Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference
Exeter 2026
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