The 2019 CALE annual conference will be hosted by the University of Windsor. It will follow its traditional schedule, starting on the evening of Thursday, October 24 and ending mid-day on Saturday, October 26, 2019. Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic is the Conference Co-ordinator. The CALE annual meeting of members will be held at the conference. Calls for papers will go out in the spring.
Category Archives: Conferences and Calls
CBA-FLSC Ethics Forum 2019
The Forum will be held from 9am to 4:30pm on March 1, 2019 at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto. The Forum is an annual discussion between lawyers, academics and regulators who are interested in legal ethics and professional services regulation. Registration information is available here.
This year the Forum will focus on four topics: modernizing legal regulation, current issues in judicial ethics, entrepreneurial ideas for improving access to justice, and obligations to unrepresented and self-represented parties.
Speakers include Chief Justice Robert Bauman, Dean Adam Dodek, Lisa Eisen, Irwin Fefergrad, Gillian Hadfield, Jacqueline Horvat, Lena Koke, Taryn McCormick, Jacqueline Mullenger, Andrew Pilliar, Darrel Pink, Stephen Pitel, Amy Salyzyn, Darcia Senft, Associate Chief Justice Deborah Smith, Justice Lorne Sossin and David Swayze. The Forum is co-chaired by LSO Treasurer Malcolm Mercer and CALE Vice-President Amy Salyzyn.
CBA Ethics Forum June 2, 2014
First Annual Ethics Forum
The First Annual CBA Ethics Forum will provide an opportunity for learning and dialogue among academics, law firm ethics counsel, regulators and regulatory defence counsel.
Topics will include:
- The End of Articling?
- Ethical Issues in Criminal Law
- Do Law Firms Still Work?
- What About Alternative Business Structures?
For the full program, visit the CBA website
International Legal Ethics Conference VI
The call for papers for the next International Legal Ethics Conference July 10 – 12, 2014, in London, England is HERE.
Legal Ethics Symposium Oct 25 & 26 – Updated info including agenda
CALE – OCTOBER 2013 SYMPOSIUM – DRAFT PROGRAM – JULY 2013
CALE – October 2013 Symposium – Registration and Accommodation Information
Colleagues,
Professor Richard Devlin, the President of CALE, and I are pleased to invite you to the Eighth Canadian Legal Ethics Symposium [now under the banner of the Canadian Association of Legal Ethics] and to the annual meeting of CALE, scheduled to be held at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, on October 25 and 26, 2013.
The Symposium promises to be an exciting and important one, with a full agenda. The draft Agenda for the Symposium is attached, as well as Registration and Accommodation Information. As you will observe, the Agenda will address 1) Legal Ethics Teaching, 2) Legal Ethics Research and Scholarship, and 3) Issues in Regulation. We are also planning a Professional Development workshop on Conflicts of Interest, to which members of the legal profession will be invited.
There is no registration fee to attend the Symposium and Annual Meeting of CALE, but attendees will be responsible for their own travel and accommodations requirements. Symposium meals will be provided by the host committee at no cost to attendees.
We very much look forward to your joining us at the Symposium.
Warm regards,
Brent Cotter Richard Devlin
Chair of CALE and President of CALE
Chair, Planning Committee
CALE 7th Annual Legal Ethics Teaching and Research Symposium – October, 2013
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL ETHICS
SEVENTH ANNUAL LEGAL ETHICS TEACHING AND RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
October 25-26, 2013
SAVE THE DATES!
Colleagues:
The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan will host the Seventh Annual Legal Ethics Teaching and Research Symposium on Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26. The tentative schedule for the Symposium follows. [Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at the College of Law on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan.] Continue reading
22nd Annual F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics
On Friday 15th March, the Schulich School of Law hosted the Twenty-Second annual F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture in
Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics.
This year, they ran a panel discussion entitled “Contextualizing Legal Ethics” in which members of the faculty discussed, in 12-minute pitches, legal ethics in their fields of substantive interest.
The presenters were:
Philip Girard: the historical context
Sarah Bradley: Corporate Law
Brent Cotter: Government Lawyer
Meinhard Doelle: Environmental Law
Geoff Loomer: Tax Law
Rollie Thompson: Family Law
The rapporteur for the session was the indefatigable Stephen Pitel!
To watch the Wickwire panel discussion on YouTube, click HERE.
Conference Season in Canada
Thanks to Noah Semple and Jasminka Kalajdzic for alerting the CALE listserv to the following conferences:
- March 19 (next Tuesday): Panel on Access to Justice and Early Childhood Education (Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Costs of Justice Project). Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Link: http://issuesofcostandaccess.eventbrite.com
- April 25-27: CBA Envisioning Equal Justice Summit. Vancouver. Links: Website. Program.
- May 30 – June 2: Law and Society Assoc. Annual Meeting. Boston. Links: Website; Program.
- June 4-5: Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference. University of Victoria. Links: Preliminary Program
- July 1-4: Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. University of British Columbia. Link: Website.
- July 2-3 Windsor Law is hosting a conference on Commercial Litigation Funding: Comparative, Ethical and Regulatory Perspectives. There are panels on access to justice, ethics and other themes. For further info: www.uwindsor.ca/law/fundingconference.
- Aug 5-7: International Conference of Legal Regulators Meeting. San Francisco. Link: website. I am told that this conference is open to researchers. If you contact them via their form they will put you on the mailing list.
First Annual General Meeting of CALE
Please take notice that the first AGM of CALE will take place on Friday, July 13, 2012 at 745am in the Vistas Dining Room at the Banff Centre.
Please see the attached agenda and below. All members in good standing are entitled to vote at this meeting. All members of the CALE listserv are considered members in good standing of CALE (if you would like to join the listserv, contact Adam Dodek at adam.dodek – at – uottawa.ca).
Please find attached CALE By-Law No 1. The incorporating directors of CALE are Brent Cotter (Chair), Richard Devlin, Adam Dodek, Jasminka Kalajdzic and Alice Woolley.
Adam Dodek
Corporate Secretary and Treasurer Continue reading
NIFTEP: Workshop on Teaching Ethics
APPLY BY FEBRUARY 21 FOR SPRING 2011 WORKSHOP ON TEACHING ETHICS
The Spring 2011 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) will take place on Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1, 2011 at the University of St. Thomas Gainey Conference Center, one hour south of Minneapolis, MN. Attendance at this highly participatory event is limited to invited speakers and to those selected to be Spring 2011 NIFTEP Fellows. (Prior NIFTEP Fellows are welcome to apply for this workshop.) Continue reading
Canadian Association for Legal Ethics / Association canadienne pour l’éthique juridique 