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We are delighted to provide full Session recordings and edited transcripts for the Queen’s Law virtual symposium, held June 22 – 24, 2026. Please note that if you chose to view closed captions - these are automatically generated using speech-to-text technology and may contain errors. You may prefer to review the edited transcripts because they are more accurate, as well as easier to follow and to read.
For details of each of the Sessions – including abstracts and speaker bios, you can find the full program here. We included brief details below for each session taken from the abbreviated program.
Welcome, Acknowledgement of Territory & Opening Address
Sharry Aiken | Professor, Queen's University Faculty of Law
Acknowledgement of Territory (0.00) & Opening Remarks (13.58)
Colleen M. Flood | Dean, Queen's University Faculty of Law
Welcoming Remarks (8.40)
Michele Leering | Visiting Scholar, Queen’s University Faculty of Law
Opening Address - Setting the Stage and Seeding the Ground: Reflective Practice in Law in all its Complexity and as a Catalyst for Change (25.26)
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Expanding our Understanding of the Transformative Impact of Reflective Practice
Gemma Smyth | Windsor
Reflective Practice: Pathways through Uncertainty
Timothy Casey | UCLA
Refined Reflection: A Second Look at Models of Reflection
Dustin Gumpinger | Sherbrooke
Reflective Practice, Moral Imagination, and the Rule of Law
Julian Webb | Melbourne
Building Ethics & Wellbeing Through (Moral) Organisational Resilience: An Extended Role for Reflective Practice in the Legal Ecosystem
Eduardo R.C. Capulong | Hawaii
Reflection as Resistance: The Personal-Professional Identity Dialectic and Political Agency
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Reflective Practice: Legal Regulators & Law Societies Roundtable
Barbra Bailey | Law Society of Alberta and Christian Hurley | Newfoundland & Labrador. Law Society
Reflective Practice Across the Lawyer Lifecycle: From Bar Admission to CPD
Chris Walsh (Law Society England & Wales)
Helping our Members get 'Shopfloor' Ready: How Embedding Reflective Practice Aims to Improve Professional Competency
Lucy Fraser and Alice Duggan | Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner
Cultivating Reflective Practice in the Victorian Legal Profession
Beata Pawlowska, Cassandra Barber and Megan Marshall | College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants
Reflective Practice and Public Protection: Professional Identity Formation in Immigration Practice
Naomi Horrox | Law Society of Ontario
Encouraging Reflective Practice at the Law Society of Ontario
Deborah Wolfe | Federation of Law Societies of Canada
Modernizing Canada's Assessment Policies and Assessment Tools for Internationally Educated Lawyers and Law Graduates
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Session 3 - Reflective Practice and Fostering Wellbeing
Rachael Field | Bond and Emma Jones | Sheffield
Reflective Practice as a Critical Element of a Proposed New Legal Wellbeing Pedagogy
Anna Copeland | Murdoch
Reflection Will Be the Thing That Saves You: Linking Reflective Practice to Wellbeing & Happiness in Graduating Students
Véronique Fortin and Claudia Bérubé | Sherbrooke
Integrating Reflective Practice and Professional Identity Formation in Week 3 of L1: Too Soon?
Tanya Lat | Ateneo Law School
Transforming Law Students into Happier, Healthier, and More Ethical Versions of Themselves: A Philippine Response to Patrick Schiltz 25 Years Hence
Raheena Lalani Dahya | Humber Polytechnic
Bias, Burnout, and Blind Spots: Why Reflection Matters in Trauma-Informed Law & ADR
Amy Dallas | US National Non-profit
In Right Relationship: Practicing and Teaching Trauma-Responsive Restorative Advocacy
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Fostering Professionalism & Developing Competency Across the Lifecyle and Professional Paths
Christian Duperouzel | Curtin
Self-Reflection and Self-Care for Emerging Legal Professionals: A Practical Legal Training (PLT) Perspective
Jennifer Davidson | Melbourne
Reflective Practice in Action: The Value of Reflective Practice in Integrated Services for Managers and Staff
Jane Ching | Nottingham Trent
Professional Adolescence: Towards a Terminology for Liminality in Legal Education
Achancho Pauline | Catholic University of Central Africa
Reflective Practice Amid Institutional Disorientation: Ethical Capacity Building for Legal Professionals in the Cameroon Judicial System
Sharry Aiken, Christa Bracci and Andrea Speltz | Queen’s
Reflective Practice in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Refugee Law
Maureen Silcoff | TMU
I Will Survive: Building a Sustainable Access to Justice Practice
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Advancing Reflective Practice & Methods: Part I
Deborah K. Burand | New York
Walking in Circles to New Insights: Conducting Reflective Meditations One Step at a Time (Due to technical difficulties, this presentation was re-recorded and will be found on the Abstracts tab under Deborah K. Burand's name)
Derrick Alexander Pope | Georgia State
Purple Reign: How the Artistry of Prince Helps Law Students — and the Professors that Teach Them — Explore Professional Identity
Ripal Gupta | National Forensic Sciences University
Pro Bono and Legal Aid Clinic as Stimulants: Cultivate Professional Identity and Ethical Resilience Through Reflective Legal Aid Practice
Anita Maddali | Northwestern
Insights from Divinity School that May Offer Tools for Teaching Law Students Self-Reflective Practices to Engage in Ethical and Moral Inquiry
Bernadette McDonald | Coach & Trainer
Borrowed Models, Blunt Tools: Rethinking Reflective Practice in Legal Education (Bernadette McDonald was unable to present, and we hope to record her presentation in the near future and it will be found on the Abstracts tab under her name)
J. Kim Wright | Quinnipiac, Kara McCarthy Perry | Quinnipiac and Susanne van der Meer | Consultant
Reflective Practice Playbook: Multimodal Experiential Activities to Guide Integrative Reflective Development in Legal Education and Law Practice
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What Law Can Learn from Health and Other Disciplines
Elizabeth Anne Kinsella | McGill
Professional Knowledge & the Epistemology of Reflective Practice: Engaging a Continuum of Reflection
Niki Soilis | McGill
Critical Reflections in Learning About Homelessness in Health Professions Education: Insights into Vulnerability, Institutional Fragmentation, and Structural Inequities
Corey Shdaimah | Maryland Baltimore
Modeling Reflective Practice: Pedagogical Opportunities in Natural Spaces of Encounter
Stella L Ng | Toronto/CACHE and Maria Mylopoulos | Toronto/Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Advancing Critically Reflective Practice & Adaptive Expertise in Health
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Reflective Practice and Indigenous Pedagogies & Ways of Knowing
Jamie Holmes | Windsor
Integrating Traditional Indigenous Learning Styles in Legal Education: Creating Reflective Learning in Law (3.03)
Patricia M. Barkaskas | UBC
Intersection of Indigenous Pedagogy in Reflective Practice to Create Opportunities for Connection and Solidarity Through Value Clarification and Ethical Engagement (15.00)
Florence Robert | Ottawa
Wapanakew as Pedagogy: Lessons for Reflective Practice in Legal Education (28.00)
Larissa Speak and Cassandra Spade | Bora Laskin/Lakehead
Naanaagadawenindizowin: Reflecting on Legal Education and Gidinaadiziwininaanan (40.20)
Lindsay Borrows | Queen’s
Rubrics for Reflection: Lessons Learned from a Case Study of an Indigenous Land-based Learning Course (55.30)
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Reflective Practice: Empowering Justice & Encouraging Systemic Change
Derk Venema and Iwan Wopereis | Open Universiteit
Repairing the Legal Dialogue by Reflective Practice: A Constructive Response to the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal
Alpita Shah | World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency
From Attention to Action in an AI Era: MEVA Seva as Reflective Praxis for the Justice-Facing Lawyer
Anna Pivaty and Aurora Canova | Radboud
The Ethical Lawyer of the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Fostering Reflection on Broader Societal Context in a Law School
Liz Curran | Nottingham Trent
Reflective Practice: Its Value in Creating Improvements in Service Delivery and Advancing People-Centred Justice
Valerie Le Blanc | U Vic and Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly | McGill
Access-to-Justice Education in Canada: Challenges and Potential for Reflective Practice
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Encouraging Critically Reflective Practice in Law
Judith Franklyn Harrison | Charles Darwin
Epistemic Urbanism and Law's Reflective Governance
Angbeen Atif Mirza | Shaikh Ahmad Hassan Law School
Building a Framework to Develop Reflective Praxis Amongst Law Students
Gillian Calder | UVic
Embodiment as Critical Reflection: Images and Art in the Law School Classroom
Avni Bahri | O.P. Jindal Global University (She was recorded at a later date and her presentation will be found under the Abstracts tab.)
From Critique to Praxis: Building Reflective Capacity in Legal Education
Emmanuelle Bernheim | Ottawa
From Reflective Learning to Political Engagement: How Can We Get Students Interested in the Law of Marginalized People?
Sarah-Jane Nussbaum | UNB (This speaker was not recorded)
Legal Education as Responsibility Building: Integrating Critical Perspectives and Reflective Practice in Criminal Law
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Advancing Reflective Practices & Methods: Part II
Michaela Keet | Saskatchewan
Using Reflective Practice to Support the Growth of Interpersonal Communication & Negotiation Competencies
Marjorie Silver | Touro
Cultivating Professional Identity for a Sustainable Life in the Law
Brenda Waugh | Lawyer, Mediator, Author
Transforming Legal Practices: Restorative and Reflective Approaches
Artemis Evangelidis | Law Institute of Victoria
The Mindful Lawyer of the Future
Rowan Meredith | Toronto and Sharon Sutherland | Mediate BC Society
Team-Based Learning Activities as Encouragement of Reflective Practice
Sonia Kalsi and Rachel Knowles | UCL
Reflection on Reflection: Supervision, Assessment and Beyond
Olaide A. Gbadamosi | Osun State University
Advancing a Reflective Approach to the Practice of Law
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The Reflective Educator & Transforming Law Schools
Prachi Motiyani | Univ. School of Law, Gujarat University (Prof. Motiyani's session is being re-recorded due to technical difficulties and when ready will be found under her name on the Abstracts tab)
Reflecting on Biopiracy: Legal Education and the Protection of Biodiversity and Transitional Knowledge
Odinakaonye Lagi | NULAI
From Implicit to Impactful: Advancing Reflective Practice in Legal Clinics
Olwyn C. Conway | AMM University Washing College of Law and Inga Laurent | Gonzaga
Reflective Practices in Restorative Legal Pedagogy
Anya Perret | Idaho
Beyond a Case Plan: Applying the Structure of Reflective Supervision of Mental Health Practitioners to Clinical Legal Education
Alexandra McEwan and Luke Price | Central Queensland
Navigating the Complexity of Polycrisis as Legal Educators: Reflective Practice as a Transformative Process
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Reflections and Where do We go from Here?
Michele Leering - Where do We Go From Here?
Dory Jade - Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (Symposium Sponsor)
Gemma Smyth - Closing Remarks
David Wiseman - Closing Remarks
Sharry Aiken - Closing Remarks
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Strengthening the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Law through Reflective Practice
Keynote address by Dr. Denise Stockley, folllowed by a reflective conversation with Dr. Michele Leering
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