological understandings and through them legal definitions of genocide will play an important role in the struggles to compel Israel, the United States, and far too many other governments—the Russians, Iranians, the Assad government...

...Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) What if Lady Justice were omnipartial? A new legal culture based on empathy and care might inspire a better use for that blindfold of hers. ...

... kh shaping the conscious­ legal system as a vehicle for fessional years working at AND HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA righting wrongs has caused the law firm of Arnold & MAKING WAVES ness and mission of the m any lawyers...

... but dent, since we are trying to determine what is fair and just rather than what is currently legal. is currently what than rather is just and fair what determine to trying are we since dent, only justified, not are speech commercial on limits which in a context created has...

...—with a little help from our friends. —Ron Hirschbein, Chico, CA TRANSFORM THE LAW I was pleased to see two discussions of restorative justice in the Summer 2015 issue of Tikkun : in Peter Gabel’s visionary essay, “The Spiritual Dimension of Social Justice: Transforming the Legal Arena...

..., but not as much about out for them . This conception of hum an and behavior Halpern describes is an an­ the content of the ideas and practices he motivation and behavior is facilitated by chor for transforming the legal culture in was proposing. One wishes for more our laws of property, contracts...

..., these organizations are now the driving force of legal, ad­ vocacy, and educational work for social change in the country. The past two decades has brought a dram atic increase in the num ber of these social change organizations. There are hundreds of organizations working on issues as diverse...