The DigiRights Conference

 

The Conference will take place on 30–31 January 2025 at the KU Leuven, Belgium. It will also be hybrid.

 

The Conference represents the concluding event of the DigiRights Project, an Action Grant funded by the Justice Programme (JUST) of the European Union.

 

The Conference will offer a platform for the partners of the DigiRights Project to present their project findings, as well as provide the opportunity for engagement with other scholars and stakeholders in discussions and exchanges on the concept and question of “digital defence rights”.

Over the scheduled two days, the Conference will include the following panels:

• Panel I: National approaches to the digitalisation of defence rights

This panel will involve the DigiRights project partners, who will each discuss their national approaches to the safeguarding of defence rights in digital proceedings, from the perspective of their jurisdiction, as covered by the DigiRights Project (being Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary and Italy).

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• Panel II: Supranational approaches to the digitalisation of defence rights

This panel will delve into supranational approaches to the safeguarding of defence rights in digital proceedings, particularly (but not exclusively) at European level, both from the legislative perspective (supranational legal instruments, e.g. European directives), as well as from the viewpoint of supranational jurisprudence (case law).

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• Panel III: Perspectives on the safeguarding of defence rights in digital proceedings

This panel will be split into four sub-panels, each focussing on one of the defence rights considered by the DigiRights project, namely the rights to: interpretation and translation, access the case file, legal assistance and legal aid, and presence.

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• Panel IV: Roundtable: the DigiRights proposals and guidelines

  This panel will be a roundtable discussion between invited high-level stakeholders and the DigiRights partners on the Project’s proposed guidelines.

More details on the programme will follow in due course.