John Law Receives CALE/ACEJ Lifetime Achievement Award

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On October 25, 2024, during its annual conference at the Dalhousie University, CALE/ACEJ presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Emeritus Professor John Law. The award is for having demonstrated “sustained accomplishments in the field of legal ethics and professionalism”.

John was a professor at the University of Alberta for many years and was appointed as the Thomas Lawlor Professor of Legal Ethics in 2013. In the 1980s and 1990s he played a leading role in the creation of the Alberta Code of Professional Conduct, which was highly influential across Canada due to the guidance it provided.

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Annual Meeting 2024

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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

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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.

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Response to LSO Consultation about Licensee Reporting and Disclosure Requirements

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The Professional Regulation Committee of the Law Society of Ontario has requested feedback on its Consultation Report – Considering Increased Transparency (available here). CALE/ACEJ has responded to this request; see the letter below.

Submission to LSO re Public DisclosureDownload

Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting

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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.

Feedback on Consultation about Model Code Changes: Response to Call to Action 27

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CALE/ACEJ has submitted its feedback to the FLSC’s Standing Committee on the Model Code of Professional Conduct in response to its ongoing consultation (available here) about proposed amendments in response to Call to Action 27 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The feedback is in the letter below.

Submission to FLSC re MC changesDownload

Annual Conference: Register Now

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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.

Halifax Registration Form 2024Download
CALE Program – Halifax 2024Download

Travel Grants for Annual Conference

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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 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

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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

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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.