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17 U. St. Thomas L.J. 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/usthomlj17 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, LAW, AND HEALING HENRY J. SHEA* Restorative justice, which is rooted in seeking healing and accountabil- ity from harm, has not been well recognized or widely practiced for much of this nation's existence. But it has increasingly received growing attention in recent years from many persons and organizations. These include those seeking to reform our criminal justice system, heal the scourge of clergy sexual abuse, and address racial injustice or inequality. For the past two years, I have co-taught a Crime, Punishment, and Restorative Justice course at the University of St. Thomas (UST) School of Law with Father Daniel Griffith, a Catholic priest and lawyer who also serves as the liaison for restorative justice and healing for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In the summer of 2019, Father Griffith and Nathaniel Fouch, one of our students and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal's symposium editor, envisioned the need and opportunity to host a symposium on restorative justice. They hoped that this gathering would break new ground in presenting key developments in the use of restorative justice and better inform the public and academia about restorative justice's amazing possibilities to bring healing from harm. The resulting symposium and this publication produced by the UST Law Journal offer a new and expanded voice to the discussion on restora- tive justice's application throughout numerous aspects of society in venues ranging from schools to religious institutions and from our streets to our prisons. In reality, restorative justice can be practiced almost everywhere- wherever there have been unaddressed harms and inadequate remedies. The need for this growing discussion on restorative justice has only become more apparent since the October 25, 2019, symposium, with the long-ig- nored and festering racial injustices and inequalities that have finally been recognized as a result of the police killings of George Floyd and too many other unarmed Black persons. We desperately require the avenues that re- storative justice can provide to begin to listen and learn how persons of * Henry (Hank) J. Shea is a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and a Fellow at its Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions (www.stthomas.edu/hollorancenter). He can be reached at hjshea@stthomas.edu. 1

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