Graduate student workshop

Graduate student workshop

Each year, the Canadian Environmental Law scholar community invites graduate students to submit work for inclusion in the Annual Graduate Student Workshop in Justice, Ecology, Law & Place. Students may also attend the workshop without submitting written work.

The workshop is held virtually online to facilitate broad participation from interested students across the country. 

The JELP community is a group of primarily Canadian scholars, practitioners, and graduate students who research, teach, work, and write on a range of issues related to what has been known as environmental law, such as climate change, energy, biodiversity, water, and Indigenous territories and natural resources. While we stimulate the publication and discussion of environmental law scholarship in Canada, over the past few years we have expanded our scope in recognition of the multiple legal orders and interdisciplinary/intersocietal approaches to engaging with ecology and place. As part of our activities, we would like to provide new scholars with a venue through which they can start building their academic networks and provide a format that will assist them in furthering their work and presentation skills in a low-stress way.

For the annual Graduate Student Workshop in Justice, Ecology, Law & Place, a select number of students will have the opportunity to workshop a scholarly work-in-progress. Students are invited to submit a paper up to ten pages long addressing an issue concerning the environment and what we call Canada. Participating students will then be asked to present the paper of another participant in the workshop group. Faculty members will read and provide comments on all the papers in the workshop group. This format will encourage students to carefully and respectfully read and present their colleagues’ work in a friendly environment. 

Calls for expressions of interest in the workshop are usually sent out in November of each year. For those wishing to submit work, expressions of interest should be accompanied by a working title and abstract of the piece you’re hoping to submit. Work will be selected based on these abstracts. For graduate students who have their work selected, the full papers are usually required by the end of January. This workshop is traditionally held in February. It includes a virtual social event in the evening and then a day-long workshop the following day.

Please contact envlawjournal@uvic.ca for more information or to submit expressions of interest and/or written work for the workshop.