Organizers of the following sessions at the ACPD-CALT 2026 conference in London have indicated that they would welcome additional participants. Please reach out directly to the session organizer should you be interested in participating as a panelist/roundtable member.

AI and legal education: This panel will discuss how professors and students are making use of AI in their teaching and learning, challenges arising, and possible responses. Session convenor: Robert Diab ([email protected])

Designing the Contemporary Law Classroom: How the New Generation of Law Teachers Builds Courses, Teaching Methods, and Assessment: Legal education has evolved from lecture-based teaching to the Socratic method and is now shifting toward active-learning models. In Canadian law schools, instructors increasingly structure courses around simulations, extended factual scenarios, role assignments, collaborative work, and decision-making exercises that require students to apply doctrine rather than passively absorb it. This roundtable examines how the new generations of law teachers implement this shift in practice, focusing on course structure, classroom interaction, and assessment across first-year, upper-year, and graduate-level settings. Session convenor: Dr. Mahan Ashouri ([email protected])

Law and Technology Research Roundtable: This session will bring together scholars with an interest in law and technology to discuss a range of issues related to law and technology research. Individual roundtable participants will have the opportunity to raise topics for discussion. We anticipate that topics will include experiences locating venues to communicate research, the thought process that goes on in deciding what shape a project might take, how to translate research to public/outside academy audiences, recent work, and recent experiences conducting research, among other issues raised by roundtable participants. Session convenor: Graham Reynolds ([email protected])

Law and Technology Teaching Roundtable: This session will bring together scholars with an interest in law and technology to discuss a range of issues related to law and technology teaching. Topics will include models for in-class activities/engagement and assessments, syllabi sharing, and the development of collaboratively created open-source course materials, among other issues raised by roundtable participants. Session convenor: Graham Reynolds ([email protected])

Property Law Teachers Roundtable: This session provides an opportunity for property law teachers and those interested in the teaching of property law and related subjects to share new ideas and novel approaches to property law teaching. The roundtable will also provide an opportunity to discuss what are the necessary or core elements in a required course that is also thought to be a foundational part of the law school curriculum from which many other courses can build. Session convenor: Douglas Harris ([email protected]) 

and finally 

Possible Roundable on Ahluwalia:  A colleague has raised the idea of holding a roundtable at the ACPD-CALT 2026 Conference on the pending Supreme Court of Canada decision in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia (SCC No. 41061). They note that this case has attracted media interest and will be particularly relevant to tort lawyers, family lawyers and feminist legal scholars. If there are attendees who would like to participate in a roundtable on this topic, please email Graham Reynolds ([email protected]) by April 15, 2026, and I will put you in touch with each other so that you can make arrangements for a 1½ hour session.

Lessons From the Road | Leçons tirées de la route

The Canadian Association of Law Teachers/Association Canadienne des Professors de Droit is hoping to introduce a new feature at this year's Annual Conference: an address from a recently or nearly retired law teacher. The person invited to give the "Lessons from the Road" address will have an opportunity to reflect on their career including lessons learned along the way. It will also give us a chance to celebrate our colleagues as they transition into retirement.

If you have a recently or soon-to-be retired colleague who you would like to nominate to offer reflections on their career and lessons from the road, please send us a short (3-5 sentence) description of who you want to nominate and why you want to hear their reflections on this career. Nominations can be submitted using this GoogleForm

L'Association canadienne des professeurs de droit (Canadian Association of Law Teachers) souhaite introduire une nouvelle initiative lors de son congrès annuel de cette année : une allocution prononcée par un professeur de droit récemment retraité ou sur le point de l'être. La personne invitée à prononcer cette allocution intitulée « Leçons de parcours » aura l'occasion de revenir sur sa carrière et de partager les enseignements qu'elle en a tirés. Ce sera également l'occasion de rendre hommage à nos collègues qui s'apprêtent à prendre leur retraite.

Si vous connaissez un collègue récemment retraité ou sur le point de prendre sa retraite que vous aimeriez proposer pour prononcer ce discours "Leçons de parcours", veuillez nous envoyer une brève description (3 à 5 phrases) de la personne que vous souhaitez proposer et expliquer pourquoi vous souhaitez entendre ses réflexions sur sa carrière. Les nominations peuvent être soumises à l'aide de ce Formulaire Google

Buy your Conference and Conference Dinner  tickets here for Creativity, Collaboration and Care at University of Western Ontario (London, ON) 9am June 3 to 4pm June 5. 

All rates require ACPD-CALT Membership.

The early bird rate is $275 for faculty members and those with continuing appointments. The early bird rate expires on April 30, 2026. As of May 1, 2026, the fee for faculty members and those with continuing appointments will be $300.

For graduate students, the fee is set at $80 (with no increase in fee after the early bird deadline).

Conference Dinner tickets must be purchased separately, at the early bird rate of $95 for faculty members and those with continuing appointments, and $40 for graduate students. The dinner will take place during the evening of Thursday, June 4 at the Ivey Spencer Centre (https://www.iveyspencerleadershipcentre.com/). As of May 1, 2026, the fee for banquet tickets for faculty members and those with will increase to $110.

Achetez ici vos billets pour la conférence et le dîner du conférence Créativité, collaboration et bien-être qui se tiendra à l'Université de Western Ontario (London, ON) du 3 juin à 9 h au 5 juin à 16 h.

Tous les tarifs sont réservés aux membres de l'ACPD-CALT. Le tarif préférentiel est de 275 $ pour les enseignants et les personnes bénéficiant d'un contrat à durée indéterminée. Ce tarif préférentiel expire le 30 avril 2026. À compter du 1er mai 2026, les frais d'inscription pour les enseignants et les personnes bénéficiant d'un contrat à durée indéterminée s'élèveront à 300 $.

Pour les étudiants de cycle superieur, les frais sont fixés à 80 $ (sans augmentation après la date limite de l'inscription anticipée).

Les billets pour le dîner de la conférence doivent être achetés séparément, au tarif préférentiel de 95 $ pour les membres du corps enseignant et les personnes bénéficiant d'un contrat à durée indéterminée, et de 40 $ pour les étudiants de cycle superieur. Le diner aura lieu dans la soirée du jeudi 4 juin à l'Ivey Spencer Centre (https://www.iveyspencerleadershipcentre.com/). À compter du 1er mai 2026, le prix des billets pour le banquet pour les membres du corps enseignant et les personnes bénéficiant d'un contrat à durée indéterminée passera à 110 $.

From/De Bernard Duhaime Professeur, Département des sciences juridiques Faculté de science politique et de droit Université du Québec à Montréal

Call for contributions launched by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (emerging technologies in transitional justice processes)

Appel à contributions lancé par le Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur la promotion de la vérité, de la justice, de la réparation et des garanties de non-répétition.

June 3-5 Juin 2026 University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law

Créativité, collaboration et bienveillance

Creativity, Collaboration, and Care 

ACPD-CALT is delighted to invite members of the community of law teachers to our annual conference, June 3-5, 2026, hosted by Western Law on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.

The ACPD-CALT Conference Committee is grateful to our local organizer Professor David Sandomierski, who has welcomed us to London. Thanks are also due to Dean Mohamed F. Khimji of Western Law, who has enthusiastically supported this conference, and both Rania Giannakopoulos, Administrative Assistant, and Emilia Greco, Events & Conference Coordinator, who have been very helpful with planning and logistics. 

The Call for Papers is here.

La version française suit.

Travel to London, Ontario

If booking flights consider asking your travel agent about flying to these airports: 

• London Ontario YXU (nonstop flights from Calgary, Toronto, and sometimes Vancouver)
• Hamilton Ontario YHM (much less busy than Toronto YYZ, and closer to London Ontario - with direct flights available from a variety of Canadian destinations)
• Toronto YTZ (Island Airport/Billy Bishop) (close to Toronto Union Station, and VIA rail trains to London Ontario (approx 2 hrs) 

London is served by VIA Rail and early booking may enable first class for the price of economy. 

Hotel Accommodation

Block booking:  The Park Hotel (here). Deadline for reservations as part of the block booking is May 2, 2026

• Rooms being held for nights of June 2-5, 2026 (80 rooms for June 2-4, and 20 rooms for June 5) Rates = $189 for nights of June 2-4, and $209 for June 5
• Link for ebooking: https://be.synxis.com/?arrive=2026-06-02&chain=10237&depart=2026-06-06&group=2606UWOLAW&hotel=1472 
• Mix of King or Queen/Queen Suite 
• Modern 1-Bedroom Suite featuring: Living room with double sofabed and mini kitchenette with microwave, mini-fridge and Keurig coffeemaker, bedroom with 1 king or 2 beds separated by barn doors, bathroom with separate vanity area and tub or glass shower

Other hotel options in London

• Delta Hotels London Armouries [family friendly - pool] (here)
• Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre [family friendly – pool and water slide for kids 48” or taller] (here)
• Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre (here)
• Residence Inn by Mariott London Ontario [suites] (here)
• Hotel Metro (here) [in London’s Entertainment District]

Voyagez à London ON

Si vous réservez des vols, demander à votre agent de voyages de vous proposer des vols vers les aéroports suivants :

• London Ontario YXU (vols directs depuis Calgary, Toronto et parfois Vancouver)
• Hamilton Ontario YHM (beaucoup moins fréquenté que Toronto YYZ et plus proche de London Ontario, avec des vols directs disponibles depuis diverses destinations canadiennes)
• Toronto YTZ (Island Airport/Billy Bishop) (proche de la gare Union de Toronto et des trains VIA Rail à destination de London, Ontario (environ 2 heures)

London est accessible par VIA Rail et une réservation anticipée peut vous permettre de voyager en première classe au prix de la classe économique.

Hébergement

Réservation: The Park Hotel (ici). La date limite pour les réservations dans le cadre de la réservation groupée est le 2 mai 2026

Chambres réservées pour les nuits du 2 au 5 juin 2026 (80 chambres pour les nuits du 2 au 4 juin et 20 chambres pour la nuit du 5 juin) Tarifs = 189 $ pour les nuits du 2 au 4 juin et 209 $ pour la nuit du 5 juin.  Réserve en ligne

Des autres options à London

• Delta Hotels London Armouries [adapté aux familles - piscine] (ici)
• Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre [adapté aux familles - piscine] (ici)
• Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre (ici)
• Residence Inn by Mariott London Ontario [suites] (ici)
• Hotel Metro (ici) 

2025 Annual Conference 

CRAFT, CALLING, AND COMMUNITY

JUNE 9-11, 2025

University of Saskatchewan College of Law

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

 ᓴᐢᑲᑐᐅᐣ ᓴᐢᑲᐟᒉᐊᐧᐣ

ACPD-CALT is delighted to invite members of the community of Law Teachers to our annual conference, June 9-11, 2025, hosted by the University of Saskatchewan College of Law on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. 

At this conference, we aim to create spaces for discussion of the nature of our roles as researchers, teachers (including clinical legal educators), and practitioners. We also aim to discuss questions aabout community – who are the communities of which we are members, how do we engage with them, and how are they connected? We also intend to create opportunities to discuss the relationships between law schools, law teachers, and others including the broader university community, lawyers, and the public. 

In keeping with our theme, ACPD-CALT is making space at this event for discussions about learning, teaching, research, and the connections amongst them. We invite participants to submit proposals on any of the above areas across a range of themes, ideas, or subject areas. In particular, we wish to encourage participants to submit proposals for sessions that draw connections amongst learning, research, and teaching.  

As usual, our conference will include plenary sessions, awards, keynote speakers, parallel sessions, a social event or two exploring Saskatoon, and ACPD-CALT’s annual general meeting. 

The Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société’s annual meeting will take place at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law between 11-13 June 2025. The programs for both conferences will overlap on June 11 and will be coordinated to encourage full participation and exchange by attendees at both conferences

Information about registration, fees, accommodation options and more specific timings will be available in early 2025. We encourage attendees to book flights and accommodation early. 

The ACPD-CALT Conference Committee is grateful to our local organizer Professor Heather Heavin, Associate Dean Academic, who has welcomed us to Saskatoon. Thanks are also due to Dean Martin Phillipson of the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, who has enthusiastically supported this conference, and Katie Richard, Events Coordinator, who has been very helpful with planning and logistics. 

In-person event

This is an in-person event. Remote access to in-person sessions will not generally be available at this conference. Having said this, conferences are only one way through which we connect as ACPD-CALT members. In addition to our annual conference, ACPD-CALT has a track record of planning successful online events (see, for instance, the online event organized by Professor Anna Lund in September 2024 on “Getting a Job in a Canadian Law School”). We plan to host one or more additional online events during the 2024-2025 academic year. Please reach out if you would like to discuss any ideas related to online events. 

While ACPD-CALT will not provide childcare during the conference, children (including infants) are welcome to accompany presenters and participants, and to share in the conference food and beverages at no cost. As well, we will ensure that at least some of the suggested and planned activities will be suitable for families and children. We will also ensure that our list of recommended accommodation options includes accommodation that is suitable for participants traveling with children. Limited funding will be available to assist with costs related to child care, including to assist with the cost of caregivers accompanying participants with children. Further details will be available in early 2025. 

ACPD-CALT 2025 Conference Committee

Graham Reynolds, Chair

Richard Devlin 

Arvind Kumar

Sonia Lawrence 

Anna Lund

Sarah-jane Nussbaum 

Sara Ross

David Wiseman

Local Organizer: 

Heather Heavin (College of Law, University of Saskatchewan)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AVAILABLE HERE

2025 Annual Conference 

CRAFT, CALLING, AND COMMUNITY

JUNE 9-11, 2025

University of Saskatchewan College of Law

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

 ᓴᐢᑲᑐᐅᐣ ᓴᐢᑲᐟᒉᐊᐧᐣ

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ACPD-CALT is delighted to invite members of the community of Law Teachers to our annual conference, June 9-11, 2025, hosted by the University of Saskatchewan College of Law on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. 

At this conference, we aim to create spaces for discussion of the nature of our roles as researchers, teachers (including clinical legal educators), and practitioners. We also aim to discuss questions aabout community – who are the communities of which we are members, how do we engage with them, and how are they connected? We also intend to create opportunities to discuss the relationships between law schools, law teachers, and others including the broader university community, lawyers, and the public. 

In keeping with our theme, ACPD-CALT is making space at this event for discussions about learning, teaching, research, and the connections amongst them. We invite participants to submit proposals on any of the above areas across a range of themes, ideas, or subject areas. In particular, we wish to encourage participants to submit proposals for sessions that draw connections amongst learning, research, and teaching.  

As usual, our conference will include plenary sessions, awards, keynote speakers, parallel sessions, a social event or two exploring Saskatoon, and ACPD-CALT’s annual general meeting. 

The Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société’s annual meeting will take place at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law between 11-13 June 2025. The programs for both conferences will overlap on June 11 and will be coordinated to encourage full participation and exchange by attendees at both conferences

Information about registration, fees, accommodation options and more specific timings will be available in early 2025. We encourage attendees to book flights and accommodation early. 

The ACPD-CALT Conference Committee is grateful to our local organizer Professor Heather Heavin, Associate Dean Academic, who has welcomed us to Saskatoon. Thanks are also due to Dean Martin Phillipson of the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, who has enthusiastically supported this conference, and Katie Richard, Events Coordinator, who has been very helpful with planning and logistics. 

In-person event

This is an in-person event. Remote access to in-person sessions will not generally be available at this conference. Having said this, conferences are only one way through which we connect as ACPD-CALT members. In addition to our annual conference, ACPD-CALT has a track record of planning successful online events (see, for instance, the online event organized by Professor Anna Lund in September 2024 on “Getting a Job in a Canadian Law School”). We plan to host one or more additional online events during the 2024-2025 academic year. Please reach out if you would like to discuss any ideas related to online events. 

Have an idea, but worried it isn’t quite ready? Talk to us!

Reach out!  The ACPD-CALT Executive would be happy to talk to you about panel, roundtable, and workshop ideas that aren’t quite finished.  We will work with you to develop the idea and identify possible participants.  Or, we can publish open invitations to join roundtables in our newsletter. We’d be delighted to work through your thoughts with you. Email us at [email protected]. 

Graduate Students

This conference will feature a graduate student roundtable at which graduate students will be invited to engage in discussion about research and teaching. Participants will share ideas on, including but not limited to, research informed/based teaching, how research work contributes to the production and dissemination of knowledge and, how research is a form of learning. More information will follow. Graduate students can be members of CALT and are invited to both join proposals and to develop their own. 

Childcare

While ACPT-CALT will not provide childcare during the conference, children (including infants) are welcome to accompany presenters and participants, and to share in the conference food and beverages at no cost. As well, we will ensure that at least some of the suggested and planned activities will be suitable for families and children. We will also ensure that our list of recommended accommodation options includes accommodation that is suitable for participants traveling with children. Limited funding will be available to assist with costs related to child care, including to assist with the cost of caregivers accompanying participants with children. Further details will be available in early 2025. 

Proposals: Themes & Formats

We are interested in proposals for complete (all participants are already confirmed) or partial (with space for more participants) sessions of 1.5hrs. We encourage you to reach out to colleagues at different institutions and career stages to generate possibilities and build a community of practice which can come together at this year’s conference.

We invite proposals for sessions that focus on a range of themes and topics including the role of the academic within the legal academy; teaching-related topics including sessions that provide participants with opportunities to engage with research related to legal learning at any level and in all settings, including professional, graduate, public, undergraduate, and clinical legal education; and sessions that focus on the presenter’s research work in any “legal” field. We also welcome proposals that engage with research conducted in community in connection with clinics, research on social change connected to clinics, and research in or about clinics. 

Three possible formats are set out below. 

FORMATS: Workshops, Roundtables, Panels 

Workshops: 1-4 people present a session intended to allow participants to engage in interactive ways. The proposal should provide a clear indication of what the participants will do during and learn from the session. Workshops can be in English or French. 

Roundtables: Normally no more than 10 people provide brief reflections on a set topic which may include a set text or series of texts to ground the reflections. These may be research or teaching focused.  They might be “Author-Meets-Reader” sessions. In arranging these sessions we encourage our colleagues to ensure that some space is available for newer (pre-tenure) entrants to law teaching. Roundtables can be in English or in French. 

Panels: 3 or 4 related papers are presented sequentially. We encourage the submission of complete panel proposals from researchers working on similar themes or topics. We will, however, accept single paper proposals and attempt to find the right space for them in our program. Panels can be in English or in French.

Participants who are not proposing fully constituted panels but submitting a single proposal which would fit on a panel will be asked on the Proposal Form to indicate three different descriptors of their work:

• The methodology used in the research (multiple answers allowed) 

• The subject area of the research (multiple answers allowed) 

• The type of law school class or clinic in which this research could contribute to teaching (you may indicate more than one substantive area or course). 

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

All Proposals, on all themes and in all formats, must be submitted at this link by January 15, 2025: https://forms.gle/mE5jfGAJanM6UXcz5

All presenters must be members of ACPD-CALT by May 1, 2025.  You can become a member here. The requirement of membership does not include people who are neither law teachers nor graduate students, for instance, community members who may be participating in your proposal. Please contact us directly in that case at [email protected] or indicate that people in this position are a part of your proposal.

ACPD-CALT 2025 Conference Committee

Graham Reynolds, Chair

Richard Devlin 

Arvind Kumar

Sonia Lawrence 

Anna Lund

Sarah-jane Nussbaum 

Sara Ross

David Wiseman

Local Organizer: 

Heather Heavin (College of Law, University of Saskatchewan)