The Programme

The Annual Course on International Law Librarianship is the Association's main meeting and educational event of the year. The theme of the conference is Canada: The Cultural Mosaic and International Law. Topics will reflect Canada’s unique perspectives on international and domestic issues. Speakers at the sessions include top Canadian legal academics, scholars, legal practitioners and law librarians.

Preliminary Programme

Optional Day

The educational focus of the optional day session will be on Foreign Investments and International Trade Law. The event will be held at the Niagara College. A short trip to the Niagara Region will give participants the opportunity to see Southern Ontario’s Fall colours. Additionally, the day will provide a winery tour and the choice of either visiting Niagara Falls or a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake, a beautiful historic town full of interesting architecture, art galleries or shopping.

Registration

Registration Form

Important deadlines

• Early Bird Registration begins: 19 March 2012
• Early Bird Registration Deadline: 24 August 2012
• Registration Closes: 17 September 2012

Social Events

The opening reception will take place at the historical home of Ontario’s Law Society of Upper Canada and the Law Society’s Great Library.

Monday evening’s dinner, generously hosted by Kluwer Law International will take place at the CN Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the world with spectacular views of Lake Ontario and the Toronto skyline. The Annual Dinner will be held at the lovely Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Public Libraries, a vibrant new literary and cultural commons at the heart of the city.

Travel

The Lester B. Pearson International Airport is a 45 minute drive from Downtown Toronto. The airport is serviced by major airlines. There are taxis, limousines and coaches for travel from the airport to Downtown Toronto hotels. In some instances, hotels provide airport shuttle, participants are advised to make advance arrangements with the hotels.

Airport Express Bus (Picks up and drops off at the Sheraton Centre every 30 minutes, 24-hours): CAD19.95 one way, CAD32.95 two trips.

Taxi: CAD45.00 one way (approximately)

Limousine: CAD55.00 one way (approximately)

Visa information is available here - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

Sponsors

The IALL Board and membership would like to thank the sponsors for their generous support in making this meeting possible. A complete list of the sponsors is available here.

Venue

The conference will be held in one of the campuses of the University of Toronto –The Chestnut Conference Centre, located in the heart of downtown Toronto and within short walking distance of the conference hotels.

On Wednesday the conference session will be held at York University’s newly renovated Osgoode Hall Law School. Short tours of the renovated building will be available for all participants.

Location

This is the first time the conference is being held in Toronto. Toronto is Canada’s largest city and one of the most multicultural in the world. “Nearly all of the world's culture groups are represented in Toronto and more than 100 languages and dialects are spoken”.

Read more here: http://www.toronto.ca/about_toronto/index.htm

Osgoode Hall Law School and Faculty of Law, University of Toronto are the leading law schools in Canada. Librarians at the Bora Laskin Law Library and the Osgoode Hall Law School Library are working collaboratively to host the 2012 IALL conference.

Accommodation

Special discount room rates have been negotiated by the Local Organizing Committee at the following hotels. All hotels are within easy walking distance of the conference centre, the opening reception and the annual dinner locations.

1. Sheraton Downtown Toronto
   Standard guestroom (single/double occupancies): only CAD195 per night
2. Metropolitan Hotel
   Standard guestroom (single/double occupancies): only CAD159 per night
3. The Rex Hotel
   Standard room: only CAD110 per night

Additional hotel and booking details are available here. See pdf map here.

Links

Tourism Toronto - http://www.seetorontonow.com/

The top 20 novels set in Toronto - http://www.blogto.com/books_lit/2011/08/the_top_20_novels_set_in_toronto/

Bibliography of Toronto History, published since 1990 - http://www.toronto.ca/culture/brochures/Toronto_bibliography_2007.pdf

Canadian Legal History blog - by the Osgoode Society - http://osgoodesocietycanadianlegalhistory.blogspot.com.au/