Dr Marcin Szwed
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Doctor of law, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and LLM studies in comparative constitutional law at the Central European University in Budapest. Author of numerous scientific publications. Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and coordinator of the Precedent Cases Programme of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Dr Marcin Ciemiński
Clifford Chance
Assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice at Clifford Chance, Head of Warsaw Pro Bono Group. He specializes in litigation and arbitration proceedings concerning commercial, civil, medical, public procurement and insurance law. He advises companies from different business sectors on compliance matters. He is the author of several publications on compliance and a frequent speaker on anti-corruption and compliance issues.
Dr Karolina Kremens
University of Wrocław
Head of Digital Justice Centre at the University of Wrocław (Poland). She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship (UCONN Law School, USA) and the McDougall Scholarship (UOttawa, Canada). She has lectured inter alia at the University of Bologna, the University of Exeter, Aberystwyth University and the University of Toledo. Her research interests focus on the impact of new technologies on the criminal justice process, comparative and international criminal procedure and the role of gender in the criminal process.
Dr Tetiana Bersheda
LexSnap
An internationally recognized legal practitioner as an international dispute resolution attorney at the Swiss Bar and former lecturer at the University of Geneva. She is passionate about innovative solutions to problems facing the legal market. She founded LexSnap in 2017.
Nicola Canestrini
European Criminal Bar Association
Representative of the European Criminal Bar Association, Italian criminal defence attorney with over two decades of experience, qualified to practise as a trial lawyer before the ICC, member of Fair Trials’ Legal Experts Advisory Panel. Nicola was also a visiting professor at the University of Ferrara (focus: Human Rights and International law of armed conflict) in 1999.
Prof. Gráinne McKeever
Ulster University
Professor of Law and Social Justice, and co-director of the Ulster Law Clinic. Gráinne’s research and teaching interests are in social justice, focused in particular on social security law, access to justice and administrative justice, and the development of a theoretical framework of legal participation.
Kate Scott
Clifford Chance
Partner in the Litigation and Contentious Regulatory Group at Clifford Chance. She specialises in financial services litigation, advising institutions and Fintech corporates on their reputationally significant and complex litigation matters. Kate works with clients to help them manage their emerging Fintech risks, particularly those arising from contentious cryptoassets, data and artificial intelligence matters. Kate is active in using new techniques and technology to manage large scale litigation more efficiently for her clients, such as KIRA and Technology Assisted Review, and the use of platforms to manage and report on portfolios of litigation.
Anu Uritam
Estonian Association of Judges
Judge at Harju County Court in Tallinn. As a judge, she resolves civil disputes, including intellectual property cases, damage cases, insurance cases and several contractual cases. Since 2016 she has been a member of the board of the Estonian Judges Association. From 2017 she was a Vice-President, and since 2021 she has been President of the Association.
Dr Katarzyna Wiśniewska
University of Luxembourg
Dr Katarzyna Wiśniewska - an advocate and human rights lawyer. She specializes in EU procedural rights and proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in human rights strategic litigation. In 2010-2021 she worked as a lawyer and project coordinator at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. She is the author and co-author of many academic and popular science publications. Currently, she works at the University of Luxembourg.
Ilze Tralmaka
Fair Trials
Fair Trials’ senior legal and policy officer. She currently leads Fair Trials’ work on pre-trial detention, remedies for illegally obtained evidence and digitalisation of justice (remote proceedings). Ilze is also involved in Fair Trials’ strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and other international and domestic courts and tribunals.
Katerina Entcheva
European Commission
She has worked as a first and a second instance judge for more than 23 years in Sofia District Court and Sofia City Court. Since 2018 she has worked for the European Commission. She was part of the team negotiating the recast Regulations on Service of Documents and Taking of Evidence. Currently she is working on the Digital Judicial Cooperation Initiative.
Prof. Piotr Girdwoyń
University of Warsaw
Director of the Forensic Science Centre at the University of Warsaw, member of the Senate of the University of Warsaw, member of the Board and member of the Scientific Council of the Polish Forensic Association. Received a scholarship at the Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg and was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, University of Baltimore, and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel. Appointed Chair Professor at the Criminal Justice College of the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai and Visiting Professor at the College of Medicine and Forensics of the Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an.
Prof. Sławomir Steinborn
University of Gdańsk
Professor and the head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics at the University of Gdańsk. Judge at the Court of Appeal in Gdańsk, member of the board of Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum and author of over 100 publications in areas of criminal procedure, European criminal law and constitutional law.
Prof. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk
University of Twente
Professor Emeritus of communication science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, Department of Communication. His chair is called The Sociology of the Information Society. He has been investigating the social aspects of information and communication technology since 1985.