La profesora Gema Varona, doctora investigadora permanente del Instituto Vasco de Criminología de la UPV/EHU, ofrecerá la charla titulada Justicia restaurativa: Reparación de violaciones graves de derechos humanos. ¿Es posible reparar el daño? La conferencia se enmarca en el programa de charlas de Derechos Humanos del IISJ, organizado con ayuda del Departamento de Igualdad, Justicia y Políticas Sociales del Gobierno Vasco.

Prof. Johannes Feest (University of Bremen, Germany), Scientific Director of the IISL from 1995 to 1997, will give the next Institutional Memory Lecture organized by the IISL: A Penologist in the Basque Country: Reminiscences by Johannes Feest. It will be given on Zoom.

The RCSL has awarded this year's Podgorecki Prize to Jacek Kurczewski, Professor Emeritus of the University of Warsaw,  Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law 1997-98. This prize is for distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievements. This year's Podgorecki Prize Committee was composed by Sharyn Roach-Anleu (chair), Germano Schwartz and Stefan Machura.

The RCSL will publish a personal portrait in their next Newsletter, in the second semester of the year.