programme
- 08:30 -19:00 Lobby near rooms Zeta 1 / Zeta 2
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Registration & Hospitality Desk
- 09:00-12:00
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ESIL Interest Group Pre-conference Workshops
- Interest Group on International Organizations (Omega room)
- Interest Group on the Law of the Sea (Zeta 2 room)
- Interest Group on Feminism and International Law (Iota room)
- Interest Group on International Human Rights Law (Theta room)
- Interest Group on the International Law of Culture (Tau room)
- Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals (Zeta 1 room)
See the ESIL website for more information on the workshops and their programmes.
- 12:00-13:00 Lobby near rooms Zeta 1 / Zeta 2
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Lunch
- 12:30-15:30
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ESIL Interest Group Pre-conference Workshops
- Interest Group on Rule of Law & Interest Group on International Environmental Law (Zeta 1 room)
- Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law (Omega room)
- Interest Group on Energy and International Law (Tau room)
- Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law (Iota room)
- Interest Group on International Economic Law (Zeta 2 room)
- Interest Group on International Law and Technology (Theta room)
See the ESIL website for more information on the workshops and their programmes.
- 15:30-15:45 Lobby near rooms Zeta 1 / Zeta 2
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Coffee & Tea
- 15:45-18:45
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ESIL Interest Group Pre-conference Workshops
- Interest Group on Rule of Law & Interest Group on International Environmental Law (Zeta 1 room)
- Interest Group on Business and Human Rights (Iota room)
- Interest Group on “The EU as a Global Actor” (Omega room)
- Interest Group on Peace and Security (Theta room)
- Interest Group on History of International Law (Tau room)
- Interest Group on International Criminal Justice (Zeta 2 room)
See the ESIL website for more information on the workshops and their programmes.
- 19:30-21:00 Vilnius University, Auditorium Aula Parva
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The ESIL 20th Anniversary Celebration with Prof. Rimvydas Petrauskas, the rector of Vilnius University
- 08:00-19:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Registration & Hospitality Desk
- 09:00-09:30 ALFA ROOM
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Welcome and Introduction
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
- 09:30-10:40 ALFA ROOM
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Keynote and Opening discussion "Technology and Regulatory Regionalism: Europe as Centre or Periphery?"
KEYNOTE: Simon Chesterman @National University of Singapore
The Tragedy of AI Governance
Alfa roomChair: Jekaterina Govina @Vilnius Tech University
Discussant: Roxana Vatanparast @Capital University Law School
- 10:40-11:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Coffee & Tea Break Sponsored by Glimstedt
- 11:00-12:30 ALFA ROOM
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FORUM 1.
Race as Technology / Technologies of Racialisation in International Law
Alfa roomChair: 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
- Essentialism in International Law and Technology
- 11:00-12:30 BETA ROOM
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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
- The Challenge of Justifying, Interpreting and Applying Digital Rights as Human Rights
- 12:30-13:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Lunch
- 13:30-15:00 ALFA ROOM
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AGORA 1.
International Markets, Money and Labor in Times of Technological Change
Alfa roomChair: 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
- Recoding Values: Cryptostatecraft and Experiments in Future Governance
- 13:30-15:00 BETA ROOM
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AGORA 2.
Digital Platforms and the Public Sphere – International Law and Democratic Disruption
Beta roomChair: 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
- Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Disinformation in International Law
- 13:30-15:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
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AGORA 3.
International Law, Technology and the Posthuman / More-than-human
Zeta 1 roomChair: 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
- The More-Than-Human Data Shadow: Posthuman International Law, Postwar Data History and Artificial Intelligence
- 13:30-15:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
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AGORA 4.
Technologies of Security and Surveillance
Zeta 2 roomChair: 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
- EU Sanctions as Surveillance? A Socio-legal Study of Norwegian Hobby Drone Prosecutions 2022-2024
- 15:00-15:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Coffee & Tea
- 15:30-17:00 ALFA ROOM
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AGORA 5.
Forensic Activism – New Technologies in Human Rights, Migration and Criminal Justice
Alfa roomChair: 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
- Documenting Human Rights Atrocities for Eternity? – On the Contingency for a Joint Comprehensive Archives for Prosecuting International Crimes
- 15:30-17:00 BETA ROOM
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AGORA 6.
Environment, Ecological Disasters and Technology in International Legal Context
Beta roomChair: 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
- AI Predictive Modelling and Digital Twins: Tools to Transform the International Forest Regime?
- 15:30-17:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
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AGORA 7.
Oceans / Outer Space – Sensing, Constructing, Commodifying Global Commons
Zeta 1 roomChair: 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
- Sovereignty Implications of Mega-Constellations in the Low Earth Orbit
- 15:30-17:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
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AGORA 8.
Critical and Historical Perspectives on International Law’s Turn to Technology
ZETA 2 roomChair: 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
- The Allure of Possibility: Technological Solutionism and International Law
- 17:00-17:15 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Coffee & Tea
- 17:00-18:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
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New Members Meeting with the ESIL Board
- 17:00-18:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
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Closed Business Meeting for Publishers and Editors
- 17:00-18:00 BETA ROOM
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ESIL Mentoring Event
- 18:00-19:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
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Meet the Editors and Publishers!
- 18:00-19:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
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Meeting of Interest Group Conveners and ESIL Board Members
- 19:00-21:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Welcome Reception with Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, deputy minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania
- 08:30-18:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Registration & Hospitality Desk
- 09:00-10:30 BETA ROOM
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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
- Adaptive Governance and the Path towards Responsible AI in Courts
- 09:00-10:30 ALFA ROOM
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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
- Ensuring a Degree of Accountability in the Context of Digital Warfare through UN Human Rights Mechanisms
- 10:30-11:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Coffee & Tea
- 11:00-12:30 BETA ROOM
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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
- Searching for International Law at the Security Council: Fact-Making in the Digital Age
- 11:00-12:30 ALFA ROOM
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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
- Immunities of State Officials and International Crimes
- 12:30-13:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Lunch
- 13:30-15:00 ALFA ROOM
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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
- Facial Recognition Technology in Russia’s War Against Ukraine: from Awareness Raising to Evidence before the Courts
- 13:30-15:00 BETA ROOM
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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
- Satellite Images as Evidence before the International Court of Justice
- 13:30-15:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
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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
- ‘Smart Treaties’: The Promise and Limits of Technology for International Law Making and Enforcement
- 13:30-15:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
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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
- Is Human Rights Law Capable of Protecting Against the Chilling Effects of Surveillance?
- 15:00-15:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
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Coffee & Tea sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- 15:30-17:00 ALFA ROOM
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General Assembly (with elections)
- 17:00-18:00 ALFA ROOM
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Closing Discussion with Jörg Polakiewicz, Council of Europe and the Presentation of Berlin’s Conference
- 19:00-23:00 DUKE'S PALACE
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Conference Dinner & ESIL Awards
Conference dinner and closing sponsored by TGS Baltic