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Previous Conferences

The McDonaldization of justice and the disappearance of fair trial?

11thConference on the future of adversarial and inquisitorial systems

The main conference took place on Friday 20th and the morning of Saturday 21st May. The conference was free of charge with bursaries available for ECRs and PhD students, as part of the University of Warwick's Enhancing Research Culture strategy. This was the 11th conference in the series The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems, a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, North Carolina, Bologna, Basel and Duke University.

Data crimes: Public or Private? The Role of Victims in Criminal Justice

10th conference on the "The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems"
University of Basel, 25-27 April 2018

Warwick Law School's Criminal Justice Centre celebrated the 10th Conference on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems from 25-27 April 2018 at the University of Basel, Switzerland, featuring expert and early career researchers from North America, Australia, Russia and across Europe. The annual conference is the product of a collaboration between Warwick Law School and the Universities of North Carolina, Bologna and Basel. This year the focus of the conference was 'Data Crimes: Public or Private? The Role of Victims in Criminal Justice' and featured a key note lecture from Professor Mireille Hildebrandt, from Vrije Universiteit Brussels. From Warwick Law School, Professor Jackie Hodgson chaired the panel 'Should the Victim be Entitled to be Involved in the Decision whether or not to Prosecute Data Crimes?' and doctoral researcher Natalie Kyneswood presented a socio-legal paper in the Early Careers conference section, on 'Informal Justice, Accountability and Punishment in Digital Society: A Case Study of Responses to Feminist Digilantism on Facebook'.

Criminal Investigations in the Age of Smart Data, A Transatlantic Perspective

8th conference on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems
University of Bologna, 12-14th May, 2016

The eighth conference in the ‘Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems’ series was hosted between the 12th May – 14th May 2016 at the University of Bologna-Ravenna. The annual conference is co-hosted by the University of Warwick (UK), the University of North Carolina (USA), the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the University of Bologna-Ravenna. The theme of the conference was: Criminal Investigations in the Age of Smart Data, a Transatlantic Perspective.

An early career scholars session took place on the 12th May where criminal investigations and challenges of the digital age and ‘big data’ were discussed. Melina Dobson from the University of Warwick gave a presentation on the implications of social media on privacy and secrecy.

As secret surveillance becomes an increasingly common means of extracting information during investigations, the implications on citizens’ privacy was discussed. The conference explored international perspectives to regulating government surveillance, including the different surveillance methods used, the legal frameworks for surveillance and their corresponding safeguards.

The conference examined the future of criminal justice tools in the digital age. The consequences of Snowden on encryption and surveillance was also considered and the future challenges for criminal investigation authorities.

Access to Counsel during Criminal Proceedings: Reshaping Rights & Remedies

7th Conference on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems
University of Warwick, 18-20th May 2015

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The Conference cycle on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems is a collaboration between the University of Warwick (UK), the University of North Carolina (USA), the University of Bologna-Ravenna (Italy) and the University of Basel (Switzerland). The Seventh Conference in the series was hosted from 18-20th May 2015 by the Criminal Justice Centre at the University of Warwick. The theme of this year's conference was: 'Access to Counsel during Criminal Proceedings: Reshaping Rights and Remedies'.

An Early Career Scholars session dedicated to the protection of vulnerable suspects within criminal proceedings took place on Monday 18th May.

From a European perspective, the theme of the conference was inspired by the new European Union Directive on access to a lawyer (2013/48/EU), as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights under the Salduz v. Turkey jurisprudence. In the U.S., reflection on this topic has been reinvigorated by the recent half-century anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the case that extended the right to counsel under the federal Constitution to every defendant in a state felony trial.

The conference examined the relationship between the EU system of criminal justice and the domestic systems of its Member States on one hand, and between the federal system of criminal justice in the United States and the systems of the individual states on the other. The aim of the conference was to reflect on the right to counsel (and the related safeguards – such as the right to be informed), in Western systems, and to verify if some common trends or approaches to the matter emerge.