Arti Mohan

Education

• BA LLB (Hons.) from NALSAR, Hyderabad
• M.Sc in Restorative Practices from the International Institute of Restorative Practices, USA.

Profile

Arti is a restorative justice practitioner, trainer and researcher. Since 2016, Arti has designed a restorative justice and practice pilot as part of the Counsel to Secure Justice’s  (CSJ’s) restorative justice project. Apart from facilitating processes, she has trained police, prosecutors, judges and other child protection stakeholders on restorative justice. Before joining CSJ, Arti worked as a lawyer for children who have been abused, and as a corporate lawyer at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas in the capital markets team. She has also been a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice’s Values and Standards Committee since 2019.

Arti has taught restorative justice in law schools in India and the US and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Vermont Law School, USA. She has taught at NALSAR and NLUD and has given guest lectures at Jindal Global Law School, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and the University of Arizona, USA. Her research includes being the Lead Editor of a project on Restorative Justice Around the Globe, published in Restoring Justice (2022).

Research Interests

Arti is passionate about using research to inform best practice implementation. Her research includes being the Lead Editor of a project on Restorative Justice Around the Globe, published in Restoring Justice (2022). She has recently worked on a forthcoming chapter mapping restorative justice in India for the International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice. In addition, she has written on restorative justice for international publications including the European Forum for Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices International.

Publications

• Mohan, A., & Welsh, E. (2018). Perspectives of justice: Restorative justice and child sexual abuse in India J. Derby (Ed.). Counsel to Secure Justice and National Law University Delhi.
• Mohan, A. (2020). Bonds of hope: Restorative processes in Rajasthan. Counsel to Secure Justice and UNICEF.
• Mohan, A. (2020).  India and the pandemic: A time to unlearn?  European Forum for Restorative Justice 21(2).
• Mohan, A. (2020). Child-friendly tools in Restorative Practices. European Forum for Restorative Justice, 21(3).
• Mohan, A. (2021). Children in child-care institutions: The adverse impact of marginalization and institutionalization on children’s mental health. The Mariwala Health Initiative Journal | Reframe, October, 2021(4), 40-43.
• Mohan, A. (2022). Restorative justice across the world. In Van Ness, D., Strong, K., Derby, J., & Parker, L. (2022). Restoring Justice An Introduction to Restorative Justice (6th ed.). Routledge.
• Mohan, A. (2023). Restorative justice from a children’s rights perspective [Review]. International Review of Public Administration, 28(1), 109-112.
• Mohan, A. (2023). Restorative justice and Indigenous peoples’ practices: Unveiling the origin stories. Restorative Practices International.
• Mohan, A. (Forthcoming). Rehabilitation for children in conflict with law in India: The role of restorative justice. In. The lost generation: Exploring juvenile delinquency in India.
• Mohan, A. (Forthcoming). Restorative justice story(ies) of India: The past, the present and the future. In The International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice. The Hague, Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
• Mohan, A. & Raha, S. (Forthcoming). Death penalty and victims. In Essays on death penalty. Cambridge University Press and Project 39A.