Call for Papers – “The Geographies of Legal Education”

The Geographies of Legal Education: Policy, Practice and Theory
May 25-27, 2009 Carleton University Ottawa
The 2009 annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) will be held May 25-27, 2009 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. The annual meeting will be held in conjunction with Congress 2009 of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), and will follow the Canadian Law and Society Association’s meeting of May 23-25. This year’s CFHSS Congress theme is “Capital Connections: Nation, Terroir, Territoire.”
Building on Congress’s aim to consider the ways in which globalization has impacted the relationship between place and who we are and CALT’s innovative conference in 2008 on the cultures of legal education, CALT’s annual meeting will be centred on the theme, “The Geographies of Legal Education.” This theme will enable participants at CALT’s annual meeting to engage with the key sub-themes raised by Congress of local environments and common experiences while addressing the sea-changes in legal education of early 21st century Canada.
Participants are invited to contribute to this year’s annual meeting through presentations, panels and workshops that interact with the broad themes of communities, critical learning, intersectionality and space:
· what are the critical learning spaces of Canadian legal education?
· how are those spaces affected by globalization and internationalization?
· how is the community of legal education in Canada imagined?
· how are regulatory structures and changes having an impact on legal learning?
· what are the current initiatives in critical pedagogy at Canadian law schools?

The Deadline to Submit Proposals is January 16, 2009. Proposals may be in either French or English, but please supply both a French and an English title for your paper or presentation. You may send a brief summary of your proposal (not to exceed 250 words) by e-mail or post. If sending by e-mail please note “CALT proposal” in the subject line of your e-mail:
Gillian Calder, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
Box 2400, STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3H7
gcalder[at sign]uvic.ca