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])
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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.
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