8.30 Registration
9.00 Welcome: Professor Magne Frostad, Vice Dean for Research & Dr Gaiane Nuridzhanian, Research Group for Human Rights and International Law
9.10-10.00 Keynote talk by Professor Roger O’Keefe, Bocconi University
10.15-11.30 Panel I. ILC’s work on state official immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction
Moderator: Nathalie Ottosson, PhD at UiT Faculty of Law
Matyáš Dvořák, Masaryk University, The Erosion of Functional Immunity for International Crimes: Assessing Domestic Jurisprudence as Emerging Custom
Isabel Walther, Humboldt University Berlin (HU), (Non-) Invocation of Immunity Ratione Materiae of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction
Dobrosława C. Budzianowska, Between Strategic Ambiguity and Legal Development: The ‘Without Prejudice’ Clause and the Role of the ILC in the Law of State Official Immunity
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.00 Panel II. State official immunity before international criminal courts
Moderator: Hannah Louise Bekkelund, PhD at UiT Faculty of Law
Alan Amadio, University of Trento, Making sense of the ‘certain international criminal courts’ exception to immunities through the lens of State responsibility
Héloïse Guichardaz, University of Glasgow, Art 98(1) of the Rome Statute, immunities, and jus cogens: the case of the arrest of Netanyahu in French airspace
Anna Facchinetti, University of Pavia, Personal and functional immunity of State officials before the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.15 Panel III. Immunity, regime change and non-recognition
Moderator: Dr Jessica Schechinger, Post-doctoral research fellow at UiT Faculty of Law/Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea
Florian Sebastian Bayer, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Immunity without Legitimacy? Personal Immunity, Regime Change, and the Rule of Law
Sondre Torp Helmersen, UiT, State Immunity for Unrecognized States and Governments in International Law
Marco Longobardo, University of Westminster, The Interplay between Non-Recognition and Immunities of States and State Officials
15.15-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.45 Panel IV. Confiscation of Russian assets in light of rules on state immunity
Moderator: Klara Bugge Kaspersen, PhD at UiT Faculty of Law
Paul Gragl, University of Graz, Sanctions and Punishment – Seizing Russian State Assets under the New EU Sanctions Violations Directive
Attila Novák, Catholic University of Louvain, Active management of frozen sovereign assets: (un)lawfulness and potential justifications under international law
Marusa T. Veber, University of Ljubljana, The confiscation of state property and the law of state immunities: interplay between primary, secondary and procedural rules of international law
16.45-17.15 Concluding remarks by Professor Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen