Conferences

"Advocacy and Aging: From Storytelling to Systemic Change"

November 16-17, 2012
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hotel venue TBA

The conference pre-day for the World Study Group on Elder Law is to be held on November, 15, providing an opportunity for scholars in this area to present research updates and new work in this important field.

 World Study Group

The World Study Group offers Elder Law professors, practitioners and other professionals interested in law and aging issues, research and education, from around the world a chance to meet up with colleagues and exchange ideas on elder law research, issues and teaching.

To view the World Study Group agenda for 2010, click here. 

Conference Programme

Click here to view the 2010 CCEL conference prorgramme.

The 2012 program will be available June 2012.

Conference Location and Accommodations

The conference returns to beautiful downtown Vancouver for 2012.  The hotel venue will be announced shortly.

Sponsors & Exhibitors

The last conference, held in 2010 in Toronto, was co-organized with the Law Commission of Ontario and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly.

Past sponsors of the Canadian Conference on Elder Law have included Kobo,  the Community Legal Clinics of Ontario, Stetson University College of Law, the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, Eldercare Home Health Inc, Rapid Response by Revera Inc., the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the Canadian Association on Gerontology, Jan Goddard & Associates, Irene Borins Ash, the Law Commission of Ontario, Westminster Savings Credit Union, the Law Foundation of British Columbia, the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Whaley Estate Litigation, Hull and Hull LLP, Spry Hawkins Micner, the Ombudsman of British Columbia and the BC Network for Aging Research, Vancouver Coastal Health, Law Commission of Canada, BC Housing, FraserHealth, LexisNexis, McLellan Herbert,and Einfeld Watts.

If you are interested in learning more about sponsoring the conference, contact us at bcli@bcli.org.