AGENDA.
Thursday, 14 October 2021
08:30-09:30
REGISTRATION
09:30-10:00
WELCOME AND OPENING
Michael Lysander Fremuth
University of Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
Brigitta Zöchling-Jud
Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Vienna
Alma Zadić
Austrian Federal Minister of Justice
10:00-10:45
KEYNOTE
'...it is the duty of every State...'
William Schabas
Middlesex University London
10:45-11:15
COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
PANEL I - The Interlink between Human Rights and International Criminal Law
Chair: Christina Binder, Bundeswehr University Munich
Approaching International Criminal Law through the Lens of Human Rights
Michael Lysander Fremuth
University of Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
Cumulative Prosecution – Combining Charges of Counterterrorism and International Crimes:
Remarks from a National Prosecutor’s Point of View
Christian Ritscher
Federal Prosecutor's Office of the German Federal Court of Justice
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:15
PANEL II - The Role of Culture in International Criminal Proceedings
Chair: Miloš Vec, University of Vienna
Culture, Rights and Crimes: The Legacy and Potential of International Criminal Law
Joseph Powderly
Leiden University
ICC and the Construction of Evidence – A Cultural Perspective
Adina-Loredana Nistor
University of Groningen
15:15-15:45
COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:30
PANEL III - Re-examining the Principles of International Criminal Law
Chair: Konrad Bühler, Austrian Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs
The National Prosecution of International Crimes and the (International) Public
Stefanie Bock
Philipps University Marburg
The Complementary Test of the International Criminal Court between Self-Referrals and Contesting States
Astrid Reisinger Coracini
University of Vienna
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice
Máximo Langer
University of California
17:30
END OF CONFERENCE DAY I
Friday, 15 October 2021
09:00-10:15
PANEL IV - Challenges and Opportunities for the Prosecution of Core International Criminal Cases at the Domestic and International Level: Practitioners' Perspectives
Chair: Ingeborg Zerbes, University of Vienna
EU national jurisdictions in the front line of fighting impunity – perspectives of the Genocide Network
Matevž Pezdirc
Genocide Network Secretariat, European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation
Collection and Evaluation of Evidence in a Blended Common Law - Civil Law Legal System
Cuno Tarfusser
Former Vice-President of the International Criminal Court
10:15-10:45
COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:00
PANEL V - Immunities in International Criminal Law
Chair: Ingrid Mitgutsch, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Entering a New Era of Head of State Immunity: Surveying Potential Paths and their Pitfalls
Donald Riznik
Bundeswehr University Munich
Maximizing the Exercise of Jurisdiction against the Backdrop of Immunity
Nicolas Angelet and Anna Facchinetti
Université Libre de Bruxelles and University of Pavia
12:00-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:30-14:45
PANEL VI - The Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence as Part of Core International Crimes
Chair: Moritz Birk, Amnesty International Austria
Progress and Challenges of Obtaining Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Syria and Iraq in Universal Jurisdiction Cases
Stephanie Barbour
Commission for International Justice and Accountability
Access to Justice for Victims of Male-Directed CRSV before Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace
Jelia Sane
All Survivors Project
14:45-15:15
COFFEE BREAK
15:15-17:00
PANEL VII - The Use of Open Source Evidence in International Criminal Proceedings before Domestic Courts
Chair: Konstantina Stavrou, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
Taking Stock: How Digital Technologies Are Changing International Justice
Federica D'Alessandra
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
40 years' Worth of Footage from Syria Alone: Global Documentation Requires Commensurate Global Justice
Jeff Deutch
Syrian Archive
Open Source Evidence and the Domestic Prosecution of International Crimes
Yvonne McDermott Rees
Swansea University
17:00
END OF CONFERENCE DAY II
Saturday, 16 October 2021
09:00-09:45
KEYNOTE
Transnational Corporations and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Kai Ambos
Georg-August-University Göttingen
09:45-11:00
PANEL VIII - International Criminal Law in Domestic Proceedings
Chair: Andreas Müller, University of Innsbruck
Application of International Criminal Law by Domestic Courts: Some Recent Examples
Harmen van der Wilt
University of Amsterdam
The Use of the ICTY Adjudicated Facts in War Crimes Trials Before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jasenka Ferizović
Independent Researcher
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00
PANEL IX - International Criminal Law and Corresponding State Practice
Chair: Andrea Lehner, University of Vienna
Approaches to Returning Foreign Fighters in the EU and the Western Balkans
Daniela Pisoiu
Austrian Institute for International Affairs
Developments International Criminal Prosecutions in Austria
Christine Gödl
Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice
13:00
CONFERENCE END