Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference

Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference

Exeter 2026

Programme

Indicative Only – Subject to Change


15 APRIL 2026

18:30 – 20:30 Pre-Conference Drinks


16 APRIL 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 10:00 Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Professor Caroline Fournet, Head of the Law School, University of Exeter

Professor Mark O’Brien, Chair of the Association of Law Teachers

Keynote Speaker (To be announced)

10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions I

12:00 – 13:00 Keynote Speaker (to be announced)

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions II

15:00 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Sessions III

18:30 – 21:00 Conference Drinks Reception & Dinner at Reed Hall, a stunning grade II listed building nestled in a beautiful area of campus among landscaped gardens


17 APRIL 2026

08:00 – 08:30 Welcome Coffee

08:30 – 09:30 Keynote Speakers

Kirsten Maslen is Senior Director of Growth & Commercial Strategy at Thomson Reuters, where she leads growth planning and commercial strategy for the Legal Professionals Europe business. A former projects lawyer, she moved from private practice to the public sector, advising on PPP and complex outsourcing, before joining Practical Law as an editor on procurement, outsourcing and public-to-public arrangements. She has since held proposition, product strategy and marketing roles at Thomson Reuters. Her recent projects include working on the design, development and testing of AI agents for due diligence and contract compliance.

Professor Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics and an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists in such work, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and, professional regulators and representatives. He blogs at lawyerwatch and on the Post Office Scandal, and regularly features in professional and national press.

09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions IV

11:00 – 11:20 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

11:20 – 12:40 Programme Partner Parallel Panels


12:40 – 13:45 Lunch & ALT AGM

13:45 – 15:15 Parallel Sessions V

15:15 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Sessions VI

16:45 – 17:00 Closing & Announcement of Prizes