Gleider Hernández, the President of ESIL @Catholic University of Leuven University
Inga Černiuk, Chancellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
Haroldas Šinkūnas, the Dean of the Law faculty of Vilnius University

KEYNOTE: Simon Chesterman @National University of Singapore
The Tragedy of AI Governance
Alfa room 

Chair: Jekaterina Govina @Vilnius Tech University
Discussant: Roxana Vatanparast @Capital University Law School

FORUM 1.
Race as Technology / Technologies of Racialisation in International Law
Alfa room 

Chair:  Kebene Wodajo @ETH Zurich

• Essentialism in International Law and Technology
  Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi @SciencesPo
• Borders as Technologies of Racial Production and Racial Technologies of Bordering 
  Amin Parsa @Halmstad University
• Implementing a Digital Rule of Law. Epistemic Reflections on Development Practice
  Siddharth Peter de Souza @Tilburg University

FORUM 2.
Do We Need a New Theory of (Human) Rights Adapted to Governance by Data?
Beta room

Chair: Veronika Bilkova @the Institute of International Relations

• The Challenge of Justifying, Interpreting and Applying Digital Rights as Human Rights
  Yuval Shany @Hebrew/KCL
• Introducing the Non-coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
  Mart Susi @Tallinn University 
• Anticipatory Human Rights Obligations and Data Governance
  Rumiana Yotova @Cambridge University

AGORA 1.
International Markets, Money and Labor in Times of Technological Change
Alfa room 

Chair: John Haskell @University of Manchester

• Recoding Values: Cryptostatecraft and Experiments in Future Governance
  Andrea Leiter @University of Amsterdam 
• Regulatory Interoperability In The Global Digital Economy: Charting Pathways In International Law
  Neha Mishra @Geneva Graduate Institute
• Evaluating the Future of Crypto Assets under WTO Law: a Case Study of the EU’s MiCA Regulation
  Ines Willemyns @Stanford University

AGORA 2.
Digital Platforms and the Public Sphere – International Law and Democratic Disruption
Beta room 

Chair: Stefania Di Stefano @IHEID

• Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Disinformation in International Law
  Anna Maria Smulders @Leiden University
• Between a Rock And a Hard Place: the EU’s Digital Services Act and its Implications for Freedom 0f Expression
  Karen De Vos @KU Leuven
• Content Governance Beyond Platforms: The Power and Human Rights Obligations of Infrastructural Service Providers 
  Erik Tuchtfeld @Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law  
  

AGORA 3.
International Law, Technology and the Posthuman / More-than-human
Zeta 1 room

Chair:  Emily Jones @University of Essex

• The More-Than-Human Data Shadow: Posthuman International Law, Postwar Data History and Artificial Intelligence
  Matilda Arvidsson @Gothenburg University
• Ghost Fleets, Posthuman Feminisms, Deterrence and Maritime Security
  Gina Heathcote @University of Newcastle
• Beyond natural and (im)material. Interpreting the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture from Legal, Post-human, and Relational Perspectives
  Pierre Walckiers @UCLouvain

AGORA 4.
Technologies of Security and Surveillance
Zeta 2 room

Chair:  Delphine Dogot @Université Catholique de Lille

• EU Sanctions as Surveillance? A Socio-legal Study of Norwegian Hobby Drone Prosecutions 2022-2024
  Kristin Bergtora Sandvik @University of Oslo
• Workplace Brain Surveillance. The Need for a New Approach to Protect Mental Privacy and Neural Data?
  Nora Hertz@University of Freiburg
• Cyber Shields for Global Guardians: Protecting International Organizations from Cyber Harm
  Isabella E. Brunner @Leiden University

AGORA 5.
Forensic Activism – New Technologies in Human Rights, Migration and Criminal Justice
Alfa room

Chair: Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @Queen Mary University

• Documenting Human Rights Atrocities for Eternity? – On the Contingency for a Joint Comprehensive Archives for Prosecuting International Crimes
  Kaja Kowalczewska @University of Wrocław and Raphael Oidtmann @University of Mannheim
• The Rights and Wrongs of Mass Grave Mapping
  Ellie Smith and Melanie Klinkner@Bournemouth University
• Fairness, Probity and Digital Evidence: Establishing a Framework for Digital Forensic Experts
  Matthew Gillett @University of Essex

AGORA 6.
Environment, Ecological Disasters and Technology in International Legal Context
Beta room

Chair: Marie Petersmann @LSE

• AI Predictive Modelling and Digital Twins: Tools to Transform the International Forest Regime?
  Feja Lesniewska @University of Surrey
• The (Mis)Use of AI in Environmental Impact Assessments for Potential Exploitation of Deep-Sea Mineral Resources in the Area: The Need for Regulatory Recalibration
  Debolina Bhatt @IHEID
• At the Intersection of Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Rights Law: Towards a Solidarity-Based Approach
  Barrie Sander @Leiden University

AGORA 7.
Oceans / Outer Space – Sensing, Constructing, Commodifying Global Commons
Zeta 1 room

Chair: Lauri Mälksoo @Tartu University

• Sovereignty Implications of Mega-Constellations in the Low Earth Orbit
  Berna Akcali Gur @Queen Mary University and Joanna Kulesza @University of Lodz
• Legal Privileges and Empirical Dangers of Research in the Global Commons
  Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark @Åbo Akademi University
• The De-Territorialization of the Land and the Territorialization of the Sea: a Study of the International Legal Implications arising from the “Technological Paradox”
  Daniele Mandrioli @University of Milan

AGORA 8.
Critical and Historical Perspectives on International Law’s Turn to Technology
ZETA 2 room

Chair:  Lora Izvorova @LSE

• The Allure of Possibility: Technological Solutionism and International Law
  Andreas Kulick @Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Testing the Power of Social Technology in the Face of Physical Technology
  Katalin Sulyok @Eötvös Loránd University
• A People-Centered Information Society? Internet Architecture and the Price of Technical Efficiency
  Nathan Ehrenfreund @McGill University

FORUM 3.
Dispute Resolution in Times of Technological Change

Chair: Edouard Fromageau @University of Aberdeen

• Adaptive Governance and the Path towards Responsible AI in Courts
  Malcolm Langford @Oslo University
• Ethical Challenges to the Use of Technology in Dispute Resolution
  Katia Fach Gómez @University of Zaragoza
• Telos and Judicial Precedents: Decision-Making in the Face of Modern Technologies
  Johanas Baltrimas @Vilnius University

FORUM 4.
Technologies of Warfare – International Peace and Security in a Digital Age

Chair: Christian J. Tams @University of Glasgow

• Ensuring a Degree of Accountability in the Context of Digital Warfare through UN Human Rights Mechanisms
  Gentian Zyberi @Oslo University
• The Use of New Technologies During Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine: International Legal Perspective
  Natalia Hendel @Geneva Academy
• International Legal Scholarship and the Problem of Cyberwar 
  Lianne JM Boer @VU Amsterdam

FORUM 5.
Rethinking International Law: Digital Sources, Subjects and Sovereigns

Chair: Tamar Megiddo @Tel Aviv University

• Searching for International Law at the Security Council: Fact-Making in the Digital Age
  Henning Lahmann @Leiden University
• Digital Sovereignty and Human Rights: Balancing Security and Freedom
  Tiina Pajuste @Tallinn University
• Regulating AI: Law, Data and Infrastructure
  Benedict Kingsbury @New York University

FORUM 6.
Accountability and Immunity in International Law

Chair: Gabija Grigaitė Daugirdė @Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania

• Immunities of State Officials and International Crimes
  Patrycja Grzebyk @University of Warsaw
• Reparations in International Law
  Photini Pazartzis @Tufts
• Enforcement of Compensation Awards of the European Court of Human Rights within the Council of Europe
  Veronika Fikfak @UCL

AGORA 9.
Digital Humanitarianism and Disaster Relief

Chair: Mykola Gnatovski @ECHR

• Facial Recognition Technology in Russia’s War Against Ukraine: from Awareness Raising to Evidence before the Courts
  Agnė Limantė @Lithuanian Law Institute
• Digital Technologies and the (Re)shaping of International Humanitarian Law
  Jonathan Hafetz @Seton Hall University
• Genetic Tracing, DNA Testing, and Forcibly Transferred Ukrainian Children
  Yulia Ioffe @UCL

AGORA 10.
New Technologies and the Legal Profession: Education, Litigation, Research, Activism

Chair: Vigita Vėbraitė @Vilnius University

• Satellite Images as Evidence before the International Court of Justice
  Anna Ventouratou @University of Sheffield and Eirini-Erasmia Fasia @Wageningen University
• AI in Legal Education: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities within the International Legal Landscape
  Noora Arajärvi @EUI
• Fait Accompli: Predicting the Outcomes of Investment Treaty Negotiations
  Runar Hilleren Lie @University of Oslo

AGORA 11.
When Renewal Repeats?  International Lawmaking in a Digital Era

Chair: Sarah Zarmsky @University of Essex

• ‘Smart Treaties’: The Promise and Limits of Technology for International Law Making and Enforcement
  Niccolò Ridi @King’s College London
• Between Entropy and Sovereignty: Emerging Infrastructures for Genetic Data Sharing
  Adam Strobeyko @Geneva Graduate Institute
• Power, Political Economy and the Problem of the Disregard: Future Proofing the UN’s Governance of Open-Source Software
  Jennifer Tridgell @University of Cambridge

AGORA 12.
Technology, Vulnerability and Human Rights Law 

Chair: Professor Thomas Streinz @New York University

• Is Human Rights Law Capable of Protecting Against the Chilling Effects of Surveillance?
  Daragh Murray @Queen Mary University London
• Confronting Digital Technologies: Addressing Vulnerabilities through an Infrastructural Approach to Human Rights
  Angelina Fisher @New York University
• Human Right Protection By Design?
  Victoria Guijarro Santos @University of Goettingen

Conference dinner and closing sponsored by TGS Baltic