After a 10-year hiatus CAUT revived its legal conference in Ottawa earlier this year for an audience of almost 40 labour lawyers, faculty association staff lawyers and grievance officers.

Organized to address legal issues facing academics today, The Ambit of the Collective Agreement focussed on the the significance and application of the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Weber v. Ontario Hydro. The lineup of speakers included well-known arbitrators Kenneth Swan, Stephen Kelleher and Morton Mitchnick (labour arbitrator who initially heard the Weber case).