Colloque annuel 2024 Annual Conference
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS /
MERVEILLEUSES OBSESSIONS
Researching, Teaching and Learning Together /
Faire de la recherche, enseigner et apprendre ensemble
Wednesday May 29 - Friday May 31, 2024 /
Mercredi 29 mai — vendredi 31 mai 2024
Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
Faculté de droit, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick
Deadline for proposals: Tuesday December 19, 2023
Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : le mardi 19 décembre 2023
Appel de propositions (fr) .pdf
ACPD-CALT is delighted to invite members of the community of Law Teachers to our annual conference, May 29-31, 2024 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. UNB sits on a river known as Wolastoq along which live Wolastoqiyik – the people of the beautiful and bountiful river. Wolastoq is also called the St. John River. The Faculty and UNB stand on the unsurrendered and unceded traditional Wolastoqey land. The lands of Wabanaki people are recognized in a series of Peace and Friendship Treaties to establish an ongoing relationship of peace, friendship and mutual respect between equal nations.
At this Conference, we aim to develop and deepen our understanding of the relationships between our roles as researchers, teachers (including clinical legal educators), and practitioners. We want to ask critical questions - who is our community? What are the politics which shape the spaces we work in and the ideas we work with? We want to ask about relationships between law schools and law teachers and others.
At the same time, our theme, “Magnificent Obsessions” is intended to be playful. We hope to make space at this conference for joy: the joy of being together; the joy of developing ideas through research; and the joy of sharing these ideas with our students, with each other, and with the broader community.
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. Below you will find three slightly different elaborations on our theme. You will also see that we are inviting proposals for papers, panels, workshops and roundtable discussions. These different formats are explained below.
As usual, our conference will include plenary sessions, awards, keynote speakers, parallel sessions, a conference dinner, a social event or two exploring Fredericton, and ACPD-CALT’s annual general meeting.
Information about registration, fees, accommodation options and more specific timings will be available in early 2024. We encourage attendees to book flights and accommodation early.
The ACPD-CALT Conference Committee is grateful to our local organizers Professor Nicole O’Byrne (University of New Brunswick) and Professor Adrien Habermacher (Université de Moncton), who have welcomed us to the East Coast. Thanks are also due to Dean Michael Marin of the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, who has enthusiastically supported this conference, and the event staff at the Faculty who are being very helpful with planning and logistics.
Languages and Translation
We expect to have simultaneous translation for a small number of sessions.
All sessions can be held in either English or in French. Mixed language sessions are also welcome.
Virtual Stream
We hope that many of you will be able to join us in-person. However, we understand that conferences are not accessible to all. We are planning for a small number of remote (only) sessions to make the conference more accessible. We are also hoping to stream one or more plenary sessions. Remote access to in-person sessions will not generally be available at this Conference.
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
ACPD-CALT will host a graduate student roundtable at which graduate students will be invited to present their work and to share ideas and engage in discussion about teaching. More information will follow. Graduate students can be members of CALT and are invited to join proposals and 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 drink 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 2024.
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 have set out three formats and three subthemes below. 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 Magnificent Obsessions.
THREE SUBSTANTIVE SUBTHEMES
THEME I: The Political Economy of Research Teaching and Learning
We invite sessions which reflect on the role of the academic, contextualized in the political economy of the legal academy. This is intended as an invitation to deliberately and specifically look at the politics of our work and to perhaps connect it to the politics of our times. This stream holds work which situates the Canadian legal academy within larger frames of public policy. It includes explorations of the moralities, ethics, orientations and goals which either do, or should, guide researcher-teachers in their work within the legal academy.
We hope through this theme to engage in discussions that address the many ways in which the contemporary Canadian legal academy is quite different than it was even just a few years ago. How can we conceptualize the deep changes which mark our work as researchers and teachers but seem to have happened seamlessly without a moment of rupture? Explorations could consider this topic in terms of changes since the 1983 Arthurs Report (“Law and Learning”), the end of regulated tuition in particular provinces, the development of teaching clinics and the roles that they play in different institutions and communities, the shifting demographics of our students and our faculty colleagues, changing professional norms and forms, the development of the Federation of Canadian Law Societies National Requirement, or the impact of the global pandemic since 2020, among many other potential areas of exploration and interest.
THEME II: Research as Learning: Formalizing our Curiosity
We invite sessions which focus on the presenter’s research work in any “legal” field, including how research work produces and disseminates knowledge. Within this subtheme 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.
In addition to thinking about the results of research, we are interested in conceptualizing research as a form of learning. What are our methods for learning about our “magnificent obsessions”? How does this structure or affect our relationship with others connected to research? How does it confine or expand our understanding of what it is we are doing when we research? How do various kinds of research change our vision of the world? What motivates us to engage in research, including within legal clinics? What is the value of research?
We hope through this theme to attract groups who may be interested in focusing on a particular subject area across a panel, a roundtable or a workshop - or perhaps all three. In the more distant past ACPD-CALT was a major space for presenting all manner of legal research conducted by Canadian legal academics. The organization included many "sections" based on areas of research and each would have a series of panels at the yearly conference. As the academy and the academic space changed, we now have access to a wider range of spaces, whether very general or extremely specialized, in which to present our research. We are able to travel further (sometimes just by turning on a screen) to present to and listen to people working on similar questions. These are important and positive shifts. But we still believe that coming together across career stages and schools, but within a particular area of study, is a valuable activity that ignites further research and insight, and that ACPD-CALT has a role to play in fostering spaces in which these discussions can occur.
THEME III: Teaching as Learning/Learning to Teach
We invite sessions that engage with teaching, and that provide participants with opportunities to engage with research related to teaching. This stream encompasses all research into legal learning at any level and in all settings, including professional, graduate, public, undergraduate, and clinical legal education.
We hope through this theme to attract groups interested in a range of different teaching-related sessions. Topics might include the efficacy of certain teaching modalities and modes, including clinical teaching and teaching via land-based education. Other topics could consider experiments in teaching, empirical research into challenges or opportunities in teaching, evaluation, digital technologies and teaching/learning, the challenges and opportunities in learning from doing, and the significance and discourse about different modalities and modes of teaching.
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.
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 person, or online, 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 person or online, 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 four different descriptors of their work:
- The methodology used in the research (multiple answers allowed)
- The subject area of the research (multiple answers allowed)
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- 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).
- Whether the work best fits with theme I, II or III.
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
All Proposals, on all themes and in all formats, must be submitted at this link by December 19, 2023: https://forms.gle/XFTm3aPUhjfoY4VU6
All presenters must be members of ACPD-CALT by May 1 2024. 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 2024 Conference Committee
Graham Reynolds, Chair
Richard Devlin
Sonia Lawrence
Anna Lund
Sarah-jane Nussbaum
David Wiseman
Local Organizers:
Nicole O’Byrne (University of New Brunswick)
Adrien Habermacher (Université de Moncton)
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CALT @ Congress @ York May 28-30 2023
Abstracts and Bios long program
Tuesday AGM Materials /documents pour l'AGA de mardi (en/fr)
CLSA Monday Program (overlap day)
NOTICE: ACPD CALT SUMMER SESSIONS 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023 2:00 PM EST.
Experts Chat about ChatGPT:
Curriculum and Context
This roundtable of law, tech and teaching experts from Canadian Law Schools will try to put what's new about Chat GPT into context for law teachers. Should we teach about ChatGPT, and how? How might ChatGPT be integrated into legal work? And how can we design meaningful evaluations in a world where Chat GPT is a click away?
Prof Alexandra Mogoryos, Toronto Metropolitan University, Lincoln Alexander Faculty of Law
Audrey Fried Director, Faculty & Curriculum Development, Osgoode OPD
Prof. Katie Szilagyi, University of Manitoba Faculty of Law
Prof. Kirsten Thomasen, Allard Faculty of Law, UBC
Prof. Jon Penny, Osgoode Hall Law School
Prof Valerio de Stefano, Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School
Prof. Wolfgang Alschner, Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law, Ottawa Faculty of Law
Registration required, register here: https://bit.ly/ChatChatGPT
Monday Jun 26, 2023 11:00 AM EST
Wellness in Law Schools:
Talking about Techniques and Tensions
Presented in collaboration with the Association of Law Teachers (UK).
Institutions related to the legal profession in many jurisdictions have begun to recognize a serious and, it seems, increasing, level of mental unwellness amongst lawyers as well as law students. This panel will focus on the question of wellness in law schools. A set of Draft Guidelines for law schools prepared by Emma J. Jones, Sr. Lecturer and Director of Student Wellbeing at University of Sheffield School of Law UK, Professor Caroline Strevens, University of Portsmouth, UK; Professor Rachael Field, Bond University, Australia; and Dr Colin James, ANU, Australia), the UK Association of Law Teachers and the International Bar Association on developing International Guidelines for Mental Wellbeing in Legal Education will be shared with all participants. Panellists (TBA) will offer feedback on the guidelines. The Panel will reflect on some of the many complex tensions which arise in efforts to promote wellness in law schools. These tensions include whether wellness initiatives should be broadly or narrowly targeted, the extent to which wellness initiatives themselves can create more time pressure on students, and the problem of limited resources, particularly for evaluation studies. Specific initiatives that Panellists have been involved with will also form part of the discussion. Contributions and questions from all participants will be welcome time permitting. All registered participants will receive a copy of the Draft Guidelines and an annotated list of resources on wellness in law schools.
Registration required, register here: https://bit.ly/ALTCALTWellness
Call for Participants in a Reading Group & Roundtable at CALT 2023 Conference: The Comparative Value of Online and In-person Legal Education
This reading group and roundtable will give legal educators space to consider and compare the value of online versus in-person legal education, and imagine how to move forward to a "new normal" that can hopefully better reflect some of the lessons learned about different teaching modalities during the pandemic.
Participants will be invited to read three articles relevant to the topic prior to the roundtable. Each of these readings will be briefly summarized at the start of the session, and participants will then be guided through a series of discussion questions on the roundtable's theme.
Call for Participants in a Roundtable at CALT 2023 Conference: Teaching Critical Approaches to Criminal Law
Profs Sarah-jane Nussbaum (UNB) and Danardo Jones (Windsor) are convening a Roundtable for CALT at Congress 2023 (see link for dates and details of the Conference) about teaching critical perspectives in criminal law, and are reaching out for expressions of interest in joining.
The focus here is on teaching law school first years, and early career teachers are especially welcome.
- Roundtable participants are asked to bring something for the group conversation, for instance:
- More granular descriptions of teaching goals/learning outcomes in terms of "critical perspectives", or a definition of "critical perspectives" that you are using in designing your course
- A description of specific challenges (or perceived failures) in bringing critical perspectives to students, reflections on the reasons for the problem including perhaps how it relates to other courses, classroom dynamics, etc.
- A particular class or teaching unit which worked well including perhaps material, focus, activities, and evaluation methods to share with the group.
- Evidence of how an approach is received by students (good or bad)
Please reach out to Profs Nussbaum and Jones by December 20 if interested ([email protected], [email protected]) so that they can add your name to the proposal they plan to submit. Your email should include some indication of what you would like to bring to the Roundtable.
There is space available for a number of people to join - invite your colleagues to consider it. At the Conference, people not actually part of the Roundtable will of course be able to attend the session.
2023 Call for Proposals
Find the call in french / Appel en francais.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Annual Meeting 2023
Deadline for proposals December 23 2022.
Submit proposals using this form
The Canadian Association of Law Teachers first in-person meeting since the Summer of 2019 will be at York University in Toronto as part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 27 to June 3 2023).
CALT’s meetings will be on Monday May 29 and Tuesday May 30 2022.
The CALT Banquet and awards will be held concurrently with the Canadian Law and Society Association on the evening of Sunday May 28th, 2022, the night before our meetings begin.
On Monday May 29 CALT will host a Luncheon for Junior Professors - all of those appointed to their first full time tenure track position in or after the month of January 2020.
Congress 2023 is an important moment to come together and attempt to re/connect with our communities. We are particularly focused on the way our communities have both grown and changed since our last meeting, and of issues left on the table when we canceled our 2020 conference. The Congress theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings has particular resonance in that light and will be somewhat familiar to Canadian scholars and learners of law:
The third decade of the twenty-first century has brought us into unprecedented times. An unrelenting global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and escalating climate disasters have heightened our awareness of the urgent need for collective action to help us create a more equitable and sustainable world. The lessons from Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, have been joined by new lessons, new reckonings about what is needed to live in non-hierarchical relationships that can truly honour our human differences, while protecting the land, water and air we all need to live together.
In the theme, “Reckonings and Re-Imaginings,” we invite the Congress community to pause and reflect on the lessons we have learned, but also to begin the work of imagining and enacting the terms under which we might create a radically different world. What might it mean for us to commit to knowing and caring for each other across our differences, understanding that the world we want to live in tomorrow is dependent on the action we take together today? Can we re-imagine a new set of social relationships grounded in decoloniality, anti-racism, justice, and preservation of the earth? This invitation for both reflection and action requires a genuine investment in the project of learning and growing, a willingness to participate in active and meaningful co-engagement, and a commitment to exercising patience and care in doing the hard work of changing belief systems and the world.”
See more at the Congress main site here.
AN EXPANDED FOCUS
In putting together our program, we are proposing two particular areas of attention in addressing the themes above:
- We would like to pay particular attention to the work and needs of those members of the academy who have joined in the last 3 or 4 years (along with programming aimed at graduate students in law);
- We are looking to make more space for discussions of scholarly legal research inside or across areas of legal scholarship - beyond the scholarship of teaching and learning.
These plans complement our familiar focus on teaching and learning law in Canada.
PROPOSALS
We encourage the submission of complete or partial (with space for more participants) proposals for sessions of 1.5hrs or 1 hour. We are open to a variety of formats and themes, as set out below and we encourage you to reach out to colleagues at different institutions and career stages to generate possibilities.
Participants should assume that remote participation—for presenters and audiences—will not be supported at this conference. All participants should plan to attend the conference in person. If you have questions or concerns please be in touch at [email protected].
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Form (all sessions slots are 1.5 hours – you may request a 1 hour session) |
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Substantive Themes related to Reckonings & Reimaginings (feel free to identify more than one) |
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i. Workshops (participatory workshops led by one or more people) |
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a. Topics which relate to or engage with Indigenous and / or Black communities and law or legal education |
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ii. Roundtables (large number of speakers or expectation that all participate) |
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b. Post Pandemic Reckonings and Reimaginings |
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iii. Panels (3-4 speakers presenting research work, with or without drafts and commentators) |
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c. Teaching and Learning in Legal Education |
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v. Another format |
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By the time of the conference, all participants must be registered as members of CALT and registered for Congress. We would be delighted if you chose to become a member now: please visit https://www.acpd-calt.org/join_adhesion.
The requirement of membership does not include JD students or 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.
Submit proposals using this form.
https://forms.gle/MXiYF2XsPutQcRt97
Our Deadline is December 23 2022 but we will begin reviewing proposals on November 23 2022.
Questions should be directed to contact@acpd-calt.org
We also anticipate a role in arranging ‘CALT-sponsored” Open Sessions (available to all Congress attendees). These should closely relate to the theme-related sessions and so invite suggestions for sessions or speakers and expressions of interest in co-arranging specific sessions. Limited funding may be available to support non-academics in travel and attendance in relation to these open sessions where applicable. Creative proposals are welcome.
CALT may award a “Congress Graduate Student Merit Award” worth approximately $500 to one graduate student who is presenting their work at our meetings. Only students who are presenting work which can be described through an abstract of 250 words will be able to apply for this award. The award recipient will be notified by May 2023, and funds will be disbursed in June 2023. If you or someone participating in your proposed session is interested in this opportunity please indicate using the box available in the submission form.
CALT members participating at Congress may also be eligible to receive a “Child and Dependent Care Subsidy” (up to 200 per person) via the Federation of Social Sciences and the Humanities. An application is required, and decisions about this subsidy will be released on May 2 2023. Information about this opportunity will be distributed to all who are on the program in late March 2023.
CALT Conference Series 2022
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Online workshops and roundtables (and more)
to be held in June 2022
Deadline for Proposals April 22 2022
In lieu of a conference this summer, CALT proposes a series of Wednesday sessions in June, with a longer session including our AGM on June 8th.
CALT is now soliciting proposals from Canadian law teachers for online roundtables or workshops connected to legal education.
For events included in the series, CALT will provide publicity (through its website, mailing list, and other channels) and assume responsibility for the technical aspects of hosting the meeting (registration through Zoom, etc.).
CALT would be glad to consider partnering with other academic or professional organizations in order to co-host particular events in the series.
Proposals should address a unified theme, and be designed for a total duration of 60 to 120 minutes, including activities and/or discussion.
Sessions may be in one of two formats: workshops (with active learning and participatory approaches aimed at capacity building); or, roundtables (interactive discussion and exchange, either with a small group of panelists with some participation by the room, or intended to engage the whole room). Other formats may be proposed.
Proposals should be contained in a standalone Word document (i.e. not in the body of an email) that is no longer than 2 pages and must provide the following information:
- Session title;
- Session format (workshop, roundtable or other) and length
- Brief description of session topic, content and agenda (100-500 words)
- Identification at least 3 presenters, including a session chair.
**Please note while CALT has currently suspended membership fees, we will be reinstating modest membership fees before June 2022, in the <$50 range for full time faculty. All presenters will be expected to become CALT members and pay the membership fee)
- Brief biographical information for each contributor (including institutional affiliation and position title or program status);
- Identification of partner (co-hosting) organization, if any;
- Preferred dates, if any (June 1, 15, 22, 29 are the Wednesday dates we are looking at – along with the second Wednesday of the month in some of all of July through December.
Please send all proposals, in Word format, as well as any suggestions or expressions of interest, to <[email protected]> no later than April 22 2022.
The CALT Conference Committee will review all proposals and make selections based on timeliness, rigour, anticipated interest of CALT members, and potential for interactive exchange and learning impact.
If a proposal is selected, members of the CALT Conference Committee will contact the persons making the proposal to agree upon a date and time. The Committee may request additional information and modifications.
CALT 2021 Conference Registration
We are happy to announce that registration is now open for the CALT 2021 virtual conference (7-10 June) here. There is no registration fee, but registration is obligatory. Also, an updated Program in Brief, as well as the Full Program, are now available.
CALT Conference 2021 Program in Brief
CALT conference 2021: SAVE THE DATES!
We are delighted to confirm that the virtual conference will take place over four days, from Monday 7 June to Thursday 11 June. Two sessions will be offered on each day, as well as the CALT AGM on Tuesday 8 June. A ‘program-in-brief’ is now available on our website here.
Sessions will be conducted via Zoom, hosted by Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Registration will be required, but there will be no registration fee. An Eventbrite registration page is coming soon and will be the source for further program information. For any questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Please SAVE THE DATES and STAY TUNED.
Call for Proposals CALT Conference 2021
Call for Proposals
CALT annual conference 2021
7-11 June, 2021
Virtually Hosted by:
Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
We are pleased to release this Call for Proposals for the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT). The conference will be held in a virtual online format throughout the week of 7 to 11 June (which is the week following the virtual gathering of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities).
The virtual platform for the conference will be provided by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. We gratefully acknowledge their participation and support.
Subject to the level of response to the Call for Proposals, and logistical factors, our tentative plan is to schedule 6 plenary sessions over the course of the week, with no more than two sessions of up to two hours duration on any one day.
The general focus of the conference will remain on legal education and pedagogy. We primarily invite proposals on two specific themes:
- “Building Back Better: Lessons from Adapting to Teaching in the Pandemic”;
- “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism & Anti-Black Racism” – the theme of the cancelled 2020 conference.
We will also consider proposals that address non-theme topics and issues of current interest in legal education and law, but preference may be given to theme-related proposals and proposals that address teaching and learning.
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CALT 2021 Conference & AGM
We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Association of Law Teacher’s annual conference is resuming in 2021. The conference will be held in a virtual online format throughout the week of 7 to 11 June (which is the week following the virtual gathering of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities). A Call for Proposals will be issued soon. The CALT AGM will also be held during that week.
Subject to the level of response to the Call for Proposals, and logistical factors, our tentative plan is to schedule 6 plenary sessions over the course of the week, with no more than two sessions of up to two hours duration on any one day. The general focus of the conference will remain on legal education and pedagogy. We anticipate inviting general proposals with that focus, as well as inviting proposals engaging two specific themes: one theme focusing on lessons from adapting to teaching in the pandemic; the other reaching back to the theme of the cancelled 2020 conference, “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism & Anti-Black Racism.”