Craft, Calling and Community: ACPD-CALT Conference June 9-11 2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2025
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.
Languages and interpretation
All sessions can be held in either English or in French. Mixed language sessions are also welcome. Depending on the degree of interest or need, we will explore options with respect to simultaneous interpretation for one or more sessions at this conference.
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)
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].
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 |
ii. Roundtables (large number of speakers or expectation that all participate) |
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b. Post Pandemic Reckonings and Reimaginings |
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 |
iv. Author meets Reader |
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d. Focus on scholarship about a particular issue. |
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.
Call for Papers/Conference Family Law Reform: Revue de Droit de Université de Sherbrooke
Call for Papers
Family Law Reform
(special issue scheduled for publication, Summer 2023)
Sherbrooke, November 1, 2021
Following the presentation of Bill 2 – Loi portant sur la réforme du droit de la famille en matière de filiation et modifiant le Code civil en matière de droits de la personnalité et d’état civil, October 21, 2021, by the Minister of Justice Simon JolinBarrette, the Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke will host a one-day conference on this Family Law Reform proposal in the Spring of 2022.
This conference, organized under the direction of Professors Andréanne Malacket (Université de Sherbrooke) and Johanne Clouet (Université de Montréal), will be presided by the Honorable Nicholas Kasirer (Honorary President). It will bring together leading experts who will examine different facets of this substantial reform in private law, notably by addressing its impact on the following subjects:
- Filiation by blood;
- Filiation by assisted procreation, including surrogacy;
- Adoption;
- Gender identity;
- Tutorship and parental authority; • The right to know one’s origins.
The preliminary program as well as the date of the conference will be announced within the next few weeks.
In addition to this conference, the proceedings of which shall be published, the Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke has decided to issue a general call for papers.
Read moreCBA Legal Futures Initiative Call for Submissions Due July 31, 2015
The CBA Legal Futures Initiative welcomes interventions from scholars, practitioners, law students, and advocates that address:
- New legal disciplines – what training and education will 21stcentury lawyers need?
- New legal environments – how can we train lawyers to work effectively in collaborative and multidisciplinary teams?
- New licencing processes – how can we encourage experimentation in the methods used to prepare new entrants for their call to the bar?
- Lifelong education – how can professional development meet the needs of lawyers throughout their careers while also ensuring increased competence in the profession?
- A more representative profession – how can we ensure that law schools and the profession reflect the diversity of Canadian society to a greater extent, and that law school graduates are able to pursue varied career objectives including social justice?
- Bridging theory and practice – how can legal employers and legal educators engage in productive dialogue about matching law school graduates to legal market needs?
- The relevant lawyer – how does the profession become more relevant to clients?
- Transforming the profession – how can educators encourage innovation amongst lawyers?
Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education Call for Papers – Deadline April 30, 2015
The Association of Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE) is pleased to host its 6th Annual Conference at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan from October 23-24, 2015. This year’s conference will focus on “The Place of Clinical Legal Education.” Submissions should be sent by email to Gemma Smyth at [email protected] with the subject line “ACCLE Conference 2015 Proposal” by April 30, 2015.
The call for papers is available here in English and in French.
CALT Awards for Academic Excellence and Best Scholarly Paper – Submission Deadline February 23, 2015
CALT is pleased to announce that it is accepting nominations for its annual awards. The deadline for nominations is February 23, 2015.