CFP: 10th Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling
10th Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling
Call for Proposals
Hosted by The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 9-11, 2025
We are thrilled to announce the attached Call for Proposals for the tenth biennial conference on Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS). This conference is sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) and The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). We are offering two deadlines for submitting proposals: December 13, 2024 (priority deadline) and February 7, 2025 (extended deadline). Proposals can be submitted here.
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About the Conference
The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together academics, judges, other lawmakers, practitioners, and any other type of legal storyteller. The conference has previously convened in 2007 (London), 2009 (Portland), 2011 (Denver), 2013 (London), 2015 (Seattle), 2017 (Washington D.C.), 2019 (Boulder), 2021 (Virtual/Mercer), and 2023 (London).
AppLS examines the use of stories, storytelling, or narrative elements in law practice, legal education, and the law. This definition is intentionally broad to allow people creativity in the way they think and present on the topic. Examples may include:
- ways in which creative nonfiction and fiction-writing techniques or narrative theory can inform legal storytelling;
- stories in the law, or law as stories;
- legal storytelling and metaphor;
- client story advocacy;
- counter storytelling;
- professional identity formation through legal storytelling;
- cognitive nature and psychology of storytelling and narrative;
- using legal storytelling to foster empathy and promote civil discourse; and ethical considerations in legal storytelling.
Undoubtedly, there are many other avenues to explore
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