Speaker Information

We are looking forward to welcoming all our session chairs, speakers and presenters both in-person and virtually to the Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference at the University of Exeter on 16 & 17 April 2026, and to hearing all about your work. This page serves as a speaker information kit which contains all the details you need prior to and during your participation at ALT 2026. Please view the Delegate Information page for details related to conference logistics, and do check back regularly as we will be posting information regularly in the lead up to the event.

If speakers / presenters have any questions, please email David Yuratich at alt2026@exeter.ac.uk.

Registration for Presenters

If you are presenting and have not already done so, please ensure that you have registered for the conference here before 5 pm on Thursday 09 April (we are unable to accept any in-person registrations after this date / time).

Slides

We recommend using PowerPoint for any slides and bringing your slides on a USB stick. If you would like to send us your slides in advance of a presentation to forward to the session chair, please do so before close of business on Monday 13 April to alt2026@exeter.ac.uk (please include which session you are presenting in).

Timings

The parallel sessions are all 90 minutes in length. If your session features 3 papers, this gives speakers 20 minutes for each paper and allows for good Q&A / discussion time. If your session has 4 papers, this allows for 15 minutes per paper so we can ensure a total of 25-30 minutes of Q&A and discussion. There will be a chairperson from Exeter Law School or the Association of Law Teachers for each of the parallel sessions.

The workshops and panels will also run for 90 minutes but will not be chaired sessions. We ask that all speakers and presenters please ensure that they keep their sessions running strictly to time.

Please be present in your session room a few minutes before it starts, in order to get set up. Session chairs will need to keep each session to very strict time so please ensure that you do not go over your allocated duration to ensure that all sessions run smoothly.

For Online Presenters

If presenting online, you will receive a Teams link for your session from the University of Exeter. Can we please ask online speakers to ensure that they are in the waiting room before the start of the session, and can we please ask that your display name is your actual name to help the chair identify you as a speaker.

Nomination for Prizes

There will be 2 prize categories at the conference:

The Chris Gale Prize for best co-presented paper
The Stan Marsh Prize for best overall paper

Please note that the rules for the Stan Marsh (best paper) and Chris Gale (best co-presented paper) Prizes now do not require a paper to be submitted in advance. The prize will be judged on the basis of the presentation on the day. Winners of the prizes will receive prize money following the conference. The expectation is that within 6 months of the conference, the winners should be in a position where they are able to submit a full manuscript of the paper to The Law Teacher to be considered by the editorial team following the journal’s normal peer review process (i.e. winning the prize does not guarantee publication). Please confirm on this form that you wish to be entered for the Prize by completing it before Monday 13 April so that judges can be assigned.