Lund Symposium: Virtual Criminal Trials
The second symposium of our Network takes place at the Lund University, Sweden. The conference promises to be an engaging and intellectually stimulating event, combining cutting-edge scholarship with ample space for discussion and exchange. A keynote address will be delivered by Professor Carolyn McKay, who will speak on virtual criminal justice and vulnerability.
The conference panels will explore virtual criminal justice from a wide range of perspectives, including the practice of working in virtual courtrooms across different jurisdictions, the giving of evidence in virtual settings, emotions and lived experience in virtual trials, due process concerns, and the challenges of transnational virtual courtrooms. The conference will conclude with a forward-looking session dedicated to courtroom technologies of the future.
Invited speakers across the panels will include: Dorris de Vocht, Nina Immonen, Anni Lietonen, Lennart Johansson, Marcus Larsson, Emma Olsson, Dan Jasinski, Sławomir Steinborn, Maciej Fingas, Dawid Marko, Piotr Rogoziński, Shailesh Kumar, Lisa Flower, Jessica Jacobson, Amy Kirby, Isabel Schoultz, Nina Törnqvist, Fanny Holm, Ashlee Beazley, Anna Pivaty, Lorenzo Bernardini, Christina Peristeridou, Karolina Kremens, Saskia Hufnagel, Cloé Dubuc, Avni Bahri, Arshia Sana, and Volker Settgast.
Participants will attend both in person and online, with representation from, inter alia, Australia, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Finland, and Italy. The European Criminal Bar Association and the NGO FairTrials is also represented.
The Network warmly thanks all speakers and participants—onsite and online—for their engagement, as well as Riksbankens Jubileumfond for generously funding this conference. Further events will follow, and updates will be shared via the Network’s website.
