Today (Monday, June 7, 2021) is the registration deadline for our joint conference with the IJCLE and GAJE. Register here: Fees and Registration (northumbria.ac.uk)
Also, we have now finalized the agenda for ACCLE’s Canada-focused stream of the conference: ACCLE Stream Schedule (GAJE_IJCLE_ACCLE – June 2021).
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.
Dear ACCLE members,
The inaugural 2020 ACCLE Award recipients have been announced:
1) The Buhler Award: Named in honour of Sarah Buhler, long-time ACCLE Board member and Professor at the College of Law University of Saskatchewan. This award is presented to a professor whose work intersects academic and clinical approaches to clinical and experiential legal education.
The inaugural recipient of this award is Gemma Smyth– Associate Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. Ms. Smyth is receiving this award in recognition of her commitment to researching the practice of clinical legal education across the country, in addition to her long-time commitment to ACCLE.
2) The Cirillo Award: Named in honour of Lisa Cirillo, long-time ACCLE Board member and Director of Downtown Legal Services in Toronto. This award is presented to an individual clinician who has made a significant contribution to the life of their clinic.
The inaugural recipient of this award is Chantelle Johnson– Executive Director of the Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City (“CLASSIC”). Ms. Johnson is receiving this award in recognition of her tireless work both educating/mentoring law students and assisting the marginalized members of her community.
3) The Ferguson Award: Named in honour of Doug Ferguson, founder and long-time ACCLE Board member and former Director of the Community Legal Services at Western Law. This award is presented to member/ group involved in a clinical project or program that promotes access to justice and clinical law within a law school setting.
The inaugural recipient of this award is Kathy Ferriera– Director of the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic. Ms. Ferreira is receiving this award in recognition of her work shaping the Correctional Law Project into a large-scale expansive operation under which students assist prisoners with issues pertaining to correctional law, administrative law and human rights law.
ACCLE is proud to recognize these members for their significant contributions to Canadian clinical legal education. Big congratulations to all of this year’s winners! Please consider nominating your colleagues for these awards in 2021.
Dear ACCLE Members,
In light of the ongoing pandemic, ACCLE has postponed the Annual Conference to October 27-29, 2021. The location at the Holiday Inn – Yorkdale in Toronto will remain the same.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Dear ACCLE Members,
In light of concerns caused by the spread of COVID-19, and at the advisement of the ACCLE conference committee, we are postponing our annual conference, originally scheduled for June 2020. It is our intention at this time to hold the conference in the late Fall (likely late October), and we will confirm the new dates as soon as possible.
Thank you for your understanding.
The Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE) is delighted to confirm that we will be hosting our 11th Annual Conference at the Holiday Inn – Toronto Yorkdale, happening June 3-5, 2020.
The focus of our 2020 conference is “Perseverance, Resilience, and Resistance in Canadian Clinical Legal Education”. We are interested in exploring questions such as:
ACCLE invites proposals for papers or workshops that fit within the general theme of “perseverance, resilience, and resistance in Canadian clinical legal education”. We welcome participation and submissions from all legal educators, as well as professionals from other related fields. We are especially interested in proposals seeking to engage the audience in an interactive or dynamic way.
The deadline to submit is January 31, 2020.
See the official call for proposals here.
Dear ACCLE members,
We are pleased to announce that the ACCLE Repository will be launching December 2019. The repository will hold various resources for clinicians including training materials, academic papers, policy papers, and more. Members will also be able to contribute their own materials, as we hope to grow the repository into a wide-ranging, knowledge sharing platform for clinicians.
Registration is simple. You will head over to intranet.accle.ca, where you will be prompted for a login. We will be emailing out a universal login for all members to use in the next month through the listserv. The password for this login will change each year, and with your membership renewal, you will receive the updated passwords.
When the login is distributed, we will also include details about how to use the repository, such as searching for and submitting materials.
If you are interested in accessing the repository, please ensure that you are registered as an ACCLE Member for the 2019/2020 year and have paid your membership fee.
Gemma
Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference
Location: Western University, London, ON
Date: 1-3 June, 2020
We are pleased to release this Call for Proposals for the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, which is being held as part of the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and includes an overlap day with the conference of the Canadian Law and Society Association. The program for the overlap day will be co-ordinated to encourage integrated participation.
The Congress theme is “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism & Anti-Black Racism”, which has been explained as follows:
Congress 2020 will encourage multidisciplinary engagement under the broad concept of bridging divides, while specifically emphasizing the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the enslavement of Africans in the new world. Settler colonialism, as part of a broader imperial project, erases Indigenous peoples by appropriating land and delegitimizing traditional knowledge, and dehumanizes Black people, subjecting them to the tropes of everyday anti-Black racism. As we come together to confront white privilege and white supremacy, and examine experiences shared by Indigenous peoples and African Canadians, we also invite our community to reflect critically on social, ethnic, political and epistemological divisions more broadly, forming a future vision that bridges divides between divergent ways of knowing and navigating our world.
Please send all proposals, in Word format, as well as any suggestions or expressions of interest, to <calt.conference.acpd@gmail.com> no later than Monday 25 November.
See the official call for proposals here
Please save the date for ACCLE’s 2020 Conference to be held in Toronto, Ontario June 3-5, 2020. More information will be posted to the ACCLE website soon.
Read ACCLE’s letter to Hon. Caroline Mulroney opposing cuts to legal aid in Ontario here.
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