Association of Canadian Clinical Legal Education – 5th Annual Conference – Program
Clinics, Classrooms and Community: Clinical Legal Education at a Crossroads
DAY ONE: Thursday, October 23, 2014
8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:25 am Welcome and Conference Opening
9:25 – 10:45 am Deep Critique and Democratic Lawyering in Clinical Practice – Keynote Address by Sameer Ashar,
Clinical Professor, School of Law, University of California, Irvine
10:45 – 11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Experiential Learning and Education in Ontario’s Community Legal Clinics: Current Opportunities and Future Possibilities
Session B: Reaping the Benefits of Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Integrating Social Work and Clinical Legal Education
Part One: Social Work Students and Humanitarian & Compassionate Grounds Applications: Towards a More Perfect Union
Part Two: Creating Space for Cross-Disciplinary Learning
Session C: Exploring New Practice Areas
Part One: Employment Law as Clinic Law
Part Two: Establishing Intellectual Property Law Clinics within the Entrepreneurship Eco-system: One Step Forward, Ten Steps Back
12:30 – 1:45 pm Lunch & ACCLE Annual General Meeting
1:45 – 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session A: First Voices in Clinical Legal Education
Session B: Reaching Out / Reaching In – Using insight from low-income clients in legal education
Part One: Bringing Poor Perspectives into Wealthy Law Schools
Part Two: Cross Country Checkup – Outreach Work Practices in Canadian Clinical Legal Education Programs
Session C – Teaching Methodologies
Part One: Legal Information and Legal Advice – Embracing the Spectrum
Part Two: Court-Annexed Dispute Resolution in Context: Exploring the Impact of Mediation Typology and Process Choice on Student Learning
3:15 – 3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Experiential Learning Programs
Session B: Promoting Self-Care in Clinic Students – Healthy Responses to Challenging Work
Session C: Student Session
5:30 – 8:30 pm Conference Reception (Pre-Registration Required)
DAY TWO: Friday, October 24, 2014
8:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 am Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Encouraging Reflective Practice: Methods, Motives and Misgivings
Session B: Specializing the SLASS
Session C: Criminal Defense Clinic in Afghanistan: A Successful Model of Cooperation Between University and Community
10:45 – 12:00 pm Plenary Panel Discussion: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Professor Sameer Ashar –
Third World and Fourth World Perspectives, and the Challenges of Neoliberalism
Panelists:
Sarah Buhler, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan College of Law
Amanda Dodge, Staff Lawyer, CLASSIC (Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City)
Gemma Smyth, Associate Professor and Academic Clinic Director, University of Windsor Faculty of Law
Sujith Xavier, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor Faculty of Law
12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session A: International Perspectives on CLE & Community
Part One: Clinical Legal Education as a Facilitator for Change
Part Two: Access to Justice Crisis in Ekiti State of Nigeria: Clinical Legal Education to the Rescue
Session B: Spotlight on Student Writing in Clinical Programs: a presentation of three papers
Clinical Legal Education to Critical Legal Education: In Movement Towards a Theory of Justice
Organizing and Activism as Advocacy Tools: Possibilities and Risks
Legal Clinics attached to Law Faculties: from a top-down to a collaborative model
Session C: Clinical Legal Education & Human Rights
Part One: Advocacy Beyond the Courtroom: fact-finding reports as a means of engaging students, clients and the community
Part Two: The Field, the Faculty & Beyond: Toward a ‘Best Practices’ Model for Clinical Legal Education
2:30 – 2:45 pm Refreshment Break
2:45 – 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Working Together? The Transnational Crossroads of Justice, Education, and Migration
Session B: Lakehead’s Integrated Practice Curriculum as a Pathway to Practice
4:15 – 4:45 pm Conference Wrap-up