Conferences, Workshops & Seminars
Upcoming Offerings:
Continuing Legal Education courses
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is now a mandatory requirement for all active lawyers. To answer this need in the legal community, the University of Calgary Faculty of Law hosts Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to assist active lawyers to meet the CPD requirement.
Check back for the 2012 CLE course offerings.
Faculty Research Seminars
For a list of all of seminar offerings, check here.
Past Offerings:
Papers and/or PowerPoint presentations are available for downloading from the following conferences:
Mediating the Litigated Case
Date: May 9 - 14, 2011
Speakers: Peter Robinson, Jim Craven, Judge Heather Lamoureux, and Elaine Seifert, QC
Now lawyers and other established professionals can use their expertise to break into a new area of practice with tremendous possibilities. This program offers a unique opportunity to learn about the mediation process in a format geared specifically toward civil litigation cases from the perspective of experienced lawyers. Taught by experienced lawyers, who have made the transition from litigation to mediation practice, course participants will learn the essential skills required to serve as mediators.
Take a look at the course brochure.
Oil Sands: Navigating the Legal & Regulatory Terrain
Date: May 11, 2011
Speakers: Dean, Alastair Lucas, Bernard J. Roth, John Goetz, Nigel Bankes, Astrid Kalkbrenner, Patricia Johnston, Mark Ignasiak, Allan Ingelson, Susan McRory, and J. Owen Saunders
The oil sands give Canada the second largest national oil reserve total on the Globe. They are and will continue to be the driver for Alberta's economy. The legal and regulatory picture for the oil sands shows both traditional developmental and regulatory oil and gas law and entirely new subjects and issues. These range from the North American regulatory challenges to Carbon Capture and Storage, environmental regulation, Aboriginal constitutional challenges and even the role of nuclear energy. To present this picture we have assembled leading scholars and teachers from U of C Law's Internationally recognized Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Specialization, along with leading practitioner experts.
Take a look at the tri-fold brochure.
The Law of Species Protection in Alberta
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 8:00am - 5:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Herrero, author of Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance. This one-day seminar is designed to provide a survey of the law of species of protection. The focus will be on the federal Species at Risk Act, while also covering the interaction between the federal, provincial and other regimes.
Speakers: Shaun Fluker, Dr. Stephen Herrero, Terri-Lee Oleniuk, Journey Paulus, Peter Miller, JoAnn Jamieson, and Nigel Bankes
Take a look at the tri-fold brochure.
Improvisational Negotiation
Date: June 16 - 18, 2011
Speakers: Jeffrey Krivis, Brian Breiter, Judge Heather Lamoureux, and Elaine Seifert, QC
Improvisational Negotiation is about working within a structure that allows for spontaneity without being bound by precise formulas or equations. The objective is to steer away from the conventional wisdom that produces a rigid and uniform negotiation methodology. This is not to say that improvising means, "anything goes". Instead Improvisational Negotiation relies on this structure for developing and mastering skill sets that support the uniqueness of each individual negotiation - its parameters, participants, challenges and objectives.
Take a look at the course brochure.
PhytoMetaSyn GE3LS Workshop >>
March 24 and 25, 2011
The Deepwater Horizon Spill: Causes, Cures, and Consequences
Date: February 10, 2011
Guest Speakers: Jacqueline Lang Weaver & Phillip Saunders
1. Selected Bibliography information
2. "Deja vu all over again" The Alaskan Oil Spill Comm'n Report
3. The Canadian Offshore: Regulatory Challenges Powerpoint presentation - Phillip Saunders
4. The Deepwater Horizon Spill: Causes, Consequence and Cures? Powerpoint presentation - Jacqueline L. Weaver
The Law of Environmental Impact Assessment
Thurs., May 14, 2009 >> more
Critical Intersections for Energy & Water Law: New Challenges and Opportunities Conference
Weds. & Thurs., May 20-21, 2009 >> more
Critical Intersections Presenters, left to right: Alistair RieuClarke, Al Lucas, Melinda HarmBenson, Richard Paisley, Patricia Wouters, Allan Ingelson, Kathleen Callison, Stephen McCaffrey, Gregory Weber, Steven Weissman and Nidhi Srivastava.
The Alberta Land Stewardship Act - a Practical and Critical Colloquium
May 20th, 2010 >> more