Call for Proposals for the 18th Global Legal Skills Conference in Monterrey, Mexico, to be held December 2 – 4, 2026!
The 18th Global Legal Skills Conference will be held at Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico, on December 2-4, 2026.
The Global Legal Skills Conference Program Committee is welcoming proposals to the 18th Global Legal Skills Conference! The Global Legal Skills Conference focuses on international legal education and essential skills, including legal writing, legal research, legal reasoning, legal English, translations, and advocacy skills. Additional topics include creating appropriate materials and assignments, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges, and related fields.
The conference audience will include legal writing professionals, international and comparative law professors, clinical professors and others involved in skills education, law school administrators, law librarians, and ESL/EFL professors. Also attending will be faculty members teaching general law subjects with a transnational or international component. Attendees have also included judges, lawyers, court translators, and others involved in international and transnational law. Attendees come from around the world, and as many as 35 countries have been represented in past conferences.
Proposal Submission Form
All proposals must be submitted through this GLS Call for Proposals Form.
Proposal Submission Deadlines
There are two deadlines for submitting proposals: a Priority Deadline, and a Second Deadline.
Priority Deadline: The priority deadline is Friday, May, 1, 2026 at 23:00 GMT. Proposals submitted by May 1 will be given priority. The Program Committee will notify presenters by the end of May whether their presentation has been accepted.
Second Deadline: The second deadline is Friday, September 18, 2026 at 23:00 GMT. For proposals submitted by the second deadline, the Program Committee will notify presenters by the end of October.
Proposal Guidance
Please submit a proposal on any aspect of Global Legal Skills, including experiential learning, distance education, comparative law, international law, course design and materials, teaching methods, use of legal skills in practice, and opportunities for teaching anywhere in the world.
Presentation proposals should demonstrate a focus on global aspects of legal skills education or legal practice. Because the conference focuses on legal skills for a global audience, please tailor your proposal accordingly.
To learn more about some of the topics that have been covered at prior Global Legal Skills conferences, you can review many of the past conference programs here.
Presentation Format
All lecture/panel presentations will be 20 minutes.*** Most presentations will be in English but proposals in other languages are also welcome. The conference attracts an international audience and the conference organizers understand that global legal skills do not exist in English only. We welcome presentations on academic subjects, but we also encourage presentations that demonstrate effective methods/pedagogy for skills training.
***A small number of 45-minute sessions will be available but will be limited to presentations that offer active audience engagement and experiential skills training. If you would like to be considered for one of these limited availability sessions, please describe how you will optimize the longer session and the type of interaction that will take place. (If you are not selected for one of these 45-minute sessions, you may be offered a 20-minute session). Additionally, if proposals overlap in themes or content, presenters may be selected and asked to present on a panel related to that theme.
Registration and Travel
All presenters and attendees will be required to register, pay the conference registration fee, and cover their own costs related to attending the conference. Details regarding travel and registration will be posted on this website soon.
Additional information about the GLS Conference
This is a self-funded academic conference, all attendees, including presenters, will be asked to pay the Conference registration fee.
We invite participation from academics and practitioners from all disciplines and all continents to explore ways that law schools around the world can prepare students to engage in the global legal marketplace.
Megan Davis (University of Houston Law Center)
Chair, GLS 18 Program Committee