Restorative Justice Week 2009

JENNIFER LLEWELLYN

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Jennifer Llewellyn is a professor at Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her teaching and research is focused in the areas of the restorative justice, truth commissions, international and domestic human rights law and Canadian constitutional law. She has written and published extensively on the theory and practice of restorative justice in both transitional contexts and established democracies.

Professor Llewellyn is currently the Director of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community University Research Alliance (NSRJ-CURA). The NSRJ-CURA is a collaborative research partnership between university and community partners funded through a five-year, million dollar grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The NSRJ-CURA is focused on the institutionalization of restorative justice practice with particular attention to the example of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program.

Professor Llewellyn is an academic/policy advisor to the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program. She was an advisor to the Assembly of First Nations throughout the negotiation process to provide redress for Indian Residential School abuse which resulted in the creation of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

She worked with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997.

She co-authored a background conceptual paper on restorative justice for the Law Commission of Canada in 1998. She served as an expert witness on restorative justice for the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry in 2002 and this past year assisted with the formulation of a national restorative justice policy for Jamaica as a senior consultant with the United Nations Development Programme.

Professor Llewellyn was a member of the Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict at the Kroc Institute for Peace at Notre Dame University. She is also a member of the Working Party on Restorative Justice (WPRJ) of the Alliance of NGOs on Criminal Prevention and Criminal Justice in New York and currently on the steering group for the Working Party’s Restorative Peacebuilding Project. In conjunction with this work she presented to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.

She is currently co-editing a book on Relational Theory and another on Reconciliation, Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding.