Contact Information
- (509) 313-3747
- laurent@gonzaga.edu
Education & Curriculum Vitae
J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2005
B.A., Westminster College, 2002
About
Gonzaga’s Jesuit, Catholic, Humanistic education will challenge and inspire you.
Inga N. Laurent, J.D.
Professor of Law
Inga is a Fulbright Scholar and teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, evidence, and dispute resolution. Her expertise is centered around restorative, transitional, and transformative justice, which she implements locally and globally through...
Inga is a Fulbright Scholar and teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, evidence, and dispute resolution. Her expertise is centered around restorative, transitional, and transformative justice, which she implements locally and globally through research, training, and generative design. She believes deeply in our human capacity for goodness while concurrently recognizing the world is fraught with challenges that frequently cause us suffering, distracting us from developing into our better selves. Inga also believes in the power of truth even (or especially) when difficult to hear, accept, or acknowledge. That grappling with hard truths creates immense possibility, fostering the conditions for wellness and wholeness to emerge. Her work – both internally and externally – is to facilitate truth, and honor its presence once it arrives through nurturing, responsive, generative, and sustained individual and communal action.
- Addressing the Toll of Truth Telling (Forthcoming Spring 2023 – Brooklyn Law Review)
- International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice – North America Volume. A Better Measure: New Metrics for Restorative Culture in Schools and Beyond. (Forthcoming 2022; co-authored with Julie Schaffer & Leah Wilborn Neese)
- International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice – North America Volume. Washington: Broadening the Understanding, Definition, and Practice of Restorative Justice. (Forthcoming 2022; co-authored with Barb Toews & Jimmy McCarty)
- From Retribution to Restoration: Implementing Nationwide Restorative Justice Initiatives – “Lessons from Jamaica." 42 Fordham Int’l L.J. 1095 (2019)
- Insufficient Outcomes and “Intangible Considerations:” Reflections on the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education. 53 Gonz. L. Rev. 393 (2017/2018)