Projects and activities
Upcoming events:
Ninth Applied Legal Storytelling Conference
Date: 26th – 28th July 2023
Location: Law School Building
About the Conference
Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) examines the use of stories, storytelling, or narrative elements in law practice, legal education, and the law. Past presentations have addressed the ways in which 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; legal storytelling and cognitive science; and ethical considerations in legal storytelling.
The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together academics, judges, other law-makers, 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), and 2021 (Virtual/Mercer).
Summer 2023 Conference
This summer’s conference is hosted by the Legal Writing Institute, the Clinical Legal Education Association, and The City Law School, City, University of London. It will take place from Wednesday, July 26 through Friday, July 28, 2023. The conference will be held at the The City Law School and will take place in-person.
Programme
We anticipate opening the conference on Wednesday July 26 with a half or full day of programming plus an opening reception that will spotlight the poster presentations. Presentations will run through Friday afternoon, followed by a closing event at one of London’s historical Inns of Court: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Those who have attended previous conferences say that the closing event is not to be missed.
The programme schedule is currently being finalised.