Friday 29 November
Location: restaurant De Veranda, Amstelveenseweg 764, 1081 JK Amsterdam
9.30-10.30 Registration and Coffee
Ballroom
10.45-11.00 Welcome
11.00-11.45 Keynote lecture Antony Duff, Who Must Presume Whom to Be Innocent of What?
11.45-12.30 Keynote lecture Thomas Weigend, There is Only One Presumption of Innocence
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.40 Parallel Sessions
Session 1, Ballroom
Cluster: Surveillance
Chair: Lonneke Stevens
14.00-14.30 Céline Cocq, The impact of the surveillance technologies on the rights of defence, including the presumption of innocence
14.35-15.05 Antonella Galetta, Presuming innocence vs. presuming guilt in the pre-trial stage. Building synergies in law to face surveillance challenges
15.10-15.40 Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici & Jonida Milaj-Weishaar, Unwitting subjects of surveillance and the presumption of innocence
session 2, Upperdeck
Cluster: History of the presumption of innocence
Chair: Derk Venema
14-14.30 Eva van Luijk, Smoke without fire, criminal liability without blame? The way the Dutch judiciary dealt with criminal liability
14.35-15.05 Rafael Van Damme, The disruption of scapegoat mechanisms in criminal law: a consequence of the presumption of innocence?
15.10-15.40 TBA
session 3, Gallery
Chair: Magnus Ulväng
14-14.30 Pamela Ferguson, Conceptions of the Presumption of Innocence: Instrumental Tool or Mind Set?
14.35-15.05 Kyriakos Kotsoglou, On the Problem of Justifying an Acquittal
15.10-15.40 Ferry de Jong & Leonie van Lent, The counterfactual core of the presumption of innocence
15.40-16.15 Tea
16.15-17.20 Parallel Sessions
Session 1, Ballroom
Cluster: Post-trial
Chair: Alwin van Dijk
16.15-16.45 Miranda Boone & Elina Kurtovic, Collateral sentencing and the principle of innocence
16.50-17.20 Wiene van Hattum, The Presumption of Innocence beyond ‘Aquittal’
Session 2, Upperdeck
Chair: Antony Duff
16.15-16.45 Peter DeAngelis, The Communicative Value of the Presumption of Innocence: Respect and the Inequitable Distribution of the Burden of Police Suspicion
16.50-17.20 Stephen Riley, Human Dignity and the Presumption of Innocence
Session 3, Gallery
Chair: Derk Venema
16.15-16.45 Liz Campbell, Criminal labels and the presumption of innocence
16.50-17.20 John Child, Prior fault: blocking defences and constructing crimes
Saturday 30 November
Location: VU University, Main Building, 14th floor, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam
8.45-9.15 Registration in the Hall of the 14th Floor
Lecture hall HG-14A33
9.15-10.00 Keynote lecture Alwin van Dijk, Retributivist Arguments against Presuming Innocence
10.00-10.45 Keynote lecture Magnus Ulväng, Presumption of Innocence Versus a Principle of Fairness
10.45-11.15 Coffee
Lecture hall HG-14A33
11.15-12.00 Keynote lecture Lonneke Stevens, The Meaning of the Presumption of Innocence for Pre-trial Detention. An Empirical Approach
12.00-13.30 Lunch
Location: Restaurant Nine
, Arnold Schönberglaan 9, Amsterdam
13.30-15.10 Parallel Sessions
Session 1, Lecture hall HG14A20
Cluster: Terrorism
Chair: Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici
13.30-14.00 Francesca Galli, Terrorists’ blacklisting: sanctions prior to a conviction. Quid of the presumption of innocence?
14.05-14.35 Heidi Mork Lomell, Precautionary criminal law and its uneasy relationship with the presumption of innocence
14.40-15.10 Hadassa Noorda, Travel Bans, Asset Freezes and other Targeted Preventions of Terrorist Acts at the Interface of War and Peace
Session 2, Lecture hall HG14A36
Workshop: Models of rational legal proof and the problem of having sufficient evidence
Chair: Henry Prakken
13.30-14.00 Henry Prakken, Procedural rationality and models of legal proof
14.05-14.35 Floris Bex, Hybrid models of legal proof and the problem of sufficient evidence
14.40-15.10 Peter van Koppen, Narrative approaches to legal proof and the problem of sufficient evidence
Session 3, Lecture hall HG 14A37
Workshop: The presumption of innocence in juvenile law
Chair: Ido Weijers
13.30-14.00 Ido Weijers, The presumption of innocence and the Dutch juvenile justice system
14.05-14.35 Kristien Hepping, The presumption of innocence and the responsibility of parents in Dutch juvenile law
14.40-15.10 Joost Huijer, The presumption of innocence in the Dutch child protection system
15.10-15.40 Tea
15.40-16.45 Parallel Sessions
Sesssion 1, Lecture hall HG14A20
Cluster: Plea bargain
Chair: Alwin van Dijk
15.40-16.10 Laura Peters, Sentence agreements, agreements on guilt?
16.15-16.45 Katarína Danková & Igor Barilik, The Presumption of Innocence and Other Basic Principles of Criminal Procedure in the Czech Criminal Process after the Introduction of ‘Guilt and Punishment Agreement’
Session 2, Lecture Hall HG14A36
Cluster: Victims
Chair: Sandra Marshall
15.40-16.10 Alice Bosma, The presumption of victimhood
16.15-16.45 Wouter Veraart, The Rise of the Victim as Paradigm Shift: Blessing or Scourge?
Session 3, Lecture hall: HG 14A37
Chair: Thomas Weigend
15.40-16.10 Roger Shiner, Corporations, Deferred Prosecution and the Presumption of Innocence
16.15-16.45 Gonçalo Braga da Cruz, Presumption of Innocence in criminal proceedings – state of play from the European Commission
16.45-17.30 Farewell Drinks
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