How to submit a paper

Proposals for papers are welcome from all jurisdictions.  As a guide, papers will be 40 minutes duration including discussion times.  Special arrangements can be made (eg double length workshop sessions, debates etc) but need to be agreed in advance by the conference planning committee.
Proposals should include the following:

• Title
• Name of author(s), role and institution, including e-mail address
• Brief written abstract (approximately 200-300 words)

 

Sample abstracts from the 2011 conference can be viewed on this conference website (see main menu).

Authors should seek to fit their proposals within the broad themes of the conference as specified in the call for papers. This year’s particular themes include:

Clinic for All?

• In whose interest?  Clients, the profession or students?
• Who leads?  Students, the profession or academics?

Should clinic integrate into traditional legal teaching?

• What is the evidence that clinic works?
• What are the limitations of clinical teaching?  Can clinic teach the law or just skills?
• The relationship between lawyering skills instruction elsewhere in the curriculum and the clinical experience;
• what should be the role of classroom instruction in the clinical experience?

Should all students have the opportunity to do clinic?

• How do students’ age, experience and legal knowledge affect the clinical experience they can have?  Can a first year law student work in clinic?

Should clinics engage more with the profession?

• What can the faculty and the profession learn from each other?
• What can we learn from our clinic graduates’ subsequent professional experience?
• How should clinics and externships co-exist or are they destined to compete for support from their law schools?

Papers involving workshops and other interactive sessions are particularly welcome.

Papers are also welcome in relation to standing conference themes:

• International clinical legal education
• Trends in international clinical education
• Clinic twinning projects
• Clinical scholarship
• Reporting research findings (final or interim)
• Asessement/grading of clinical legal education – in particular: how do rubrics and other techniques help in the grading/evaluation process?
• Evidencing best practice
• New clinics and new clinicians
• Review of clinic operations
• Student and faculty attitudes to clinical learning

 

Proposals should be submitted by 1 April 2012.  Proposal should be e-mailed to maureen.cooke@northumbria.ac.uk.

All proposals will be considered by a conference planning group and submission of a proposal does not guarantee that it will be accepted.  Consideration of papers will begin prior to the deadline so early proposals may receive a decision and confirmation of participation more quickly.