CALT Annual Conference 2021
Event Information
About this event
Registration via Evenbrite is now closed.
If you still wish to register for this event, please email the conference assistant at law.research@dal.ca.
The 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) will be held online via Zoom throughout the week of 7 to 10 June.
The virtual platform for the conference is provided by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. We gratefully acknowledge their participation and support.
Registration Instructions
Participants must register for individual sessions through Eventbrite. After you click the “Select a Date” button above, you can choose the dates/times of the sessions you wish to attend.
Zoom links to your registered sessions will be emailed to you the week before the event.
You can attend the event as a:
- Current member (member as at CALT conference June 2019, rolled-over for 2020-21 and 2021-22)
- New member (eligible for membership, but not a current member)
- Guest (not eligible for membership)
No membership fees are due at this time. It will be proposed at the AGM, to be held during the conference, that membership fees will be waived for 2020-21, due to the ongoing pandemic circumstances.
SCHEDULE (all times EDT)
DAY 1: Monday, June 7
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Experiments in Ungrading
Learning Without Grades: An Empirical Study of Legal Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic – David Sandomierski (Western) & John Bliss (Denver)
Experiments in Ungrading (Roundtable) – Nayha Acharya (Dalhousie), Adrien Habermacher (Moncton), Anna Lund (Alberta), Nickie Nikolaou (Calgary), Lisa Silver (Calgary), Deanne Sowter (PhD student, Osgoode), Katie Sykes (Thompson Rivers University) & David Wiseman (Ottawa)
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Teaching Beyond the Pandemic
A Teaching Experiment in the Pandemic: Online Settlement Exercise at the CRT – Katie Sykes (Thompson Rivers University) & Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University)
Best Practices for Flipped Online Law Classes – Michael Hadskis (Dalhousie)
Effects of Pandemic Teaching on the Future Pedagogical Plans of Law Teachers – Audrey Fried (PhD candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
DAY 2: Tuesday, June 8
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The 1L Contracts Collaborative Teaching Resources Project: Who, What, How, Experiences and Where to Next?
Stephanie Ben-Ishai (Osgoode), David Sandomierski (Western) & others
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
CALT Annual General Meeting
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Cause Lawyering, Lawyer-Academics and Clinical Legal Education
Canadian Cause Lawyering: Examining the Implications/Role of Broader Connections for Legal Education – Basil Alexander (University of New Brunswick)
Law Society Regulation and the Lawyer-Academic – Andrew Flavelle Martin (Dalhousie)
Transnational Community-Based Lawyering in the Global Economy & JCAP’s National Virtual Clinic Model – Charis Kamphuis (Thompson Rivers University)
DAY 3: Wednesday, June 9
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Advancing Decolonization, Reconciliation & Indigenization
Leaving Room for Indigenous Law in Law School Classes – Patricia Barkaskas (University of British Columbia) & Alexandra Flynn (University of British Columbia)
Settler Harm Reduction: Integrating Prejudice Reduction and Indigenous Cultural Competency in Canadian Legal Education – Scott Franks (Ryerson)
Decolonizing Property Law: A Perspective from Teaching Transsystemically – Tina Piper (McGill)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Physically Confronting Colonialism: A Blockade Simulation for the Classroom
Shin Imai (Osgoode), Laura Sharp (Nahwegahbow Corbiere), Caroline Jacobson (MAG, Ontario) & Bruce McIvor (First Peoples Law)
DAY 4: Thursday, June 10
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Learning What it Means to Teach with Care: Reflections from Early-Career Professors
The Joy and Burden of Teaching with Care – Nayha Acharya (Dalhousie)
How I Learned to Stop Talking and Love Listening – Sarah Berger Richardson (Ottawa)
Setting a New, New Precedent – Angela Lee (Ryerson)
Discussant: Colin Jackson (Dalhousie)
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Public Health Law and a Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Learning in the Law School
David Sandomierski (Western), Jacob Shelley (Western), Erika Chamberlain (Western), Andrew Johnson (Western), Stephanie Gellatly (Western) & Ivy Duong (Western)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives at Faculties and Universities: Some Reflections
Sara Ghebremusse (University of British Columbia), David Rosenberg (Lakehead), Jennifer Koshan (Calgary), Michael Lynk (Western), Sarah Marsden (Thompson Rivers University), Roxanne Mykitiuk (York), Tina Piper (McGill) & Angela Campbell (McGill)
