2024 Conference Roundtable Invitations
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ACPD-CALT ROUNDTABLES The State of Scholarly Publishing in Canadian Law School Journals Tenille Brown (Lakehead)This is a call for Editor-in-Chiefs, Faculty Advisors, and Faculty involved in the running of law journals housed at Canadian law schools to participate in a roundtable on the state of scholarly publishing in Canadian law journals. This roundtable is an opportunity to discuss all aspects of academic publishing, including topics such as: journal work post-Covid, pedagogy through journals, reach and impact, the challenge of peer review, and to reflect generally on challenges and successes of journals housed at Canadian law schools. The roundtable will be preceded by a panel representing four Canadian journals. It is our hope that a roundtable discussion will be an opportunity for us to share our knowledge, experience, and goals on all things related to scholarly publishing in Canadian law school journals. If you would like to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please reach out to Tenille E. Brown, Editor-in-Chief of the Lakehead Law Journal. Email: [email protected] The Law Professor in a Troubled Democracy - Shaun Fluker (Calgary)We are in extraordinary socio-political times: the rise of populism in electoral politics, an executive branch willing to use its power to openly attack or dismantle institutions and challenge legal norms for political gain, a further entrenchment of neoliberalism, and more political participation in spaces where it is not welcome or protected. Law professors are increasingly viewed as a bulwark against this decay in democratic dialogue; as the search by civil society and others intensifies for public intellectuals who are able and willing to contribute to socio-political causes. Those who do this work will usually manage to categorize it as research, clinical teaching or community service, however it often seems like the unspoken component of our job description. For some, this work has resulted in being attacked by one version or another of a SLAPP: generally understood as punishment via legal process for political participation. None of this is new, but it seems like we are in a ‘new normal’ for engaging in law and public policy reform and related advocacy work outside of teaching assignments. This roundtable will provide an opportunity to share experiences with peers, and generate a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of this work. The discussion may include topics such as: how this contributes to our teaching and research, the socio-political context driving our engagement in these activities, the perils of finding yourself in the media and public spotlight, the personal and professional implications of this work, and why this work still does not factor comfortably into promotion and tenure (even when it is included as clinical teaching. If you would like to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please reach out to Shaun Fluker, University of Calgary Faculty of Law. Email: [email protected] Experiments in Teaching in a World of Generative AI - Audrey Fried (Osgoode OPD)This roundtable will provide a forum to discuss ways that different law teachers have adapted to the ready availability of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. We hope to include examples of courses that embrace the use of generative AI tools as well as courses that are designed to resist the use of such tools. If you would like to participate in the roundtable or have any questions, please get in touch with Audrey Fried at [email protected] “Legal Issues in Housing and Homelessness” Anna Lund (Alberta), Sarah Buhler (Saskatchewan), Estair Van Wagner (Osgoode)This roundtable will focus on legal Issues in housing and homelessness. We will have a structured conversation around our own research projects, currently underway in this area. Our conversation will be structured through a series of pre-agreed-upon questions. We hope that the roundtable will provide participants with a chance to get feedback on existing projects, but also to draw connections between discrete areas of legal research (e.g., residential tenancies law, encampment litigation, Indigenous rights). If you would like to participate in the roundtable or have any questions, please contact Anna Lund. Email: [email protected]. IP and tech law teaching and pedagogy - Graham Reynolds (Allard UBC)This roundtable provides participants with an opportunity to discuss a range of issues relating to teaching and pedagogy in the areas of intellectual property and technology law. Roundtable participants will share their experiences of courses taught in these areas, along with courses that they would like to teach should they have the opportunity to do so. As well, participants will discuss some of the challenges and successes that they have experienced as IP/tech law teachers, including those relating to generative AI. For this roundtable, we frame teaching broadly, which gives participants the opportunity to discuss certain types of research dissemination to broader public audiences, including through blogging, social media, and open access publications. If you would like to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please reach out to Graham Reynolds. Email: [email protected]. Co-Teaching in Law Schools - David Sandomierski (Western)This roundtable aims to share experiences of co-teaching in law schools – whether between academics and practitioners, or among academics. We hope to share experiences and perspectives on the possibilities, successes, missed opportunities, and relevance of this pedagogical strategy for legal education. If you would like to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please contact David Sandomierski. Email: [email protected]. Shifting Demographics of Faculty and Students in Canadian Law Schools - Eliza Xue (UNB)I am new to UNB and new to Canada. From the perspective of a new member to the law teachers' community and to this country, I have particular interest in exploring the impact and challenges brought by the shifting demographics of our students and faculty members. The society of Canada keeps changing over time, so as our campuses across the country, from a settler-oriented framework which laid down the legal foundation for this country, to an awakening tide of incorporating indigenous perspectives and knowledge into course syllabus, then to integrating incoming tides of immigrants, who bring along their own culture, values and religion, and who keep enlarging groups of both students and faculty on campuses and keep shifting demographics on the land. The uniqueness of the Canadian society calls for unique perspectives of law education and unique approaches of teaching law. I propose a roundtable discussion on how we can identify and grasp this uniqueness brought by the shifting demographics of our teaching-learning community from the following three perspectives: (1) What are the core values entrenched in the Canadian law by the English common law tradition and development over time by generations of Canadian judicial elites? These core values have defined what Canada is and shall be the key ingredients in law teaching. It is proposed that all newcomers, be they students or faculty members, shall embrace these core values in learning and teaching law. (2) The possible tension between indigenization and multiculturalism: how the indigenous traditional knowledge and customs would affect the traditional law teaching, and how to address the concept and idea of reconciliation in a class composing of a substantial number of immigrant students who might have little knowledge of this concern. On what basis and to what extent that indigenization and multiculturalism could be harmonized in the setting of teaching & learning law. (3) From a practical perspective, how could we manage our class effectively when handling students' requests which are inspired by their own culture and past experience in their country of origin, such as requesting extra marks on the basis that English is not their native language, and asking questions as to what particular words mean during an exam, etc, which might potentially trigger equity consideration. If you woud like to to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please contact Eliza Xue. Email: [email protected]. Teaching Race and Contract Law: Confronting, Countering and Reconstituting Legal Narratives - Constance MacIntosh, Melisa Marsman, Suzie Dunn (Schulich Dalhousie)Contract law is a core course in the first year curriculum of all Canadian law schools, helping to set norms and expectations about legal actors and how the law frames and evaluates lived experience. We wish to bring people together to talk about how race does or should play into our teaching. We are motivated to seek this conversation because race plays a role in contracts, from negotiation to remedies, however it is less common to see discussions about the ways that race is engaged in this area of law, compared to other core first year courses. We note that there is existing literature on the relationship between contract law and racial profiling and racism, and legislative tools to counter racism in contracting. There are cases and case studies that discuss historical and current examples of racial discrimination in contracts, whether that be quantifiable price difference in car sales among purchasers of different races, AI that sets different prices for people based on racial proxies, rules that prohibited people of colour people from entering contracts to purchase homes in certain neighbourhoods, or how the contractual benefits received by Black and Indigenous soldiers were different than those offered to white soldiers. We welcome insights and experiences about the challenges and benefits when we engage with race in a systemically racist society in the mundane and everyday world of contract law. We further want to consider the ways that contracts law could potentially be used as a tool to address racial inequality in contracts. We invite participants to consider such questions as “How do I decide what to teach about race and racialization? How can teaching future contracts lawyers about race make them better lawyers in practice? Do I feel like I have the right balance in my materials? How (or when) do we discuss judges’ decisions to either flag race in their reasons or leave it out? What feels wrong (or right) when I teach race and contracting? What do I want to do differently or better?” If you would like to contribute to the roundtable or have any questions, please reach out to Constance MacIntosh. Email: [email protected]. |
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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iv. Author meets Reader |
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d. Focus on scholarship about a particular issue. |
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v. Another format |
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e. Focus on scholarship in a particular subject area. |
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]
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