08.04, Wednesday

18:00 – 20:00
Early Career drinks (social event, self paid)

09.04, Thursday

08:30 – 09:00
Registration (in the hall)
09:00 – 09:20
Official welcome (Aula)
Michał Kowalski on behalf of the Faculty authorities, Piotr Szwedo on behalf of the Organizing Committee, Christian Tams on behalf of ESIL
09:20 – 10:00
Keynote (Aula)
Petra Minnerop

10:00 – 11:30

Panel 1 (Aula) | In search for new instruments: transdisciplinarity and novel approaches
Chair
Gleider Hernández
Panelist 1
Eirini Fasia (University of Wageningen, the Netherlands)
Interdisciplinarity and Extrovertism in International Environmental Law: A Case Study on the Law of the sea
Panelist 2
Julián Eduardo Suárez (University College Cork, Ireland)
Legal personhood of nature in the Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR): Implications, challenges, and avenues of possibility
Panelist 3
Eloisa Maria Benedicta Bellucci, Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento (Italy)
Instruments for Sustainability: The Role of Private International Law in Addressing Environmental Torts in Antarctica
Discussant
Piotr Szwedo
Panel 2 (room 52) | Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Chair
Ana Salinas
Panelist 1
Maciej Grześkowiak (European University Institute, Italy)
The Gap Between Temporary Refuge and Asylum: How the International Refugee Law Perpetuates Emergencies
Panelist 2
Anna Lyfar (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Smoothing the Road of Pitfalls: Reducing Power Imbalances in POW Exchange Negotiations
Panelist 3
Filomena Medea Tulli (University of Trento, Italy)
The Sustainability of the International Legal Order through the Lens of Forced Labour: Fragmentation, Resilience, and the Transformation of State Responsibility
Discussant
Pierre-François Laval
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break (in the hall)

12:00 – 13:30

Panel 3 (Aula) | Scope and evolution of state obligations
Chair
Christian Tams
Panelist 1
Agata Bidas, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Intergenerational responsibility for nuclear test legacies: reconceptualizing state obligations in international law
Panelist 2
Fabian Eichberger, University of Cambridge / University of Mainz (United Kingdom / Germany)
State-Owned Enterprises and the Climate Mitigation Obligations of States
Panelist 3
Mario Paquale Amoroso, University of Trento (Italy)
Warfare in the Anthropocene: Reconciling the stability of the laws of armed conflict with the transformative imperatives of climate change law
Discussant
Patrycja Grzebyk
Panel 4 (room 52) | Finances and Corporations
Chair
Edouard Fromageau
Panelist 1
Helin Laufer (University of Cambridge, UK)
The sustainability of international investment law through the applicability of international investment agreements in times of armed conflict
Panelist 2
Cyril de Martel (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
From influence to right? Corporate participation and the sustainability of international law
Panelist 3
Ali Farahzadi (Tehran University, Iran), Nahal Keshavarzi (co-author), Ghazal Keshavarzi (co-author)
Sustainable International Law and Transition Finance: How Legal 'Integrity' Lowers the Cost of Capital for West Asian Hydrocarbon Exporters
Discussant
Łukasz Gruszczyński
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch break (in the hall)
14:00 – 15:00
A panel discussion on “How to transition from the PhD to the Post-Doc” (room 52)

15:00 – 16:30

Panel 5 (Aula) | Tools for accountability in climate law
Chair
Nicolas Haupais
Panelist 1
Isabela Soares Bicalho, University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Process-oriented result obligations in climate law: Rethinking stability and change after the ICJ advisory opinion
Panelist 2
Manasa Sainidhi Venkatachalam, MSV Consultancy NL (the Netherlands)
Translating the ICJ Climate Change Advisory opinion: Using the tort of negligence to design litigation strategy for domestic and transnational corporate accountability
Panelist 3
Vrithav Vishnuchittan, Krishna Vijay Palepu, Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (India)
Liability Pooling as a Novel way to Streamline the Process of Holding Climate Change Perpetrators Liable
Discussant
Otto Spijkers
Panel 6 (room 52) | Global Commons
Chair
Roman Kwiecień
Panelist 1
Jana Ruwayha (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Sustainable International Law and the Architecture of Resilience: Navigating Stability and Change in Crisis Governance
Panelist 2
Patricie Startlová (Charles University, Prague)
Sustainability of International Law: How can International Law maintain stability, coherence, and legitimacy in a domain as fluid and volatile as Cyberspace?
Panelist 3
Mario Nocerino (University of Naples, Italy)
Sustainability at the Edge of Space: Mega-Constellations, De Facto Appropriation and the Orbital Commons
Discussant
Paolo David Farah
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break (in the hall)

17:00 – 18:30

Panel 7 (Aula) | Sustainability through finance and investment
Chair
Daniel Peat
Panelist 1
Zhang Qian, Zhejiang University (China)
From Capital to Capabilities: Rethinking the Right to Development in International Investment Law
Panelist 2
Sophie Hölscher, European University Institute (Italy)
Constructive ambiguity or codified disagreement: Common but differentiated responsibilities in climate finance and loss and damage funding
Panelist 3
Débora de Sousa Almeida, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Socio-Ecological Dignity and Sustainable Taxation: The Manaus Free Trade Zone as a Global South Paradigm for International Law
Discussant
Christina Binder
Panel 8 (room 52) | Between Rule-making and Judicial Enforcement
Chair
Patryk Labuda
Panelist 1
Ayako Hatano (University of Oxford, UK)
Internationalising International Law in the Regulation of Hate Speech on Digital Platforms: Between Stability and Change
Panelist 2
Dobroslawa Budzianowska (Wroclaw University, Poland)
Jurisprudential Boundaries of Innovation: Sustainability and the Coherence of International Law
Panelist 3
Aleksandra Nail (European University Institute, Italy)
Preserving the sustainability of international judicial proceedings: addressing state non-cooperation in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights
Discussant
Rita Guerreiro Teixeira
19:30 – 21:00
Dinner for speakers

10.04, Friday

09:00 – 10:30

Panel 9 (Aula) | Fairness and inclusivity. Social issues in international law
Chair
Silvia Steininger
Panelist 1
Judith Kärn, Speyer University (Germany)
International law as a promoter of energy justice?
Panelist 2
Jiawen Wang, King's College London (United Kingdom)
Reinterpreting Fair and Equitable Treatment: A Gender-Responsive Approach to the Sustainability of International Investment Law
Panelist 3
Maria Belén Gracia, Maastricht University (the Netherlands)
Rethinking Sustainability in International Law through an Inclusivity Lens. The case of the Plastics Treaty
Discussant
Dorothee Cambou
Panel 10 (room 52) | Climate and environment
Chair
Veronika Fikfak
Panelist 1
Yang Huiwen (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Rethinking Sovereign Equality in International Law: Legitimacy, Fairness, and Democracy in the Climate Era
Panelist 2
Paulo Henrique Reis de Oliveira (University of Sao Paulo, Brasilia)
Navigating Turbulent Seas: Transformations in Ocean Governance and the Interpretation of International Law of the Sea
Panelist 3
Rasmika Ghosh (National University of Singapore)
The Politics of Fragmentation and the Sustainability of International Law: Lessons from Critical Minerals Governance
Discussant
Konrad Marciniak
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break (in the hall)

11:00 – 12:30

Panel 11 (Aula) | Sustainable business practices
Chair
Machiko Kanetake
Panelist 1
Valeria Casillo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
(Halfaway) decent work: human rights discourse for a socially sustainable work?
Panelist 2
Giacomo Bruno, The Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland)
Whose sustainability in the business and human rights regime? From standard-setting to economic democracy
Panelist 3
Xuan Shao, University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
A New Bargain in International Investment Law? Home States’ Sustainability Obligations in the Era of Green Industrial Policy Competition
Discussant
Joanna Gomuła
Panel 12 (room 52) | Institutions
Chair
Giulio Bartolini
Panelist 1
Christina Iannelli (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
Museums as Soft Power: Repatriation, Sovereignty, and the Sustainability of International Law
Panelist 2
Madara Melnika (European University, Italy)
Secret Sustainability via Security: Insights into the Possibilities of International Organisations
Panelist 3
Ula Aleksandra Kos (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Pathways to Resilience: A Need for Nuance within Pushback-Backlash Dichotomy in ECtHR Compliance Studies
Discussant
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska
12:30 – 13:30
Closing panel (Aula)
Elisa Baroncini, Jennifer Hillman, Piotr Szwedo, Patrycja Grzebyk
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch break (in the hall)
14:00 – 18:00
Closed Board meetings ( room 52)