The Faculty of Law’s 2011/12 Visiting Speakers Program includes the following distinguished speakers:

• Professor Eric Freyfogle, University of Illinois College of Law (September 20); 
• Professor Stephen Pitel, Western Law (November 3); 
• Lt. Col. Vandeveld, USA Reserves (November 17), whose talk on “The Failure of the Rule of Law at Guantanamo Bay” was recorded and is now available here;
• Alain Hepner, Q.C., Milvain Chair in Advocacy (January 5);
• David Scott, Q.C., Borden Ladner Gervais, Ottawa on "Access to Justice in Contemporary Society" (February 9);
• Ron Atkey, PC, QC, "Counter-Terrorism in Canada: Ten Years after 9/11" (February 16); and
• Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C., Arvay Finlay Barristers (March 22).

The Voices in Law portion of our program is supported by the Alberta Law Foundation.

The Faculty also hosts a number of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) opportunities, as well as conferences, workshops, and faculty research seminars each year.  See here for this year's events, as well as papers and slide presentations from past  events.