Centre for Legal Education Conference 2026
The future begins now
Building on the success of previous conferences, the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Law School is delighted to announce its seventh international conference.
Type of event: Conferences | Seminars | Webinar | Workshops
From: Monday 29 June 2026, 11 am
To: Friday 3 July 2026, 3 pm
Booking deadline: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 12.00 pm
Event details
Event details
We invite participants from the whole range of legal education contexts. This includes, for example, professional regulators and professional bodies; legal sector employers; researchers whose work has an impact on law students, law teachers or legal practitioners, librarians and information professionals; stakeholders in and users of research, psychologists, professional support lawyers; training principals and pupillage supervisors; CPD/CLE providers; academic, vocational and postgraduate course designers and teachers; research and other students/candidates; and new lawyers. We also extend our welcome to participants from outside England and Wales. We welcome diversity and innovation in delivery.
We anticipate that sub-themes for this year’s conference will include:
- New contexts of learning and working
- The challenges and joys of technology
- Sustainability and the UN SDGs
- New voices: students and new lawyers
- In collaboration with Queen's University's Faculty of Law (Canada) and the International Symposium on Reflective Practice for Legal Professionals: reflective learning, inquiry, and practice and the benefits this professional competency provides for legal professionals
For enquiries about CPD accreditation, or for any other enquiries or suggestions, please contact the organisers, on CentreforLegalEducation@ntu.ac.uk.
On each of Monday to Thursday inclusive there will be an online session in the morning and another in the afternoon (UK time). Participation on Friday will be in person. There are limited spaces for the in-person event. Once it is fully booked you can contact the Centre for Legal Education to be added to a waiting list.
Proposals should be submitted via this Microsoft form, before 4 February 2026. All proposals will be peer reviewed. Proposals that are not related to the overall topic or themes of the conference, in particular those based on unrelated substantive law topics, can, with regret, not be accepted.
NB: we expect that those whose proposals are accepted will a) positively confirm their attendance and b) also register as conference participants in the appropriate section or sections. No charge is made for participation in the online section of the conference. A small fee will be charged for participating in the in person section. Visa letters, where required, will be made available only after registration has been completed. We are unable to accept block bookings of more than four people in a group for the in person section.
We also expect that one or more sessions can be reserved as “troubleshooting clinics” enabling those with interests in similar aspects of legal education to share good practice and address challenges in a friendly and collegial setting. Suggestions of suitable topics for troubleshooting clinics are invited.
Further details
Further details, including provisional programme and keynote speaker, will appear here in due course.
Cost
- 29 June - 2 July 2026: no charge
- 3 July: £55 (NTU staff and students are exempt)
Programme
All times are UTC +1
Monday 29 June 2026 | 1030-1200 (online) | Session 1 Welcome to the conference Keynote: Reflective Practice as Instrumental and Transformative: Seeding the Ground for Enhanced Professional Competence, Reflective Professionalism, Lifelong Learning, and a Cultural Shift in the Legal Profession. Michele Leering, Queen’s University, Canada (30 minutes) Workshop: Maintaining academic integrity for dissertations in the age of generative AI - sharing new approaches and best practice Nandini Boodia-Canoo; University College London, UK (60 minutes) Chair: Jane Jarman |
Monday 29 June 2026 | 1415-1615 (online) | Session 2 Panel: Reflective Practice in the Age of Algorithmic Reasoning: Professional Competence and Agency in Technology-Mediated Legal Contexts Adriana Baselice, University of Naples L’Orientale: Legal Practice under Blockchain: Agency and Competence Lorenzo Agati, Laroma Jezzi & Partners; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: A Decade of BEPS Project: Rethinking International Tax Governance and Legal Education Ludovica Fava, University of Naples Federico II, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Italy: Algorithmic Decision-Making in Public E-Procurement: Reflective Legal Practice and Professional Agency in Technology-Mediated Administrative Decision-Making Giuseppe Micciarelli, University of Naples Federico II, and CNR-IRISS Italy: discussant Chairs: Francesco De Nigris; Alfredo Guarino Law Firm; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Domenico Salvatore Galluccio; University of Naples Federico II, Italy. (60 minutes) Panel: Connecting Pedagogy with Practice to Offer a More Inclusive Approach to Legal Professional Development Charlotte Houghteling, Marc Howe and Gayle McKemey, Oxford Brookes University, UK (60 minutes) Chair: Jane Ching |
Tuesday 30 June 2026 | 0930-1030 (online) | Session 3 Workshop: Are human rights 'urbanist'? An exploratory workshop applying lawyer's skills Judy Harrison, Charles Darwin University, Australia (60 minutes) Chair: Pamela Henderson |
Tuesday 30 June 2026 | 1415-1545 (online) | Session 4 Scaffolding Student Support in a Turbulent Higher Education Landscape: Re-thinking CADSIF for Contemporary Legal Education Laura Hughes-Gerber, Lancaster University and Noel McGuirk, Ulster University, UK (30 minutes) Exploring Legal Research Skills in Practice – Alumni & Students in Partnership Amanda Millmore, University of Reading, UK (30 minutes) Teaching Law in the AI Era: why methodology matters? Marina Feferbaum and Paulo Doron R. de Araujo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas São Paulo Law School, Brazil (30 minutes) Chair: Jane Ching |
Wednesday 1 July 2026 | 1100-1230 (online) | Session 5 Preparing Law Students for Algorithmic Harm: Pedagogical Challenges for Responsibility, Causation, and Consent in Human Rights Contexts Wakila Hussain, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh (30 minutes) New Voices in Legal Education: An International Student’s Autoethnography Across Legal Traditions Han Lu, University of New South Wales, Australia (30 minutes) Generative AI as Pedagogy: Reflective and Inclusive Learning Design Neeti Shikha, UWE Bristol, UK (30 minutes) Chair: Pamela Henderson |
Wednesday 1 July 2026 | 1415-1615 (online) | Session 6 Public legal education and professional development training what works, in what situations and in what circumstances: reaching into underserved communities and the value of ‘trusted intermediaries.’ Liz Curran, Nottingham Trent University, UK (30 minutes) Situating Law within Systems of Power: Promoting Critical Reflexivity Through Curricular Reform Ashna Hudani, McGill University and Safeera Jaffer, University of British Columbia, Canada (30 minutes) From Bedside Manner to Bar-Side Manner: Adapting Healthcare’s Emotional Intelligence Training for Legal Education Danni Bian, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA (30 minutes) Teaching Executive Functioning to Law Students Nicholas A Smith, University of Idaho, USA (30 minutes) Chair: Matthew Homewood |
Thursday 2 July 2026 | 1030-1130 (online) | Session 7 Teaching for integration: Aesthetics, Resilience and Reflection Michelle LeBaron, University of British Columbia, Canada (30 minutes) Technology as a Blight and Blessing for University Academics A Vijayalakshmi Venugopal, Faculty of Business and Law, Taylor's University, Malaysia. (30 minutes) Chair: Joy Davies |
Thursday 2 July 2026 | 1415-1545 (online) | Session 8 Navigating the Transition: Integrating Skills and Developing Adaptability, Belonging, and Well-Being for Student Success Lucinda Bromfield, BPP University Law School, Noel McGuirk, Ulster University, Alex Reid, University of York, Claire Stocks, University of Chester and Alexandra Hay, Keele University, UK. (30 minutes) An introduction to the European Journal of Legal Education Jane Ching, Nottingham Trent University and Greta Bosch, University of Exeter, UK (30 minutes) I Accuse Myself: The Unintentional Weaponising of Reflection in a Disciplinary Context. Jane Jarman, Nottingham Trent University, UK (30 minutes) Chair: Katie Robertshaw |
Friday 3 July 2026 | 0930-1000 (face to face) | Registration, coffee, tea |
1000-1130 (face to face) | Session 9 Welcome From Toolkit to Courtroom: The Role of The Advocate’s Gateway in Legal Education and Training Jonathan Doak, Nottingham Trent University, UK AI Augmented Advocacy: The Use of Chatbots to Support the Development of Cross-Examination Skills in New Advocates. Jane Jarman, Mathew Game, Kareem Al-Dairi, Nottingham Trent University, UK New approaches to emotion regulation in SQE 2 Advocacy teaching Paulo Karat, Orla Slattery, Nottingham Trent University, UK Chair: Helen Swift | |
1130-1230 (face to face) | Session 10 Co-designing the future of law Karen Watton, Queen Mary University of London, UK Chair: Jonathan Doak | |
1230-1330 (face to face) | Lunch. | |
1330-1430 (face to face) | Session 11 Implementing Reflective Practice in Legal Education at Strathclyde Law School: A Compulsory Third Year Reflective Report Module Michael Randall, University of Strathclyde, UK
A collaborative reflection on approaches to reflective learning for students of law Leela Cejnar, University of Warwick and Hannah Gibbons-Jones, University of Nottingham, UK Chair: Paulo Karat | |
1430-1530 (face to face) | Session 12 Teaching Lawyers to Code (Without Actually Coding): Developing Technical Literacy in a Masters-Level Cyber Law Module Rebecca Parry, Nottingham Trent University, UK Science Literacy in Legal Practice: New Voices from Aspiring Lawyers Owen Yates, Paraic Scanlon and Sarah Cooper, Birmingham City University, UK Chair: Jane Ching | |
1530-1630 (face to face) | Session 13 Is Gen-AI going to replace thinking "like" a lawyer? Rokeya Chowdhury, Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Ontario, Canada Preparing Tomorrow’s Lawyers to Protect Today’s Children: Rethinking Legal Education on Child Sexual Abuse. Ibhade Oluwabunlola Adisa-Ibojo; Lead City University, Nigeria. Chair: Chinemelum Arinze-Umobi | |
1630-1700 (face to face) | Endnote Pamela Henderson, Nottingham Trent University, UK |