This year’s annual conference of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law will present “Technology, Accountability, and Criminality in Transnational and International Conflict (TACTIC)”. The conference will be offered jointly by the GJICL, the Georgia Criminal Law Review, and the Georgia Journal of Law & Technology.

The daylong conference will take place on Friday, September 18 in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall at the University of Georgia School of Law. CLE credit is available for both in-person and virtual attendance. Registration information can be found here.

Sponsoring along with GJICL, a student-edited journal established more than 50 years ago, is the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center. GJICL Editor in Chief, William Stowers (J.D. ’27) and Executive Conference Editor Samantha Northenor (J.D. ’27) worked with Georgia Criminal Law Review Editor in Chief Eli Werbel (J.D. 27) and Georgia Journal of Law & Technology Editor in Chief Cat Wood (J.D. ’27); Professor Joseph S. Miller, Ernest P. Rogers Chair of Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law; Center staff Sarah Quinn, Director; Taher S. Benany, Center Associate Director; and Lindsay Weinmann, Center Administrative Specialist; and with the GJICL’s Faculty Advisor, Professor Desirée LeClercq, who is Associate Professor of Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center.

Below is the concept note of the conference:

TACTIC will examine how modern conflict is reshaping the relationships among state power, technological systems, and legal accountability. Analyzing international law, technology law, and criminal law, the symposium will consider how contemporary conflicts expose pressure points in the rules-based international order, the governance of digital platforms and algorithmic systems, and the mechanisms available when states or individual actors violate legal norms. These questions and ideas will be explored throughout three panels: War Crimes: Accountability for Violations of International Law; Sovereignty in the Cloud: Data Jurisdiction, Commercialized Reconnaissance, and Critical Infrastructure; and The Rules-Based Order Under Fire: Sovereignty, Force, and Adaptability from Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan

The day’s events are as follows:

9:05am | Opening Remarks

Usha Rodrigues, Dean, University Professor & M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law

9:10am | Panel 1: War Crimes: Accountability for Violations of International Law

• Michael Newton, Professor of the Practice of Law & Director, International Legal Studies Program, Vanderbilt University Law School
• Rebecca Crootof, Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
• Patrick Keenan, Albert J. Harno Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
• Moderator: Jason A. Cade, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law & Community Health Law Partnership Clinic Director, University of Georgia School of Law

10:20am | Break

10:30am| Panel 2: Sovereignty in the Cloud: Data Jurisdiction, Commercialized Reconnaissance, and Critical Infrastructure

• Peter Swire, J.Z. Liang Chair, Professor, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
• David Sella-Villa, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
• Bess Hinson-Greenspan, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
• Moderator: Forthcoming

11:40am | Lunch

1:20pm | Panel 3: The Rules-Based Order Under Fire: Sovereignty, Force, and Adaptability from Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan

• Charles Trumbull, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
• Christopher J. Borgen, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, St. John’s University School of Law
• Mikulas Fabry, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Moderator: Forthcoming

2:30pm | Closing Remarks

William Stowers, Editor in Chief, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law