Call for Papers and Posters: From Binary to Bench: Empowering Equal Opportunities and AI Literacy in Global Legal Education
The University of Reading is hosting a Symposium on the subject of “Empowering Equal Opportunities and AI Literacy in Global Legal Education” on Wednesday 5th November 2025 at its Whiteknights campus. The Symposium is being kindly funded by the Society of Legal Scholars.
Submissions:
Submissions are open to legal academics, practitioners, and an interdisciplinary cohort from fields outside the legal discipline. Contributions can explore the impact of GenAI on various aspects of education, including assessments, classroom teaching, law clinics, employability, research skills, experiences of using specific AI tools and their success/limitations, pedagogic critiques about these AI tools, and more to create equal opportunities in legal education.
We offer special encouragement to PhD students, with the opportunity for three selected abstracts for papers or academic posters to receive funding for in-person attendance, focusing on quality and alignment with the Symposium’s themes. For poster submissions, please submit an abstract about your research, and information about poster sizing to follow.
Submitting an abstract:
To submit an abstract for either a paper presentation or poster please complete this form by Friday 7th March 2025. Participants will be notified of the outcome of their application by Friday 28th March 2025 All accepted abstracts will be disseminated before the Symposium to registered attendees as a digital zine, as an engaging, inclusive and accessible pedagogic resource. It is intended that there will be an opportunity to contribute papers to an edited collection following the symposium.
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