Conference Information

Proposals for presenting a paper or panel are invited from scholars from all disciplines, legal professionals, judges, and students. Presenters are encouraged to submit papers within one of the below ten streams.

Topic Streams

Access to Justice Ethics
Empirical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethics, the Legal Profession, and the Judiciary
Ethics in the Judiciary
Education in Lawyer and Judicial Ethics
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology in the Legal Profession and the Judiciary
Globalization and Comparative Legal Ethics
Governmental Lawyers and Ethics
Leadership in Ethics
Philosophy and Ethics
Regulation of the Legal Profession
Rule of Law and Legal Ethics

The Conference will be organized into panel sessions. Normally, four to five papers will be presented in any one session. Applicants may submit individual papers, which will be assigned to appropriate panels by the organizers. Proposals for a panel session, involving paper presentations or other formats, are encouraged. Proposals for an individual paper must include the author/s, paper title, institutional affiliation, and an abstract of no more than 100 words. Proposals for panels must include the name of all panelists, paper title, institutional affiliation, and a panel abstract of no more than 250 words summarizing the papers. In addition to identifying conference stream, all abstracts should include up to five key words. In order to accommodate a diverse group of presenters, participants should not present in more than two events.

To summarise, proposals can be submitted in any of the following categories. Submissions must be made via the links provided below (email submissions will not be accepted).

Full Panel Submission

Proposals for a panel session, involving paper presentations or other formats, are encouraged.
3-4 presenters plus a moderator who may also present, or 5 presenters with a non-presenting moderator. Before you include someone as a speaker, please confirm that person is willing and able to participate.
ILEC 2026 is an in-person event, but in order to balance conference resources and expand accessibility, the conference will accommodate pre-arranged panels with limited virtual participation, with a maximum of 1 presenter who is presenting virtually and with up to four presenters physically in attendance at the conference to present and manage the panel in Singapore.
In order to accommodate a diverse group of presenters, participants should not present in more than two events.
Proposals for full panels must include title plus panel description of no more than 250 words summarizing the paper and the paper,
full names of all participants, their institutions, and paper titles, and Identify stream.
<<Link for submission to be provided later>>

Individual Paper Submission

Proposal for individual papers, which will be assigned to appropriate panels by the organizers.
Maximum of 2 co-presenters per paper (co-presenters have the same amount of panel time as one presenter)
Proposals for an individual paper must include the author/s, paper title, institutional affiliation, and an abstract of no more than 100 words.
<<Link for submission to be provided later>>

Round Table

A minimum of 3 discussants (including the moderator); or a maximum of 5 discussants plus 1 separate moderator.
Before you include someone as a speaker, please confirm that person is willing and able to participate. (Note that some round tables may be scheduled for 60 minutes, and some may be scheduled for 90 minutes. Please include your preference, and we will do our best to accommodate it.)
Proposals for a round table must include a title, round table description of no more than 250 words, full names of all participants and their institutions, and the proposed conference stream.
<<Link for submission to be provided later>>

Volunteer Moderator

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Prior Conferences

ILEC X “Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World”
University of Amsterdam Law School, July 2024

ILEC IX “Lawyers in A World of Crisis”
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA August 2022

ILEC VIII “Legal Ethics in the Asian Century”
Melbourne Law School, Australia December 2018

ILEC VII “Ethics and Regulation of Lawyers Worldwide: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” Fordham Law School, New York, USA July 2016

ILEC VI “Legal Ethics at a Time of Regulatory Change”
City Law School, London, United Kingdom July 2014

ILEC V “Merging Worlds, Emerging Discourses”
Banff, Alberta, Canada July 2012

ILEC IV “The Legal Profession in Times of Turbulence”
Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA July 2010

ILEC III “Integrity in Legal Practice”
University of Queensland and Griffith University, Australia July 2008

ILEC II “Professional Ethics and Personal Integrity”
University of Auckland, New Zealand July 2006

ILEC I “New Perspectives on Professionalism: Educating and Regulating Lawyers for the 21st Century”
University of Exeter, United Kingdom July 2004