2013 Conference Program

Opening Keynote Address: 

Rollie Thompson

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Session A:  PANEL: Innovative approaches to clinical teaching and experiential education (Moderator: Doug Ferguson)

• Marian McGregor (CLASP, Osgoode) “Searching for Disability in Experiential Education: Should we even be looking?”
• Martha Simmons (Osgoode), “Using the TPACK Model to Explain Teaching Clinical Legal Education”
• Nicholas Blenkinsop (CLASSIC, Saskatoon), “Clinic Lawyer as Experiential Educator”

Session B:  PANEL The clinic in the community (Moderator: Lisa Cirillo)

• Sarah Buhler and Janelle Anderson (Saskatchewan) “Community perspectives on clinical legal education”
• Benjamin Janzen (Ottawa), “Integrating Community Service Organizations into Community Legal Clinic Practice and Education”
• Ruby Dhand (TRU) “Creating a New Community Legal Clinic: A Critique of Clinical Legal Education Models in Canada”
• Michelle Christopher (Calgary)  “Facilitating Access to Justice in the Face of Disaster: Lessons from the Law Clinic”.

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Session A:  WORKSHOP: Flash Reflections and Sensory Sensitivity: Innovative Journaling  (Moderator: Sarah Buhler)

• Facilitated by Nancy Cook (U of Minnesota Law School)

Session B:  PANEL:  Learning from International Innovations in Clinical Legal Education (Moderator: Marian MacGregor)

• Helene Namisi (Namisi & Co, Nairobi) & Lynette Oseimo (U of Witwatersrand School of Law, South Africa), “Against All Odds: Making the Case for Clinical Legal Education in Kenya”
•  Maryam Arif (Open Society Justice Initiative, Pakistan) “Clinical Legal Education in Pakistan”
•  Niti Saxena and Ajay Panday (Jindal Global Law School, India” “Clinical Legal Education to Strengthen Democracy and the Rule of Law”/ “Law School-NGO Collaborations for Community-Based Clinical Legal Education in India”

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PANEL: Best Practices for Law-Social Work Collaborations in Student Legal Clinics (Moderator: Donna Franey)

• Lisa Cirillo, (Downtown Legal Services, U of Toronto),
• Marian McGregor (CLASP, Osgoode Hall)
• Cheryl Milne (David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, U of Toronto)

Session B:  PANEL: Innovative approaches to skills and competencies in Clinical Legal Education (Moderator: Sarah Buhler)

• Gemma Smyth and Marion Overholt (Windsor), “Initial Findings: Clinical Legal Education Competencies Project”
• Sarah Morse and Tamsin Nelson, “Standardized Client: the way Forward for Teaching Law Students Interviewing Skills?”

Session C:  STUDENT SESSION (Facilitated by Brea Lowenberger (U of S Law, President of Association of Canadian Clinical Legal Education Students)  

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Session A:  WORKSHOP: Taking the Work Upstream: Balancing Individual Client representation with systemic advocacy in clinics  -(Moderator: Vivian Hilder)  Amanda Dale and colleagues (Barbara Schlifer Clinic)   Shaun Fluker (University of Calgary)

Session B:  Session B: PANEL:  Student Legal Clinics and Pro Bono Students Canada: Friends Not Foes  (Moderator: Rose Faddoul)

• Douglas Ferguson (Western)
• Margaret Capes (Western)
• Maeve Byrne (Western PBSC Coordinator)
• Nikki Gershbain (PBSC)

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Session A: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Researching Clinical Law (Facilitated by Sarah Buhler and Lisa Cirillo)

Session B:  PANEL:  Fostering Professionalism and Reflective Practice in Clinics  (Moderator: Michelle Christopher)

• Jill Engle (Penn State Dickinson School of Law), “Teaching Self-Aware Professionalism Before, During, and After a Crisis in a Law Clinic”
• Nicholas Blenkinsop, (CLASSIC, Saskatoon) “Reflective/ Self-reflective Practice at the Clinical Level”

Session C:  WORKSHOP: Interviewing for Change: Teaching Upstream Thinking in Clinical Education – (Moderator: Marian MacGregor) Nancy Henderson and Cole Webber (Parkdale Community Legal Clinic/ Osgoode Hall Law School)

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Session A – WORKSHOP: Personal and Professional Identity Formation in Clinical Legal Education: Exploring Fernandes and Performative Pedagogies  – (Moderator: Lisa Cirillo) Facilitated by Gemma Smyth (Windsor)

Session B – PANEL:  Clinical Law Externships (Moderator: Doug Ferguson)

• Faisal Bhabha (Osgoode) & Naveen Hassan (Osgoode), “Examining Externships: A Case Study of Osgoode’s International Legal Partnerships”
• Mirja Trilsch (Université du áu Québec à Montréal) “Former des défenseurs des droits humains – la méthodologie de la Clinique international de défense des droits humains de l’UQAM”

Session C: WORKSHOP: Integrating Clinical Learning into Non-Clinical Courses: Challenges for Law? Lessons from Social Work? (Moderator: Michelle Christopher)

• Sarah Lugtig (University of Manitoba) and Kathy Jones (Legal Help Centre) 

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Session A:  WORKSHOP:  Making our Mission Possible  – (Moderator: Marian MacGregor) Facilitated by Donna Franey (Dalhousie)

Session B: PANEL: Social Justice, empathy and identity  (Moderator: Rose Faddoul)

• Sarah Rauch (UBC) “Teaching innovative justice based in identity and diversity”
• Margaret Capes (Western Law’s Community Legal Services), Kathryn Bullon and James Melnick (Community Law School, Sarnia-Lambton):  A Pedagogy for Compassion: Fostering Respect and Empathy for Marginalized Clients in Clinical Law Students

The CBA will be making recommendations for the future of legal education through its Futures Initiative. ACCLE has been asked to provide input for this topic that is critical to the future of clinical legal education.