CALE/ACEJ Conference 2020

REGISTRATION

This year's conference will be held over Zoom. Pre-registration is required in order to receive the event link.

Please note that registration is restricted to current members of CALE/ACEJ. Registration will not be capped initially; however, we reserve the right to impose a limit on registration if numbers so require.

Registration will be open until October 15th.

AGENDA

NOTE: All times are Atlantic Standard Time (AST).

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee & social chat / Introductory remarks

Welcome from Amy Salyzyn (Ottawa) as President and Richard Devlin (Dalhousie) as Host/Chair

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Research Panel 1 (Chair: Basil Alexander, UNB)

• Samuel Singer (Ottawa) - Ethics of Trans Competent Lawyering and Judging
• Andrew Martin (Dalhousie) - Academic Freedom and the Lawyer-Professor: The Role and Impact of Law Society Regulation in Research and Teaching
• Brooke MacKenzie (Toronto) - How Should Technology that Provides Legal Services to the Public be Regulated?
• Mahnam A. Malamiry (Osgoode) - Autonomy vs Independence in General Counsel Practice
• Amy Salyzyn & Jena McGill (Ottawa) - Judging by Numbers: How Will Judicial Analytics Impact the Justice System and Its Stakeholders?
• Trevor Farrow (Osgoode) - Book Discussion – The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM: Break

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM : Regulation Panel (Chair: David Swayze - Chair, Standing Committee on the Model Code of Conduct) - Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for legal professional regulation in Canada

• Cori Ghitter (Deputy Executive Director and Director, Professionalism and Policy, Law Society of Alberta)
• Priya Bhatia (Executive Director, Professional Development and Competence, Law Society of Ontario)
• Sara Siebert (Federation Council member, Law Society of Nunavut)

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM: Lunch

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Presentation of CALE Awards (Amy Salyzyn, Ottawa)

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Research Panel 2 (Chair: Stephen Pitel, Western)

• John Kleefeld (UNB) - Lawyers' Undertakings – Overview/Update
• Andrew Bernstein (Torys) - Reconsidering the Principles of Civility and Professionalism for Advocates with a Focus on Technology and EDI
• Craig Brannagan (Downtown Toronto Crown Attorney's Office) - Legal-Ethical Responsibilities of Crown Counsel and Their Heightened Role in the Criminal Prosecution of Unrepresented Accused
• Robyn Schleihauf (Legal Writer) - Conduct Unbecoming and Social Media Use: Whether and to What Extent Should Law Societies be Policing Speech?
• Deanne Sowter (Osgoode) - The Future Harm Exception: Coercive Control as Serious Psychological Harm and the Challenge for Lawyers’ Ethics
• Basil Alexander (UNB) - An Important Molehill: The Implications of Kapoor v Law Society of Saskatchewan for Putting Non-Binding Material Before Courts

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Break

4:45 PM - 6:15 PM: Teaching Panel (Marie-Claude Rigaud, UdeM)

• Adrien Habermarcher (Moncton) - Searching for the Missing Link Between In-Person Legal Education and Professional Competency
• Paul Maharg (Osgoode) - Regulatory and Ethical Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis on Legal Education
• Leslie Walden (Department of Justice) - Adapting Legal Ethics Courses for Remote Learning
• Randal Graham (Western) - Teaching Legal Ethics Online
• Emanuel Tucsa (Osgoode) - Model Papers and Practice Evaluations in Ethics Courses
• Francis Chapman (Lakehead) - Dialogue Pedagogy and COVID-19: Are We Sacrificing Conversation with Online Classes?"

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM: Drinks & social chat