2025 CONFERENCE

We are pleased to invite you to the University of Queensland for the 2025 Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA) Conference, to be held from Wednesday 2 July to Friday 4 July 2025. We invite legal academics, practitioners, and policymakers to engage in discussions on the evolving landscape of legal education and research. This year’s theme highlights the practical, intellectual, and emotional aspects of balancing contemporary values, priorities, and imperatives in our work.

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Legal educators and scholars today are juggling competing demands. Traditional constraints on legal education (regulatory, economic, structural) often exist in tension with the urgent need to incorporate contemporary issues, such as First Nations truth-telling, climate justice, technological transformation, and global debates on equity and inclusion. The evolving legal profession is requiring us to rethink how we teach, research, and prepare students for practice. Legal scholars experiencing increasing resourcing constrains need to rapidly respond to the changing local and global political climate.

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The ALAA 2025 Conference seeks to foster dialogue and innovative solutions for these dynamic challenges across all areas of law. We encourage submissions that explore:

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• Incorporating First Nations perspectives into legal curricula and research: best practices and challenges;

• Pacific perspectives on law, justice, and legal education;

• Climate change and environmental justice: integrating discussions of the climate crisis into legal education and scholarship, particularly into the core curriculum;

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies: their impact on legal research, assessment, and professional roles and competencies;

• Legal pedagogy and curriculum design: navigating innovation within regulatory constraints;

• Equity, diversity, and inclusion: embedding these considerations meaningfully into the legal curriculum; and

• Fostering ethical and social justice-oriented legal education: how can we instil these values in students?