9:30 - 9:45
Introductory Remarks
9:45 - 11:00
Session 1: Human Values
The ‘Irreducibly Human’ Lawyer: Generative AI, Virtue and Legal Education
Julian Webb, University of Melbourne, Australia
Climate Conscious Legal Education in the Era of AI
Rhea Roy Mammen, Leiden University, Netherlands
Re-Envisioning Legal Roles and Responsibilities in the Age of AI, Intransigent and Growing Justice Gaps, and the Opportunities and Challenges for Creating People-Centred Justice Systems
Michele Leering, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Canada
Centring Students for Access to Justice in an Uncertain Digital World
Laura Bee, University of Leicester, UK
11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:30
Session 2: Sense Making
Adventures in Pedagogy: The Importance of Creativity, Empathy and Imagination to Legal Education in Canada
Gillian Calder, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Canada
Human Creativity and Legal Research
Jennifer Chapman, University of Virginia Faculty of Law, US
Why Law Students Should Write: Building Capacity for Problem Setting
Audrey Fried, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
To Look at a Thing is Very Different from Seeing a Thing: Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Legal Education
José Ghirardi, FGV Sao Paulo Law School, Brazil
12:30 - 1:15
Break
1:15 - 2:30
Session 3: Human Connection
The Law Listens: Reimagining Lawyers as Companions, Not Just Counsel
Avni Bahri, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
“Why Don’t Lawyers Eat”?: Ecological Perspectives on Lawyering in an Externship Program
Gemma Smyth, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Canada
Cold Hands, Warm Heart? Lawyering in the Age of Zombie Neoliberalism
Emma Jones, University of Sheffield, UK
A Love Letter to Clinical Legal Education
Sarah Buhler, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Canada
2:30 - 3:00