Law as Vehicle for Social Connection/Disconnection Peter Gabel, Nanette Schorr

 
To institutionalize through law the goals of social change movements of the past has had a passivizing effect. The criminal justice and civil law has often provided a justification for immoral social arrangements and for a worldview that disconnects us from each other and from the sacred. Can law be reconstructed in ways consonant with and nurturing to the soul rather than its enemy?