This one day symposium brings together academic scholars from City Law School (and Law Schools in the UK, Continental Europe and the United States), legal practitioners, NGO experts and policy makers, to explore opportunities in the proliferation of AI and modern technologies in the criminal process, while drawing particular attention to their human rights implications and investigating solutions about how to confront such implications.

Professor Brandon Garrett, of Duke University School of Law, will deliver the keynote address, on Due process and fairness in the time of AI, drawing on his recently published monograph on Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World (Polity, 2024).

Panels have the following focus:

• Panel 1: Live Facial Recognition, technologically enhanced investigative methods and suspects’ digital rights
• Panel 2: Human rights/procedural safeguards in virtual proceedings
• Panel 3: Panel 3: Modern technologies and AI in criminal evidence and sentencing
• Panel 4: AI development, and international human rights safeguards

This event has been co-ordinated by the City Law School’s new Head of Department (Academic Programmes) Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos. Professor Giannoulopoulos joins us from Goldsmiths, University of London.

I’m in! How do I attend?

You can register for the event, which takes place on Tuesday 6th May, whether intending to attend in-person or online via Zoom. The event begins at 9:30 with refreshments and ends at 5pm. Those coming along in-person will find us in the Lecture Theatre within the City Law School building.