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Conferences, Events, and Meetings
The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) sponsors several events each year that support CLEA's mission and promotes any events relevant to clinicians.
CLEA’s conference committee reviews applications for event funding and typical grant amounts are $500.00. There is no set deadline but applications must be received prior to the event with enough time for the committee to review. Applications and additional guidelines available here.
Please note that conference as well as other events are potentially eligible for funding. Events might include clinical scholarship workshops, teaching symposia, advocacy trainings, or other forums that support CLEA's mission. Events that support or benefit only the host school will be not be considered.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Teaching Justice Webinar Series
A project of the CLEA Best Practices Committee
What is the Teaching Justice Webinar Series?
The Teaching Justice Webinar series features a number of innovative faculty who will discuss new approaches to teaching justice in the classroom. Each session will draw on the wisdom of current resistance movement and examine its intersections with criminal justice, immigration policy, racial justice, economic justice, and international human rights, among other issues.
This series will explore the theory behind experiential faculty’s decision-making processes during an intense political movement, asking the question, “How do we show up as lawyers and teachers?” Presenters also hope to develop a shared vocabulary and a deeper understanding of what it means to be a lawyer, whether we consider ourselves movement lawyers, rebellious lawyers, or transformative lawyers.
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Applied Legal Storytelling Conference
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 9-11, 2025
Join us for the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor from July 9-11, 2025. This conference brings together legal scholars, educators, and practitioners to explore the theory and practice of applied legal storytelling. Share your insights and experiences through panels, workshops, and paper presentations.
The Call for Proposals is now available.
PRESENTATION FORMATS
We encourage creativity in presentation formats! And, like previous AppLS conferences, this conference will be collegial, inclusive, and supportive of your work. The conference will include 45-minute and 25-minute time slots. For the 45-minute time slots, we welcome interactive, panel (3-5 panelists), or roundtable (discussion-based) presentation proposals, as well as other format types. For the 25-minute time slots, we envision presenters adopting something like the 14-to-18-minute TED-style format of rehearsed presentations that center on one idea conveyed through narrative, with reserved time for audience questions. The conference will also include poster presentations where participants can showcase their ideas with a poster, slides, or through other multimedia. On the proposal form, please indicate either a preference for a particular format or your willingness that we accept your proposal in any of the formats and time constraints.
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
We welcome and encourage presentation proposals from faculty, lawmakers, and practitioners engaged in a variety of disciplines and from schools and organizations around the world. On the proposal form, we ask for a short description of fewer than 50 words (hard limit) for use in the conference program and a narrative description of your proposal for selection purposes (500 words maximum).
DEADLINES
To allow greater flexibility for those interested in submitting a proposal, the Program Committee has established two submission deadlines:
The Priority Deadline for submissions is December 13, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The Program Committee will review all proposals received by this date by mid-January.
The Committee will also consider proposals submitted by the Extended Deadline, February 7, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, and will review these proposals by the first week of March.
CONFERENCE STRUCTURE
The Program Committee will review the proposals and respond according to the submission date. Those who submitted proposals by the Priority Deadline (Dec. 13) will be notified by mid-February if their proposal has been accepted. Those who submitted their proposal by the Extended Deadline (Feb. 7), will be notified by late-March.
SELECTION PROCESS
All selected presenters will be expected to present in person. Additionally, presenters will be required to pay the conference registration fee and cover their own costs for travel and accommodations. The 2025 conference will begin with a reception in the late afternoon of July 9, 2025, and there may be one or two sets of presentations beforehand. The next two days, July 10-11, 2025, will be devoted to a plenary session and presentations given in concurrent sessions.
LODGING
We have reserved blocks of hotel rooms close to the law school:
The Graduate Hotel (0.5 miles)
615 E Huron Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 USA
The Graduate Hotel Booking Link
The Bell Tower Hotel (0.4 miles)
300 S. Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
The Bell Tower Hotel Booking Link
The Hyatt Ann Arbor (2.3 miles)
3223 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108
The Hyatt Ann Arbor Booking Link
Free Hotel Shuttle Available
REGISTRATION
We will send out registration information early in 2025. We expect the conference registration fee to come in around $450 (this cost covers lunches, a dinner, and administrative costs associated with hosting a conference).
QUESTIONS
If you have questions, please feel free to contact any member of the conference planning committee:
Aysha Ames, Fordham Law School
Ted Becker, The University of Michigan Law School
Jessica Lefort, The University of Michigan Law School
Beth Wilensky, The University of Michigan Law School
Gopal Balachandran, Penn State Law Sha-Shana Crichton,
Howard University School of Law
D’lorah Hughes, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law
Anne Ralph, Moritz College of Law - The Ohio State University
Ruth Anne Robbins, Rutgers Law School
Nantiya Ruan, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
Bryan Schwartz, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law - Arizona State University
Cecilia Silver, Yale Law School
Paige Snelgro, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
Kristen Tiscione, Georgetown Law School
Do you have an event you would like to see here? Email events@cleaweb.org.