Instead of Data Protection, could we speak about 'Honouring Information'? Instead of Controllers and Processors, could we speak about 'Information Guardians'? Instead of Data Subjects, could we speak about 'Information Sharers' (or why not just use the word People)? Could we imagine building data protection type laws, or any law…

Who knows what our legal systems will look like in fifty and more years. Up until recently, because we have been oriented from the outside-in, we have mostly needed powerful and highly structured institutions and rules to guide and instruct us on what was right and wrong. …

How can we stay in contact with aspirational qualities like justice, fairness, truth, wisdom, peace when we are working with the law? Embody them? Prioritise them? It feels like many sincere lawyers already do this naturally but not in a deliberate and explicit enough way. Our laws originate from a…

Animal symbology can have great power. Even in our modern world, we use symbols and animals to represent our businesses and lives — though the deeper meaning of these symbols may remain unconscious. We commonly hear the term “legal eagles” but what does this mean, and where did it come…

In July 2019, this interview piece was published in The Conscious Lawyer magazine with coordination by Legal Counsel, and Environmental Restorative Justice expert, Femke Wijdekop. The content is accurate as at 2019 and has not been updated. The interviewees for the piece were: Marjorie Silver (Professor of Law at Touro…

Interview by Femke Widjekop from May 2013 Reading Time: Long Interview: 14 minutes In May 2013, Dutch integrative lawyer FEMKE WIJDEKOP had the opportunity of interviewing internationally acclaimed lecturer, activist and author Marianne Williamson following the publication of her book: ‘The Law of Divine Compensation’. Williamson is running for the…

Interview by Elaine Quinn originally published in The Conscious Lawyer magazine in September 2018 Reading time: 10 minutes In his recently published book ‘The Desire for Mutual Recognition — Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self’, Peter Gabel describes how our experience of being truly recognised by a…

Interview by Elaine Quinn originally published in The Conscious Lawyer magazine in November 2017 Reading time: 6 minutes I was struck by several statements by Michael Bradley when I watched a PRESENTATION HE GAVE AT A CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM EVENT in Sydney. Purpose: “For most law firms when you dig down…

Interview by Elaine Quinn in November 2017 Reading time: 6 minutes MUMTA ITO is a lawyer and Founder of the NGO Nature’s Rights. She sees law as a vehicle for social transformation in a paradigm of restoration, reparation and healing. One of Europe’s leading advocates for nature’s rights, she is…