The manuscript for Lawyers as Changemakers, The Emerging International Integrative Law Movement has gone to the publisher!  Now the ABA wheels turn toward copyediting, fine-tuning, layout, cover art, and perhaps even tweaking the title before it is released next March-ish.  The final manuscript had 248,993 words.  There are examples of the movement  in action on six continents. 

Writing and editing was an organic process.  Many of you wrote your stories and then I looked to see how that demonstrated integrative law.  I learned a lot and the book that has gone to the publisher reflects what I learned from all the contributors and others I've encountered on my journey.  

Below is a collage of the contributors to the book.  I daresay there is no finer-looking, heart-centered group of lawyers anywhere... until we get together another group of us at some point. 

[If you contributed and don't see your photo, please be in touch.  It means I don't have a photo for you!]

I have a few loose ends to tie up (like doing everything that I have postponed for the last several months!) and the next chapter will begin.

North Carolina >Netherlands>South Africa>India>Australia>TEDx in New York, here I come!

Love,

Kim

If you are planning to attend this conference and are coming from outside South Africa, please let me know!  We are planning a special event for international visitors. 

The College of Law and the Institute For Dispute Resolution in Africa (IDRA) invite you to attend the LAWYERS AS PEACEMAKERS CONFERENCE 14-15 October 2015, Kgorong Function Hall, Unisa Main Campus, Pretoria. 

UNISA’s Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa is pleased to host this exciting conference on the trends, models and approaches that are transforming the legal profession into a peacemaking, problem-solving and healing profession.

In times of challenge, systems change and ecological crisis, the world needs a legal system that strives to resolve core problems, acts as a catalyst for societal transformation, promotes access to justice and engenders lawyer and client satisfaction. Legal models need to be developed that reflect our interconnectedness and create a culture of harmony.

The conference brings together leaders in the international Integrative Law Movement, including many South African innovators.

The objective is to educate, inspire, encourage, and support judges, magistrates, attorneys, advocates, law academics, mediators, policy makers and other legal professionals in gaining perspectives on the progressive shift from adversarial to non-adversarial lawyering.

The central theme of the conference explores the potential for lawyers to become peacemakers, healers, helpers and friends.