Lady Justice, as Judge Laura is known in ACCESOlandia, continues to do wonderful work in the Drug Court in the Bronx Criminal Court where she leads a nationally-recognized problem-solving court. Her youngest son, Eric is readying for college, the second one in a few short years. For Judge Laura, he is “basically a liberated high school senior.” With all her work, she still has time for public service.
She is traveling with a legal delegation to Venezuela and then heads back to her favorite Latin American country – Chile to assist in the development of a national project to build a drug court system.
Problem-solving is an increasingly important mission around Latin America, whether it be diversion programs in the criminal justice system like drug courts, or the use of traditional horizontal, peacemaking mechanisms like cosmovision in Chile or usos y costumbres in Ecuador, Bolivia and elsewhere in the Andes. The mission of California Western School of Law, the U.S. home of Proyecto ACCESO, is to educate creative problem solvers.
Judge Laura Safer Espinoza received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College and her Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School.
Judge Safer Espinoza is a New York State Acting Supreme Court Justice and a Deputy Supervising Judge for the Bronx Criminal Court. She runs a nationally-recognized problem-solving court. Judge Safer Espinoza has consulted for the United States Information Service and the U.S. Department of State and has lectured extensively throughout Central and South America.