Tune in to hear a conversation about why teshuva transcends our systems of justice.
Interview begins at 17:13.
Martha Minow is a legal scholar and professor at Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 1981. Martha serves as the 12th dean of Harvard Law School, was a candidate mentioned to replace Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens upon his retirement, and has served as chair of the MacArthur Foundation. Martha clerked for Judge David Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States, and is the author of many articles and books on matters of civil procedure, constitutional law, and human and religious rights.
References:
“Warren Studies Talmudic Law Here”
The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar by Jack H. Bloom
When Should Law Forgive? by Martha Minow
Netivot Olam, Netiv Hatshuva 2
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
On Apology by Aaron Lazare
Mea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and Reconciliation by Nicholas Tavuchis