Join us for the 10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor from July 9-11, 2025. This conference brings together legal scholars, educators, and practitioners to explore the theory and practice of applied legal storytelling. Share your insights and experiences through panels, workshops, and paper presentations.

The Call for Proposals is now available.

PRESENTATION FORMATS

We encourage creativity in presentation formats! And, like previous AppLS conferences, this conference will be collegial, inclusive, and supportive of your work. The conference will include 45-minute and 25-minute time slots. For the 45-minute time slots, we welcome interactive, panel (3-5 panelists), or roundtable (discussion-based) presentation proposals, as well as other format types. For the 25-minute time slots, we envision presenters adopting something like the 14-to-18-minute TED-style format of rehearsed presentations that center on one idea conveyed through narrative, with reserved time for audience questions. The conference will also include poster presentations where participants can showcase their ideas with a poster, slides, or through other multimedia. On the proposal form, please indicate either a preference for a particular format or your willingness that we accept your proposal in any of the formats and time constraints.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

We welcome and encourage presentation proposals from faculty, lawmakers, and practitioners engaged in a variety of disciplines and from schools and organizations around the world. On the proposal form, we ask for a short description of fewer than 50 words (hard limit) for use in the conference program and a narrative description of your proposal for selection purposes (500 words maximum).

Link to submit proposal

DEADLINES

To allow greater flexibility for those interested in submitting a proposal, the Program Committee has established two submission deadlines:

The Priority Deadline for submissions was December 13, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The Program Committee will review all proposals received by this date by mid-January.

The Committee will also consider proposals submitted by the Extended Deadline, February 7, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and will review these proposals by the first week of March.

CONFERENCE STRUCTURE

The Program Committee will review the proposals and respond according to the submission date. Those who submitted proposals by the Priority Deadline (Dec. 13) will be notified by mid-February if their proposal has been accepted. Those who submitted their proposal by the Extended Deadline (Feb. 7), will be notified by late-March.

SELECTION PROCESS

All selected presenters will be expected to present in person. Additionally, presenters will be required to pay the conference registration fee and cover their own costs for travel and accommodations. The 2025 conference will begin with a reception in the late afternoon of July 9, 2025, and there may be one or two sets of presentations beforehand. The next two days, July 10-11, 2025, will be devoted to a plenary session and presentations given in concurrent sessions.

LODGING

We have reserved blocks of hotel rooms close to the law school:

The Graduate Hotel (0.5 miles)

615 E Huron Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 USA

The Graduate Hotel Booking Link

The Bell Tower Hotel (0.4 miles)

300 S. Thayer Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

The Bell Tower Hotel Booking Link

The Hyatt Ann Arbor (2.3 miles)

3223 S. State Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108

The Hyatt Ann Arbor Booking Link

Free Hotel Shuttle Available

REGISTRATION

We will send out registration information early in 2025. We expect the conference registration fee to come in around $450 (this cost covers lunches, a dinner, and administrative costs associated with hosting a conference).

QUESTIONS

If you have questions, please feel free to contact any member of the conference planning committee:

Aysha Ames, Fordham Law School 

Ted Becker, The University of Michigan Law School 

Jessica Lefort, The University of Michigan Law School 

Beth Wilensky, The University of Michigan Law School 

Gopal Balachandran, Penn State Law 

Sha-Shana Crichton, Howard University School of Law 

D’lorah Hughes, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law 

Anne Ralph, Moritz College of Law - The Ohio State University 

Ruth Anne Robbins, Rutgers Law School 

Nantiya Ruan, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law 

Bryan Schwartz, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law - Arizona State University 

Cecilia Silver, Yale Law School 

Paige Snelgro, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver 

Kristen Tiscione, Georgetown Law School