The next annual CALE/ACEJ Conference will be held October 23-25, 2025, hosted by the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. 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. The deadline for submissions is June 27, 2025. To submit a teaching proposal, e-mail both Amy Salyzyn (amy.salyzyn@uottawa.ca) and Gillian MacNeil (gillian.macneil@umanitoba.ca). To submit a research proposal, e-mail both Andrew Martin (andrew.martin@dal.ca) and Brandon Trask (brandon.trask@umanitoba.ca).