Panels

Criminalisation challenges in a post-truth society: Post-Truth and Criminalisation
Chair: David Roef

Federica Fedorczyk & Filippo Venturi: Criminal Law as a tool of a ‘Régime of truth’: A Foucauldian Critique of criminalising fake news and deepfakes
Itai Siegel: Imagining Common Sense: Thinking Post-Truth Politics with Arendt and Ricoeur
Marek Adamkovic: Disinformation, Public Health, and the Role of Criminal Law

Conspiracy theories and crime: Causes and consequences of conspiracy theories
Chair: Hans Nelen

Fiore Geelhoed: Shattered trust: Belief in conspiracies and institutional distrust
Renze Tjoelker: Antecedents and consequences of belief in anti-establishment conspiracy theories: a systematic literature review
Denys Gorbach: Resisting the Securitisation Temptation: ‘Truth Defenders’ in the Francophone Belgium

Technology & AI: Truth Wars: AI, Fact-Checking, and Verifying Atrocities
Chair: Roland Moerland

Anna Piovan: AI and Core International Crimes: Challenges to Equality of Arms
Isabella Regan: Investigating atrocities in the digital age: open-source investigations and the struggle for authority and legitimacy
Amr Marzouk: In AI we (dis)Trust: The implications of AI monopoly over truth

Criminalisation challenges in a post-truth society: Criminalisation & Harm
Chair: Johannes Keiler

Gaia Fiorinelli: Criminalizing Disinformation: Navigating the Spectrum of Harms Within and Beyond the EU
Kamil Mamak: Criminalization of spreading disinformation: the case of superspreaders
Miguel Costa: The Legitimacy of Criminalising Fake News in Electoral Contexts

European dimensions of post-truth criminal justice
Chair: André Klip

Benedetta Arrighini & Beatrice Midolo: From Reform to Deception: How Criminal Justice Fuels Post-Truth 
Raquel Cardoso: Perception and Fact in Migrant Smuggling – and how Never the Twain Shall Meet
Marie Gabenisch: Human Trafficking: a Post-factual Crime? 
Roos Klomberg: The issue of guarantees and assurances in surrender procedures: which evidence speaks the truth?

Technology & AI: Truth on Trial: Technology, Evidence, and Credibility across Legal Systems
Chair: Alice Giannini

Dan Jasinski: Trials, Technology, and Truth: Reflections on the Impact of Technology on Truth-Finding in the English Criminal Justice System.
Christina Peristeridou: Defining Truth in Criminal Trials: A Comparative Analysis
Lisa Flower: You Can’t Handle the Truth? A Sociological Exploration of Physicality, Credibility, and Truth

Criminalisation challenges in a post-truth society: Post-truth Criminalisation and State Power
Chair: Giulia Giardi

Astrid Bastiaens: Delinquent librarians: the exacerbation of book bans in the US
Irina Fehr: The Vulnerability of Whistleblowers in a Post-Truth Society: A Comparative Criminal Law Perspective
Camilla Ugaz Heudebert: Weaponized Lies: Navigating Post-Truth in Venezuela’s Kleptocracy

Conspiracy theories and crime: Conspiracy theories and legal decision making
Chair: Suzan van der Aa

Iwan Dinnick: A Conspiracy-Juror Bias: How Conspiracy Mentality Makes Jurors More Punitive Towards Criminal Defendants
Simona Trocino: Judging science in the post-truth era.
Johannes Bijlsma: Are conspiracy theorists criminally responsible?

Technology & AI: The Algorithm as Witness: Due Process and Evidence Concerns
Chair: Jill Coster van Voorhout

Michele Ubertone: Opaque Algorithms as Expert Evidence: Deference vs. Education
Brandon Garrett: AI and Due Process
Anna Pivaty: Justice Without a Voice? Reclaiming Narrative in an AI-Driven Criminal System

Conspiracy theories and crime: Conspiracy theories and committing crime
Chair: Jan-Willem van Prooijen

Emma van der Tak: Sovereign citizen movement
Lisa van Es: How pseudolegal advice manifests itself in criminal offending and suspect interrogations of sovereign citizens in the Netherlands
Katrien VanLerberghe: Exploring neutralisation in extremist narratives: a study of Brenton Tarrant’s ‘the great replacement’

Technology & AI: Machine-Certified Truths? AI, DNA, and the Authority of Digital Evidence and Legal Fact Finding
Chair: Gaetano Ancona

Celine Taylor Parkins-Ozephius: Byte-sized Truths: The reliability assessment of digital evidence in Dutch criminal courts
Margaux Coquet: The Use of AI in Forensic DNA Technologies: From Epistemological Tensions to Ethical Conundrums
Saara Hammar: Technology as the authority in legal fact-finding

Criminalisation challenges in a post-truth society: Criminalisation and alternatives
Chair: Roland Pierik

Baran Kizilrmak: Challenging Truth: Legal Responses to Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era without Silencing Dissent
Michael Klos: Content moderation and criminalisation of disinformation
Marloes van Noorloos: Disinformation: criminal law v. online platform regulation

Science in court (evidence gathering and interviewing)
Chair: Henry Otgaar

Ewout Meijer: Artificial intelligence-powered investigative interviewing
Marika Madfors: From truth to trickery: A scoping review of (deceptively) misrepresented evidence in suspect interviews
Melanie Sauerland: How acquitted suspects decided to remain silent, deny or confess
Maaike Brijker: Truth on Trial - How Dutch Lawyers Frame Recanted Confessions