Category Archives: Conferences and Calls

Update from IAOLE: New Site, New Membership

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CALE members who have an interest in legal ethics and professionalism at the international or comparative level are recommended to check out the new website of the International Association of Legal Ethics, which is here.

As part of a technological transition, the IAOLE is asking its previous members and anyone else who wants to become a member to register as a member under the Membership tab of the website.

The IAOLE is the host organization of the International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC), held every two years, which was at UCLA in 2022 and will be at the University of Amsterdam on July 17-19, 2024. We previously posted about the call for papers in October 2023. The deadline to propose a paper is February 7, 2024.

Ethics Forum 2024

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Registration is now open for the 2024 Ethics Forum, which is presented as a partnership between the CBA, FLSC and CALE. It happens on Friday, March 22, 2024 at the CBA conference centre in Toronto. For more information, including a detailed agenda with topics and speakers, see this web page.

This year’s panel sessions are entitled “Competence and Diversity”, “Law and Generative AI” and “The Duty to Report – How Far Does This Ethical Obligation Extend?” There will also be a keynote presentation over lunch on “Neurotechnology and the Practice of Law: Legal Ethics Intersections”. 

The Ethics Forum has been a popular event in previous years and so early registration is encouraged.

Call for Papers: ILEC 2024

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The next International Legal Ethics Conference will be held July 17-19, 2024 at the University of Amsterdam (details available here).  This major legal ethics conference is held every two years.  Recent previous conferences include UCLA (2022), Melbourne (2018), Fordham (2016) and City University London (2014).

The organizers have issued a call for proposals (available here), which includes both papers and other kinds of presentation such as workshops.  Proposals are due by February 7, 2024.  The theme is “Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World”.

It would be great to see a strong Canadian contingent in the Netherlands next summer.

Conference Recap 2023

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The annual conference was held on October 19-21, 2023, at the University of Victoria. Pooja Parmar, the Vice-President of CALE/ACEJ, was the conference coordinator. She was assisted by Alan Treleaven, Robert Tapper, Laura Hamilton and Tayana Simpson. They did a terrific job and made all attendees very welcome.

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Register for the 2023 Annual Conference

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Thanks to conference coordinator Pooja Parmar and her team, details of the upcoming (October 19-21, 2023) CALE/ACEJ conference at the University of Victoria are now available and registration is open.

All the information you need is here.

The program, registration link, hotel information and a handy things-to-do document (prepared by Rob Lapper) are available. The conference features over 25 presenters covering a wide array of topics.

Your registration is not confirmed until you receive an e-mail from Laura Hamilton.

Due to room capacity issues, there is an upper limit on the number of people who can attend the conference. If you plan to attend, do not delay in registering.

New Conference Travel Grant Program

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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 announce that it is creating a new conference travel grant program. Thanks are due to all involved in the preparation of this casebook.

Starting in 2023, 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. 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, 2023. 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, 2023.

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.

2023 Conference: Call for Presentation Proposals

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As announced in March, the next annual CALE/ACEJ Conference will be held October 19-21, 2023, hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Like the 2022 conference, 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.

For teaching, please respond to Andrew Flavelle Martin (andrew.martin@dal.ca) by June 30, 2023.

For research, please respond to Deanne Sowter (deannesowter@osgoode.yorku.ca) by June 30, 2023.

Save the Date for 2023 Annual Conference

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Next fall CALE/ACEJ will hold its annual conference at the University of Victoria in beautiful British Columbia. The conference will start on the evening of Thursday, October 19 with an informal social get-together. The sessions will start on the morning of Friday, October 20 and will run to mid-day on Saturday, October 21. Our conference coordinator is Professor Pooja Parmar.

The organizers will be putting out a call for presentation proposals later in the spring. As usual we will have sessions on research, teaching and the regulation of the profession. It is not too early to start thinking about a possible topic to propose.

Registration and accommodation information will follow in the summer. For now, save the dates and start envisaging your trip to Vancouver Island.

CBA-FLSC Ethics Forum 2023

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The 2020 version of this annual conference was, for many, the last in-person professional event before the pandemic shutdown. It is wonderful to see it return in person. The 2023 conference happens in Toronto on Friday, March 31.

The panel sessions this year are titled “Lawyering in Times of Chaos and Controversy”, “Legal Ethics and Family Law: Do Unique Challenges Require New Approaches?” and “A Wake Up Call: What is the path forward for improving lawyer mental health?”. The keynote speaker is Katrina Ingram, founder of Ethically Aligned AI, who will discuss artificial intelligence and the practice of law. In addition, the CBA Ethics and Professional Responsibility Subcommittee will present Part II of its Business of Law toolkit which deals with marketing.

More information (including a list of all moderators and presenters and the opportunity to register) is available here.

Conference Recap 2022

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It was a great pleasure to return to an in-person conference this year. Our host was the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University and we are indebted to Dean Jula Hughes, Wendy Parkes and their team, including several faculty members, for running a terrific event. We met October 20-22, 2022.

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