The CLEA 2015 conference took place in Glasgow, Scotland in April 2015. CLEA have traditionally held their conference in the same city or the same region as the Commonwealth Lawyers Association’s conference. The Commonwealth Law Conference took place 12 – 16 April 2015, also in Glasgow.
The CLEA conference ran from Thursday 9th until Friday 10th April 2015 at Glasgow Caledonian University. Preceding the conference, there was a workshop on interactive teaching methods, organised by David McQuoid-Mason, the President of CLEA. After the conference, there was an optional organised tour arranged for Saturday 11th April to visit some of Scotland’s landmarks.
The Commonwealth Moot then took place from Sunday 12th until Wednesday 15th April.
Theme: Transnational Legal Education: Commonwealth Perspectives
Conference papers and other information can be viewed and searched here:
Lord Hope of Craighead delivered a keynote speech at the conference. In 1989 he was appointed direct from the bar to the bench as Lord Justice General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session. He held these offices for seven years until 1996, when he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
In 2009 he was appointed to be the second senior Lord of Appeal. Later that year the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords was transferred to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and he became its first Deputy President. He retired from that office in 2013 and is now active as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords.
A keynote speech was delivered by Prof. Justice Date-Bah, who is the Chairman of the University of Ghana Council. He was also a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, responsible for many leading judgments. He is currently the Chairman, Ghana Law Reform Commission and Chairman, Council of the University of Ghana, Legon.
Prof. Justice Date-Bah has held academic positions at the University of Ghana, University of Nairobi, University of Calabar as well as visiting positions at Lincoln College, Oxford University, Yale Law School and at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
A 1-day pre-conference seminar took place on Wednesday 8th April 2014, led by David McQuoid-Mason, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Patricia McKellar, University of London; and Lindi Coetzee, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.