School of Law

9 am - 9:30 am  

Registration 

9.30 am - 9.45 am 

Welcome 

• Charlie Peevers (University of Glasgow) 

9.45 am - 10.30 am 

Keynote 

• Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) 

10.30 am - 11.00 am 

Coffee break 

11.00 am - 12.30 pm 

Panel 1: Disarmament as Decolonial and Feminist Praxis 

• Marina Garcez (Human Rights Lawyer, Brazil): Feminist Disarmament in Brazil: Small Arms, Femicide, and Militarized Patriarchy (online) 
• Leila Hennaoui (Hassiba Ben Bouali University of Chlef): Decolonizing Disarmament: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Legal Reimagining of Global Security 
• Gina Heathcote (Newcastle University) and Loveday Hodson (University of Leicester): Nuclear Testing, Decolonisation and State Responsibility: Protest and Nuclear Violence on the Peripheries of Empire 
• Catherine Eschle (University of Strathclyde): Weaving Webs Across Oceans: Antinuclear Solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Communities 

12.30 pm -1.30 pm 

Lunch 

1.30 pm - 3.00 pm 

Panel 2: Rethinking Disarmament and International Law 

• Treasa Dunworth (University of Auckland): A(nother) New Agenda for Peace 
• Janet Fenton  

• Juneseo Hwang (University of Hamburg): Military Bases and Justice: A Pacifist Critique of Post-1945 Legal Frameworks amid the Global Arms Race 

• Ray Acheson (Reaching Critical Will): Confronting Violence with Solidarity: Marginalised Perspectives on Disarmament and Law (online) 

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm 

Coffee break 

3.30pm - 5pm 

Panel 3: Disarmament from the Legal, Political and Geographic Margins 

• Sameer Rashid Bhat (University of Oxford): Disarmament from the Margins under an Unrecognised Regime: the Case of Afghanistan under the Taliban (online) 

• Francois Naaman (Columbia Law School): Disarming with Dignity: Transitional Justice as a Path to Demilitarization in Lebanon 

• Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe University): Disarmament in the Dominions in the Interwar Period 

• Arnulf Becker-Lorca (EUI, Florence): From the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Tlatelolco to the reclamation of the right to the atom for Latin America 

Time 

Event 

9.30 am - 10.15 am 

Keynote 

• Karen Engle (University of Texas) 

10.15 am - 10.45 am 

Coffee break 

10.45am - 12.15 pm 

Panel 4: Material Power, Capital Flows, and the Infrastructure of War 

• Selma Mustafić (Uppsala University): Divestment as disarmament

• Cooper Christiancy (University of Texas Law School): Economic and social rights and the slow violence of nuclear weapons 

• Vanessa Vuille (University of Lausanne): The role of universities in disarmament: marginalised, yet central 

12.15 pm – 1.15 pm 

Lunch 

1.15 pm - 2.00 pm  

Keynote  

• Anna Hood (University of Auckland) 

2.00 pm - 3.30 pm  

Panel 5: Innovative Legal Approaches to Disarmament  

• Ankit Malhotra (Felix Scholar): Algorithmic Accountability and Tort Litigation (online) 

• Stacey Henderson (Flinders University) The Contribution of Non-Binding Measures to Chemical and Biological Disarmament 

• Rhys Crilley and Carolina Pantoliano (University of Glasgow): TBA 
• E. Prema and Ragul OV (VIT School of Law): Disarmament from the Margins: Law, Activism, and Agency 

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm 

Coffee break 

4.00 pm – 5.30 pm  

Roundtable Discussion:

• Alicia Sanders-Zakre (ICAN) 

• Jane Tallents
• Isobel Lindsay
• Jean Urquhart

Closing Reflections:

• Karen Engle (University of Texas)
• Vasuki Nesiah (NYU)
• Anna Hood (University of Auckland)

Evening event 

Conference Dinner for Speakers