WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 2022
Venue: University of Glasgow,
Main Campus School of Law, Stair Building, 5-10 Professor Square
Pre-conference events
Interest Groups events
ESIL Board meeting
THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2022
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Building, Senate/Melville/Turnbull Suite
08:00 Registration (Turnbull Room)
09:00-11:00 Opening session and Keynote (Senate Room)
Professor Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia:
“No Exit at Nuremberg: the Post-War Order as Stage for 21st-Century Global Insecurity”
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel #1 Cyber-Security and the Digital Battlefield (Senate Room)
Chair: Jacques Hartmann (Dundee)
Discussant: Irène Couzigou (Aberdeen)
- Aude Géry – Can International Law Save Cyberspace? Analyzing State Practice Towards International Law in the Field of ICTs in the Context of International Security
- María Vásquez Callo-Müller and Iryna Bogdanova – Unilateral Cyber Sanctions and Global Cybersecurity Law-Making
- Roland Klein – Regulating the Spread of Global ‘Intelligentization’ – International Export Control Law as Arbiter Between the Benefits and Risks to International Peace and Security Posed by the Proliferation of Dual-Use AI
Panel #2 The UN as a Security Actor: Promise and Perils (Melville Room)
Chair: Daniel Erasmus-Khan (Munich)
Discussant: Therese O’Donnell (Strathclyde)
- Klaudia Klonowska – The UN Security Council Law-Making and Its Impact on the (Inter-)National Watchlisting Practices
- Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi – All About Forms: Global Security Governance and International Law
- Sofie-Marie Terrey and Ansgar Münichsdorfer – Humanitarian Exemptions: An Illusive Progress in Safeguarding Humanitarian Assistance in the International Counterterrorism Architecture?
- Ash Murphy – Climate Security: The Promise and Peril of Climate Change Before the UN Security Council
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel #3 Security and Human Rights: Tensions and Frictions (Senate Room)
Chair: Christina Binder (Munich)
Discussant: Rebecca Sutton (Glasgow)
- Andrej Lang – The Ambivalence of Non-Judicial Adjudication in International Law: A case-study of the Ombudsperson to the ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions regime
- Victoria Kerr and James Patrick Sexton – Human Rights and Security: Unpacking the Elusive Nature of Magnitsky Sanctions
- Philip Burton and Kathryn Allinson – Securitisation and Protection: The Origin Story of International Refugee Law
Panel #4 Historical and Current Challenges to Economic Security (Melville Room)
Chair: Evelyne Schmid (Lausanne)
Discussant: Filippo Fontanelli (Edinburgh)
- Astrid Iversen – Sustainable Debt Restructuring: Possibilities and Challenges Under International Law
- Agata Daszko – In a World Full of Civilians, be a Foreign Investor: Compensation Post-Conflict
- G.C. McBain – Debt and Civilisation: Intervention and Economic Security in Victorian International Law
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:45 Special Session: Engagement and Mentoring: A Conversation with Early Career Researchers (Senate Room)
Informal discussion, convened by Neha Jain, Gleider Hernández, Pierre d’Argent, Evelyne Schmid, Silvia Steininger, Gail Lythgoe and Jessica Schechinger
18:00 – Drinks Reception in the Hunterian Museum
19:30 – Evening Conference Dinner – Glasgow University Union
FRIDAY 1 APRIL 2022
09:00-10:30 Rapid Response Panel: The Aggression against Ukraine – What Role for International Law? (Senate Room)
With Mykola Gnatovsky, Lauri Mälksoo and Daria Shapovalova, convened by Saskia Millmann and Christian J. Tams
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel #5 Traditional Security Concerns in New Guise (Senate Room)
Chair: James Devaney (Glasgow)
Discussant: Federica Paddeu (Cambridge)
- Agnese Vitale – Recognition of Governments between Legality, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness. Global Security Implications in Light of Recent Practice
- Weihang Zhou – State Responsibility and Global Security: Did the International Law Commission Get It Wrong
- Martin Svec – The Role and Relevance of Public International Law in Global Security Discourse: Planetary Defense in the Context of International Law
Panel #6 Maritime and Water Security (Melville Room)
Chair: Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford)
Discussant: Seline Trevisanut (Utrecht)
- Andrea Longo – Fish-Food for Thought: Rethinking the Paradigm of IUU Fishing through the Human Rights Lens
- Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo – Reconciling Divergent Interests in the Context of Maritime Security: The Role of the Duty of Due Regard in the Law of the Sea
- Millicent McCreath and Valentin Schatz – EEZ-adjacent Distant Water Fishing as a Global Security Challenge: An International Law Perspective
- Petr Stejskal – The Role of International Water Law in Global Security Discourse
12:30-13:30 Concluding Session (Senate Room)
Roundtable – Global Security: Regulating an Illusion?
Concluding reflections, with Anni Pues, Mavluda Sattorova and Jean d‘Aspremont, moderated by Robin Geiss.
Conclusions (ESIL and local organisers)
13:30- 14:30 Lunch
15:00- Research Forum finishes