The conference seeks to explore the layers of power that shape migration across the globe, and the multifaceted nature of the resulting human experience. Over three days, researchers, practitioners, and activists will discuss (dis)empowerment, agency, the role of structural power dynamics, and the ways that power is claimed and resisted on a macro and micro scale. The event will take a hybrid Zoom/in-person format to allow for speakers and attendees unable to attend in-person to join virtually. Register via this link.Link opens in a new window

From a comparative perspective, this conference invites consideration of core issues within this theme of McDonaldization. This might include, for example: how the defence is co-opted to provide guarantees that enable other safeguards to be reduced; the broad shift away from judicial and court roles, to a stronger prosecution function; ways of avoiding trial; or the role of technology in new modes of trial, and machine learning (AI) in criminal justice.

This is the 11th conference in the series The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial System, a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, North Carolina, Bologna, Basel and Duke University.