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2025 CJIL Symposium: Technological Innovation in Global Governance: Measuring Potential to Create, Facilitate, and Destroy

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Add to Calendar 2025-01-31 09:00:00 2025-01-31 16:30:00 2025 CJIL Symposium: Technological Innovation in Global Governance: Measuring Potential to Create, Facilitate, and Destroy Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2025-cjil-symposium - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public —
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public

The world has witnessed three industrial revolutions, and the fourth one is knocking on the door. New technologies may soon permeate all aspects of people’s lives, fusing the physical, digital, and biological worlds. Such fusion presents opportunities and challenges for the future of global governance. The CJIL 2025 Symposium explores how international law is keeping pace with the burgeoning consequences of technological innovation. The key question is whether international law can provide the world with sound solutions for the disruptions caused by technological shifts. The panelists will examine their areas of expertise through an analytical framework that posits technology as a creator, facilitator, and destroyer.

Schedule of Events

  • Friday, January 31, 2025
    • Opening Remarks
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        • Dean Thomas J. Miles, University of Chicago Law School
        • Jennifer Kuo, Chicago Journal of International Law
    • Keynote by Paul B. Stephan: International Law and Technological Innovation
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        • Introduction: Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School
        • Paul B. Stephan, University of Virginia, John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
    • Break
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    • Panel #1: Technology as Facilitator
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        • Large Language Models and International Law, Ashley Deeks & Duncan Hollis
        • Unfit for Purpose: The Limitations of International Criminal Justice in a Technological World, Lindsay Freeman
        • Digital Investigations of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Possibilities and Practice, Alexa Koenig
        • Pledging as a New Form of International Ordering, Melissa Durkee
        • Decoding Chain Reactions Triggered by U.S. Free Trade Agreements on Counterparts: A Quantitative Analysis with Large Language Models, Sangchul Park 
        • Digital Evidence: Facilitating What and for Whom?, Rebecca Hamilton & Adebayo Okeowo
        • Emerging Technologies and Evidence in Future Armed Conflict: From Biometrics to Artificial Intelligence, Winthrop Wells
        • Moderator: Priyanka Motaparthy, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law 
    • Lunch
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    • Panel #2: Technology as Creator
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        • Technology and the Unique Challenges of Applying Law to the Realm of Outer Space and Space Activities, Frans von der Dunk
        • Interplanetary Risk Regulation, Jonathan B. Wiener & Chase Hamilton
        • Planetary Satellite Data in International Legal Governance, Benedict Kingsbury & Yirong Sun
        • Interpretation as Creation: Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty, Charles W. Stotler
        • Moderator: Bridget Fahey, University of Chicago Law School
    • Break
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    • Panel #3: Technology as Destroyer
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        • The Law of Armed Conflict in the Dark, Laurie R. Blank
        • Big Data and the Laws of War: Gap-Filling, Translation, and the Construction of New International Legal Paradigms to Address Big Data in Military Operation, Laura A. Dickinson
        • Technology and the Law of Jus Ante Bellum, Asaf Lubin
        • Two Terribles: A Day Without Space and AI Enabled Synthetic Biological Weapons, Hon. James E. Baker
        • Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare: Distinction, Proportionality and Precautions in Attacks at Sea, James Kraska
        • Moderator: Michele Krech, University of Chicago Law School
    • Break
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    • Closing Remarks
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