ACCLE/CALT Joint Conference,
University of Victoria, 8-10 June, 2017
Faculty of Law, Murray & Anne Fraser Building
The full conference program can be found on https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/27487615/acclecaltfullprogramjune6min.pdf
WiFi Access: connect to ACCLE-CALT network. No password needed.
Day One – Thursday 8 June
8:00 –
8:30
8:30 –
9:15
9:1510:45
10:4511:00
11:00
–
12:30
Registration & Breakfast – Fraser 159
Welcome & Conference Opening – Fraser 159
Welcomes: Jeremy Webber, Dean of UVic, Butch Dick, Elder of the Community and Education Liaison of Songhees Nation,
Lisa Cirillo (ACCLE) and Craig Forcese (CALT)
Keynote Plenary - Fraser 159
Foundations for Practice: The Whole Lawyer and the Character Quotient
Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS)
Health Break – Fraser 159
CS#1A – Panel
Fraser 158
CS#1B – Panel
Fraser 152
CS#1C— Panel
Fraser 159
Sarah Buhler, “Competencies for Access to
Justice: Perspective from a Community Research
Study”
Michelle Christopher, Kelsey Forbes & Stephanie
Mulligan, “Medical-Legal Partnerships, Law
Students and Community Engagement”
Raji Mangat, “Connecting, Collaborating and
Creating Change: a Role for Clinicians in Systemic
Advocacy”
Sarah Marsden, “Understanding Legal
Competencies”
Janet H. Goode & Lauren H. Mutrie,
“Collaborative Rounding in Medical-Legal
Partnership: a Holistic, Interdisciplinary Teaching
Model”
Siobhan Cullen & Bronagh Heverin, “Street Law –
Paving the Way for Community Access to the
Law”
Britney De Costa, “Expanding the Whole Lawyer
for Greater Access to Justice”
Moderator: Cornelia Mazgarean
Moderator: Michelle Christopher
Moderator: Lisa Cirillo
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12:30
– 1:30
1:30 –
3:00
Lunch – Fraser Lounge
ACCLE AGM - Fraser 152
CS#2A – Panel
Fraser 157
Lise Rivet, “Demystifying Competency-Based
Training and Assessment : Designing Programs,
Tools and Assessments to Produce the Whole
Lawyer “
Annie Rochette, Jennifer Flynn, Andrea Johnson
“Educating the Whole Lawyer in Bar Admission
and CPD Programs”
3:00 –
3:15
3:15 –
4:45
6:30 –
11 :00
CS#2C– Panel
Fraser 152
Jason MacLean & Frances E. Chapman, “The Lost
Law School: Toward a Truly Transformative
Reform on Legal Education”
Colleen Sym, Guilia Reinhardt, Alison Symington,
Tracy Wachmann, “ Whole Client, Whole Lawyer:
Community-based experiential learning and
holistic services”
Benjamin Ries & Jacob Shelley, “The Hidden
Character Curriculum of Canadian Law Schools”
Moderator: Donna Franey
Moderator: Doug Ferguson
Moderator: Annie Rochette
Health Break – Fraser Lounge
CS#3A – Roundtable
CS#3B – Roundtable
CS#3C – Roundtable
Training Lawyers for Sustainabilitythe Curriculum and Beyond
Fraser 159
Obstacles and Openings: A Transsystemic Roundtable on the Guiding
Principles of Corporate-Commercial
Law and Indigenous Legal Traditions
Fraser 152
Teaching Criminal Law to the Whole
Lawyer
Fraser 157
Maneesha Deckha
Chris Tollefson
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
Jeff McEown
4:45 –
5:15
CS#2B – Panel
Fraser 158
Clayton Bangsund, Signa Daum
Shanks, Freya Kodar, Shin Imai,
Carol Liao, Anna Lund, Brock Roe
Ben Berger, Michelle Lawrence,
Nikos Harris, Janet Mosher
CS#3D– Workshop
Fraser 158
“Educating the Whole Lawyer
through Clinical and Experiential
Programs: An Issue of Access?”
Facilitators: Shelley Kierstead &
Martha Simmons
Moderator: Sarah Buhler
Moderator: Martha Simmons
Moderator: Cornelia Mazgarean
Fraser 159
Marie-Ève Gagné, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), “ Research Trends in Legal Education : An Analysis of SSHRC Insight Grant
Applications in Law (since 1992)”
Conference Reception, Banquet and Boogie Wonderland
Grand Pacific Hotel
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Day Two – Friday 9 June
8:30 –
9:00
Breakfast – Fraser Lounge
9 :0010 :15
CS#4A – Panel
Fraser 159
CS#4B – Panel
Fraser 152
CS#4C – Panel
Fraser 158
CS#4D – Panel
Fraser 142
Patricia M. Barkaskas, “Decolonial
Resistance Pedagogy: Disrupting the
Violence of Normative Legal
Education”
Alexandra Flynn, “Experiential
Education for the Pre-Law Student”
Vandana Sood, Kim Hawkins,
Elizabeth Cameron and Jasmine
Nielson, “Mapping the Contours of
Unbundled Services: A Case Study”
David Sandomierski, “The Enormous
(But Largely Unrealized) Potential of
First Year Contract Law to Cultivate
the Whole Lawyer”
Jennifer Leitch, “Lawyers and SelfRepresented Litigants : Ethics,
Empathy and Whole Lawyering”
Michelle Lawrence, “What the whole
lawyer needs to know about the
retention, preservation and
spoliation of evidence”
Deborah Curran, “Putting Law in its
Place: Field School Learning and
Reconciliation”
Angela Cameron “Taking up the TRC
at the U of Ottawa Faculty of Law”
Siobhan Cullen & Bronagh Heverin,
“Explicit provision for the
transferable skill development of
undergraduate law students in the
Republic of Ireland”
Moderator: Mirja Trilsch
Moderator: Sarah Marsden
Moderator: John Kleefeld
Moderator: Patricia Barkaskas
10 :1510 :30
10:30
–
11 :15
Health Break – Fraser Lounge
CS#5A – Workshop
Fraser 159
CS#5B –Workshop
Fraser 152
CS#5C – Individual paper
Fraser 158
“Resilience – too vague, elitist, elusive?”
Facilitator: Maneesha Deckha
“Legal Project Management and Group Work in
the Clinical Setting and Beyond”
Facilitator: Cheryl Milne
Kristin Marshall, “Improving refugee law services
in Ontario: Mentorship must take into account
‘the whole lawyer’”
Moderator: Michelle Christopher
Moderator: Craig Forcese
Moderator: Lisa Cirillo
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11 :1512 :45
Plenary Session – Fraser 159
Towards a Manifesto – Anchoring the Legal Education Continuum in a Vision of the JD: Jesse Beatson, Benjamin Berger, Sarah Buhler, Gillian Calder,
Kate Glover, Sonia Lawrence, Janet Mosher, Michelle Smith, Netta Untershats
12 :451 :00
1 :00 –
2 :00
2 :00 –
3:30
Moderator: David Wiseman
Thomson Reuters Foundation Address
Lunch – Fraser Lounge
CALT AGM – Fraser 157
CS#6A– Workshop
Fraser 152
CS#6B – Workshop
Fraser 158
CS#6C – Workshop
Fraser 157
CS#6D – Panel
CALT Prize Winners, Fraser 159
“Educating the Whole Lawyer:
Transforming Law School Culture
and Classrooms Through Humanistic
Practices”
“Creating a Mindful Community
within Legal Education”
“The Challenge of Producing the
‘Whole Lawyer’ ”
Facilitator: Ellen Schlesinger
Facilitators: Nicola Holness &
Cornelia Mazgarean
Irehobhude O. Iyioha, “Towards a Coherent
Theory of Legal Effectiveness: Law, Limits
and the Intersecting Contexts of Inequities in
Women’s Healthcare Experiences”
Facilitators: Susan L. Brooks & Neil
Gold
Moderator: Cornelia Mazgarean
Moderator: Donna Franey
Hoi Kong, “Deliberation in the Classroom
and in Public Law Scholarship”
Malcolm Lavoie & Moira Lavoie, “Land
Regime Choice in Close-Knit Communities:
The Case of the First Nations Land
Management Act”
David Sandomierski, “Liberating Legal
Education Scholarship: Learning from the
Liberal Arts”
Signa A. Daum Shanks, “Why Coywolf Goes
to Court”
Moderator: John Kleefeld
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3:30 –
3:45
Health Break – Fraser Lounge
3:45 –
5 :15
CS#7A – Panel
Fraser 158
CS#7B – Panel
Fraser 157
CS#7C– Panel
Fraser 152
Susan Noakes, “Training a ‘Whole Lawyer’
Requires a ‘Whole Setting’: The importance of a
holistic practice in a clinical legal education
program”
Gemma Smyth & Dusty Johnstone, “TraumaInformed, Intersectional Approaches to
Lawyering Education: Preliminary Study Results”
Tamara Amoroso Gonçalves, “Lost in translation?
Moving between languages, cultures and legal
systems”
C. Tess Sheldon, “Teaching Trauma-Informed
Legal Services in Clinical Legal Education
Settings”
Rebeca Macias Gimenez, Trans-systemic
Research in Graduate School: Indigenous Rights
in Natural Resources Decision-making in Brazil
Moderator: Lisa Cirillo
Adrien Habermacher, “ Educating polyglot jurists
in Canada: Le pourquoi du comment”
Michele Leering, “Legal Educators and Reflective
Practice in Canada and Australia: Reimagining
Legal Education for the “Whole Lawyer”
Paul Quick, “Time to Think About What You’ve
Done – Instilling Reflective Practice and Character
Development Through Clinical Education in the
Prison Law Context”
5 :15 –
Moderator: John Kleefeld
Open Evening
5:15 –
7:00
UVic Law Centre 40 Anniversary Party
225-850 Burdett Avenue (Downtown Victoria)
Moderator: David Wiseman
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Day Three – Saturday 10 June
8:30 –
9:00
9:00 –
10:30
Breakfast – Fraser Lounge
CS#8A – Panel
Fraser 158
CS#8B – Workshop
Fraser 152
CS#8BC
Fraser 157
France Houle, Hoi Kong, Annie Rochette,
“Reforming an undergraduate program in depth:
obstacles and challenges”
New Modes of Clinical Legal Education: Structural
and Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities:
Michael Marin, Michael Litchfield, Geraldine
Sadoway
Qian Liu, “Why do Law Students Need to Study
Legal Consciousness?”
Heather Heavin & Martin Philipson, “Nunavut Law
School Curriculum Development”
Andrij Kowalsky, “Learning the Advocate’s Art:
Reflections on the Doctoral Defense in Law”
Moderator: Doug Ferguson
Moderator: Sarah Buhler
Moderator: Annie Rochette
10:30
–
10:45
10:45
– 12:15
Health Break – Fraser Lounge
CS#9A Roundtable
Fraser 152
“Family Law Needs Feminism because…”
Fraser 157
CS#9C – Workshop
Fraser 158
Building an Inclusive Corporate Commercial
Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion.
Gillian Calder, Vanessa Gruben, Mary Jane
Mossman & Karen Pearlston
“Ensuring the Competency of "Whole" Legal
Professionals: Maximizing Experiential Learning
Opportunities for Law Students”
Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Shin Imai, Freya Kodar,
Anna Lund, and Virginia Torrie
Moderator: Janet Mosher
Facilitators: Michelle Leering, Doug Ferguson, LA
Henry, Brea Lowenberger & Gemma Smyth
Moderator: Doug Ferguson
12:15 –
12:30
Conference Closing – Fraser 159
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