When three of ACCLE’s longest-serving Board members retired from the Board last year, ACCLE announced the creation of three awards in their honour – the Ferguson, Cirillo and Buhler Awards. We are accepting applications for nominees for all three awards. The successful nominees will be announced at the 2021 Worldwide Online Conference (“Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Justice Education in the Time of Crises”) jointly held with the Global Alliance for Justice Education and International Journal of Clinical Legal.
Ferguson Award : This award, named in honour of Doug Ferguson, founder and long-time ACCLE Board member and Director of Community Legal Services at Western Law, will be given to one or more members of a clinical project or program that promotes access to justice and clinical law within a law school setting. The award can be given to the leader of a team, or to a portion of or all its members. The award can be given to a “pop-up” clinic or a long-standing clinic. In order to quality as a “clinic”, the project must work to directly advance the interests of clients or client groups.
Applications for this award should include:
– Names of the nominee(s) and the clinic/ clinical project
– Description of project
– Summary of the project’s achievements
– 2 statements of support
Cirillo Award: This award, named in honour of Lisa Cirillo, long-time ACCLE Board member and Director of Downtown Legal Services, will go to an individual clinician who has made a significant contribution to the life of their legal clinic.
Applications for this award should include:
– Name of the nominee
– Description of the nominee’s work
– Examples of the nominee’s work (where applicable)
– 2 statements of support
Buhler Award: This award, named in honour of Sarah Buhler, long-time ACCLE Board member and Professor at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, will go to a professor, clinical professor, or other individual whose work intersects academic and clinical approaches to clinical and experiential legal education.
Applications for this award should include:
– Name of the nominee
– Description of the nominee’s work
– Examples of the nominee’s work
– 2 statements of support
Self-nominations are welcome. All submissions, including those that are incomplete, will be considered. All nomination packages should be submitted as a single pdf file, addressed to Chantelle Johnson chantelle_j@classiclaw.ca, before noon on May 7 2021.