Faculty Profile: Marta Vides
Associate Professor of Law and Society
Director, College Honors Program
(2008 - present)
Year Joined RCNJ: 2004
Contact Information:
- Phone: (201) 684-7669
- E-mail: mvides@ramapo.edu
- Office: A-209
- Office Hours: By Appointment
Education:
- B.A., University of San Francisco
- J.D., Santa-Clara University
- M.Div., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
- Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union
Convening Group:
- Law and Society
Courses Offered:
- Introduction to Law & Justice
- Comparative Legal Systems
- Legal Rhetoric
- Introduction to Law & Society
- Issues in Criminal Law
- Contemporary Issues in Law & Society - Law and Religion
- Criminology
- Juvenile Justice
- Family Law
- Directed Reading and Thesis Supervision
Teaching Interest:
- Justice Theory, Dispute Resolution
Research Interest:
- Restorative Justice
- Compassion for the Oppressor
Recent Publications:
- "Social Work Values in Restorative Justice" Chapter 23 in Restorative Justice Today: Applications of Restorative Interventions, forthcoming Spring 2012, Sage Publications.
- Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants, (ed.) David Hollenbach, S.J., reviewed in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, forthcoming, Fall 2011, vol. 31.
- "The American Way: Los Abogados Latinoamericanos como Estudiantes de Maestría En los Estados Unidos de América," co-authored article, in Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), boletín num 130 enero-abril de 2011.
- Various encyclopedia entries "Exilio," "Huitzilopochtli," "Limpias," "Mayahuel," "Tlazolteotl," "Plan Espiritual de Aztlan," "Dia de Los Muertos," and "Hermeneutical Circle" in Hispanic American Religious Cultures, Santa Barbara, SSHS: ABC-CLIO. 2009.
- "Restorative Justice, Empowerment Theory and Transformative Spirituality: Searching for Authentic Strategies in China, Hong Kong, India and Korea." Chapter 14, in edited volume, Restorative Justice Across the East and West, Katherine van Wormer (ed.), Hong Kong: Casa Verde Press, December 2007. English and Cantonese.
- "Entertaining Angels Con Pasión," In Symposium: Strangers No Longer: Immigration Law and Policy in the Light of Religious Values, 83 Detroit Mercy Law Review 901, Summer 2006.
Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:
- Visiting Researcher, Centro de Estudios sobre la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del Derecho, Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, México. Fall 2012.
- Especialista, Eseñanza en Educación Jurídica, Programa "Preparando a las escuelas de derecho en México para el nuevo sistema de justicia penal" Centro de Estudios sobre la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del Derecho, Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, México. Sponsored by USAID, 2011.
- Director, College Honors Program [ http://www.ramapo.edu/honors/ ]
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SSHS Office
Location
Office: G-138
Phone: (201) 684-7625/7624
Fax: (201) 684-7257
Dean
Samuel J. Rosenberg, PhD.
E-mail: sjrosenb@ramapo.edu
Hours
Fall / Spring:
Mon. - Fri., 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Summer:
Mon. - Thurs., 8:00 - 5:15 p.m.


