The next annual CALE/ACEJ Conference will be held October 24-26, 2024, hosted by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. It will take place in person.

Proposals are now invited for presentations on either teaching legal ethics or research and scholarship about legal ethics and professionalism. The latter includes research relating to the regulation of the profession.

We invite anyone interested in presenting on a topic to submit a proposal. We welcome proposals from junior scholars and from those working on legal ethics outside the academy. The eventual format of the presentations will depend on, among other things, the number of proposals we accept, but we expect that each presenter would have about 15-20 minutes plus time for questions. There is no need to have a formal paper accompanying your presentation: slides or oral remarks alone are fine. You need not have a finished product: works in progress are welcome.

One of the reasons for asking for proposals at this early stage is that we understand that for some applicants it can be easier to obtain funding to attend the CALE/ACEJ conference once you have been accepted as a speaker. We therefore aim to communicate acceptances as soon as we can so that you can leverage that acceptance to obtain funds.

Submit your proposal by e-mail to Rebecca Parker at RLParker@dal.ca. Indicate whether it is for the teaching sessions or the research and scholarship sessions. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2024. The proposals will be assessed by conference coordinator Richard Devlin, Gillian MacNeil and Amy Salyzyn.