On October 26, 2024, CALE/ACEJ held its annual meeting of members at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. In his report, President Stephen Pitel outlined CALE/ACEJ’s activities over the past year, including: continuing its Travel Grant Program to support graduate students and post-doctoral fellows attending the conference; partnering with the CBA and FLSC for the 2024 Ethics Forum; submissions to the FLSC’s Model Code Committee about proposed changes to address Call to Action 27 of the TRC Report; and submissions to the LSO about the scope of licensee reporting and disclosure of pending charges and findings of guilt.
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Conference Recap 2024
The annual conference was held on October 24-26, 2024 at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Richard Devlin, founding President of CALE/ACEJ, was the conference coordinator. He was assisted by Rebecca Parker. They did a terrific job and made all attendees very welcome.
The conference was generously supported by the law school, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia, Cox & Palmer and McInnes Cooper.
Continue readingNotice of 2024 Annual General Meeting
CALE/ACEJ’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 8:30am (Atlantic time) at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. All members of CALE/ACEJ are welcome to attend. The meeting is in-person only. Here is the agenda, also available under the “Meetings” tab on this website.
Annual Conference: Register Now
Thanks to conference coordinator Richard Devlin and his team, details of the upcoming (October 24-26, 2024) CALE/ACEJ conference at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University are now available and registration is open.
All the information you need is below this post: the registration form, the schedule, and details of the sessions.
To register, you must e-mail the completed registration form to the organizers, as indicated on the form.
We very much look forward to seeing you in Halifax, Nova Scotia this fall.
Travel Grants for Annual Conference
As a result of funds generated from production and sales of Woolley, Devlin & Cotter, Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Regulation, 4th ed (2021), CALE/ACEJ is able to continue its conference travel grant program (created in 2023). Thanks are due to all involved in the preparation of this casebook.
Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the field of legal ethics and professionalism are eligible to apply for a travel grant towards the cost of attending the annual CALE/ACEJ conference (October 24-26, 2024 at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University). To qualify they must either be (i) enrolled or based at a Canadian university or (ii) a Canadian enrolled or based at a foreign university.
Applications are due to the Vice-President by July 15, 2024. Applicants must provide sufficient information to establish their eligibility and explain their financial need for the travel grant. Applications will be assessed by the Vice-President and the Treasurer by July 30, 2024.
No more than $2000 is to be awarded in this year. No applicant is to receive more than $500 in a single year. The travel grant will be paid after the annual conference. To receive their grant, each recipient must submit receipts for travel or accommodation expenses to the Treasurer totaling at least the amount awarded.
2024 Conference: Call for Presentation Proposals
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.
CALE/ACEJ Awards: Call for Nominations
Nominations are open for CALE/ACEJ’s two annual awards, with a due date of August 9, 2024.
The two awards are:
- the CALE/ACEJ Best Paper Award, which recognizes the best legal ethics and professionalism paper by an emerging scholar, and
- the CALE/ACEJ Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes sustained accomplishments in legal ethics and professionalism.
Information about the awards, including previous winners and the terms of the awards, is at https://ethicsincanada.com/cale-awards/.
For Best Paper nominations, submit an anonymized version of the paper to basil.s.alexander@gmail.com (can be your or someone else’s paper) by August 9, 2024. While we cannot ensure full blind review given the nature and size of the community, we will do the best we can.
For Lifetime Achievement nominations, complete and submit the nomination form (available on request from Corporate Secretary Basil Alexander) and the required supporting letter(s) to basil.s.alexander@gmail.com by August 9, 2024. The form and the supporting letter(s) may be submitted separately.
The awards will be presented at the annual conference (October 24-26, 2024) at Dalhousie University.
If you have any questions, contact Basil Alexander.
The selection committee for this year’s awards is Amy Salyzyn (chair), Brooke MacKenzie and Pooja Parmar.
Early Reminder of 2024 Conference
As winter turns to spring, we ramp up the planning for the annual conference. At this point we want to get the dates and location out to potential attendees so they can start thinking about their travel plans.
The conference will take place October 24-26, 2024. It will be in Halifax, Nova Scotia, hosted by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Professor Richard Devlin is the conference organizer.
The conference will start on the evening of Thursday, October 24 with an informal social get-together. The sessions will start on the morning of Friday, October 25 and will run to mid-day on Saturday, October 26.
The planning group will issue a call for presentation proposals later in the spring. As usual we will have sessions on research, teaching and the regulation of the profession. Please start thinking about a possible topic to propose.
Registration and accommodation information will follow in the summer. For now, save the dates and start contemplating your trip to Canada’s Ocean Playground.
Annual Meeting 2023
On October 21, 2023, CALE/ACEJ held its annual meeting of members at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. In his report, President Stephen Pitel outlined CALE/ACEJ’s activities over the past year, including: the transition of the Chief Information Officer role from Amy Salyzyn to Basil Alexander; transitioning the listserv from UOttawa to Google Groups; implementing a Travel Grant Program to support graduate students and post-doctoral fellows attending the conference; partnering with the CBA and FLSC for the 2023 Ethics Forum; submissions to the FLSC’s National Requirement Review Committee re: ethics and professionalism and to the FLSC’s Model Code Committee re: former judges returning to practice; and other director submissions and activities that build awareness of CALE/ACEJ.
Continue readingBrent Cotter receives CALE/ACEJ Lifetime Achievement Award
On October 20, 2023, during the annual conference at the University of Victoria, CALE/ACEJ presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Senator Brent Cotter. The award is for having demonstrated “sustained accomplishments in the field of legal ethics and professionalism”.
Brent is one of the best-known and best-regarded scholars of legal ethics in Canada. Throughout his career as a law professor, Brent has taught and published in the area of legal ethics. Indeed, he is one of very few professors who specialized in legal ethics prior to 2000. He played a fundamental role in increasing the profile of the field in Canadian law schools and legal education and in assisting newer colleagues in developing their own expertise in the field.
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Canadian Association for Legal Ethics / Association canadienne pour l’éthique juridique 