SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE AGENDA

programme

  • 08:30 -19:00 Lobby near rooms Zeta 1 / Zeta 2
  • Registration & Hospitality Desk

  • 09:00-12:00
  • 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
  • Lunch

  • 12:30-15:30
  • 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
  • Coffee & Tea

  • 15:45-18:45
  • 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
  • The ESIL 20th Anniversary Celebration with Prof. Rimvydas Petrauskas, the rector of Vilnius University

  • 08:00-19:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Registration & Hospitality Desk

  • 09:00-09:30 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 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 room 

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

  • 10:40-11:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Coffee & Tea Break Sponsored by Glimstedt

  • 11:00-12:30 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 11:00-12:30 BETA ROOM
  • 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
  • 12:30-13:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Lunch

  • 13:30-15:00 ALFA ROOM
  • 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

     

  • 13:30-15:00 BETA ROOM
  • 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  
  • 13:30-15:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
  • 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
  • 13:30-15:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
  • 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
  • 15:00-15:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Coffee & Tea

  • 15:30-17:00 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 15:30-17:00 BETA ROOM
  • 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
  • 15:30-17:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
  • 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
  • 15:30-17:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
  • 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
  • 17:00-17:15 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Coffee & Tea

  • 17:00-18:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
  • New Members Meeting with the ESIL Board

  • 17:00-18:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
  • Closed Business Meeting for Publishers and Editors

  • 17:00-18:00 BETA ROOM
  • ESIL Mentoring Event

  • 18:00-19:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
  • Meet the Editors and Publishers!

  • 18:00-19:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
  • Meeting of Interest Group Conveners and ESIL Board Members

  • 19:00-21:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Welcome Reception with Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, deputy minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania

  • 08:30-18:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Registration & Hospitality Desk

  • 09:00-10:30 BETA ROOM
  • 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
  • 09:00-10:30 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 10:30-11:00 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Coffee & Tea

  • 11:00-12:30 BETA ROOM
  • 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
  • 11:00-12:30 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 12:30-13:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Lunch

  • 13:30-15:00 ALFA ROOM
  • 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
  • 13:30-15:00 BETA ROOM
  • 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
  • 13:30-15:00 ZETA 1 ROOM
  • 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
  • 13:30-15:00 ZETA 2 ROOM
  • 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
  • 15:00-15:30 Lobby of the Conference Center
  • Coffee & Tea sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

  • 15:30-17:00 ALFA ROOM
  • General Assembly (with elections)

  • 17:00-18:00 ALFA ROOM
  • Closing Discussion with Jörg Polakiewicz, Council of Europe and the Presentation of Berlin’s Conference

  • 19:00-23:00 DUKE'S PALACE
  • Conference Dinner & ESIL Awards

    Conference dinner and closing sponsored by TGS Baltic