The Virginia Law Review is proud to host, in collaboration with Professor Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and the Virginia Law in Prison Project, a symposium on “Therapeutic Justice.”
February 12, 2026 (Caplin Pavilion)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM — Keynote Address by Judge Ronnie Abrams
February 13, 2026 (Purcell Reading Room)
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM — Breakfast
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM — Opening Remarks
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM — Panel One: Lessons from the Field of Therapeutic Justice
- Clyde J. “Butch” Tate II—Chief Counsel at All Rise (National Association of Treatment Court Professionals), 19th Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Army
- Douglas Marlowe—Senior Scientific Consultant at All Rise (National Association of Treatment Court Professionals)
- Amanda Berman—Deputy Director at Regional Programs at Center for Justice Innovation
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM — Panel Two: The Perils of Therapeutic Criminal Law
- Erin Collins—S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at Richmond Law School
- Benjamin Levin—Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law
- Kay Levine—Richard H. Clark Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM — Lunch Break
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM — Roundtable Discussions
- Andrew Block—Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
- Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR)
- The Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender
- Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Virginia
- New River Valley Community Services
- Harrisonburg / Rockingham Adult Recovery Court
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM — Panel Three: Theoretical Perspectives of Therapeutic Criminal Justice
- Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg—Professor of Law at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
- Deborah Tuerkheimer—James B. Haddad Professor of Law at Northwestern Law
- Sandra Mayson—Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Adam Kolber—Robert Kaufman Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
3:15 PM — Closing Remarks
A series of Articles accompanying the Symposium will be published in the April issue of the Virginia Law Review.