{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 8, Episode 1: Dr. David Milward, author, academic and lawyer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2513,"description":"Road to Your Name | Dr. David Milward — Indigenous Over-Incarceration, Restorative Justice, and the Long Road to Reform\nThis episode was recorded in October 2025.  Dr. Milward joins the podcast by telephone.\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nIn this episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. David Milward, associate professor of law at the University of Victoria and a member of the Beardy's & Okemasis First Nation of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. Dr. Milward assisted the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in authoring its final report on Indigenous justice issues, and is the author of several books on Indigenous justice, including Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice: A Search for Ways Forward and the newly released Indigenous Law and Canadian Criminal Justice, co-authored with Jonathan Rudin.\nThis conversation goes deep into the realities behind Canada's Indigenous over-incarceration crisis: what restorative justice actually looks like in practice, why it remains chronically underfunded, and how political rhetoric around \"soft on crime\" policy obscures both the data and the human stories behind it. Dr. Milward speaks candidly about his own path into this work, growing up in Indigenous urban communities in Edmonton and Calgary, the friends he lost along the way, and the racism he faced as a law student — including being told outright that he'd never become a lawyer unless he cut his hair.\nThis is a frank, deeply informed conversation about what genuine justice reform requires, and why the people doing this work keep showing up despite the frustration.\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\n- The behind-the-scenes process of contributing to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report on Indigenous justice, including the commission's early restructuring under Murray Sinclair and Willie Littlechild\n- Working under law professor Ken Roach to develop the justice volume's research, and how the unused material eventually became the foundation for Dr. Milward's own books\n- Growing up in Indigenous urban...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}