Events
Emotions and International Law
Upcoming activities
Emotions, Technology, and Justice
University of Leuven
Leuven Global Law 2025-2026
Lecture series by Anne Saab
Leuven, Belgium
17-21 November 2025
Emotions and International Law workshop
Geneva Graduate Institute
More information coming soon
Geneva, Switzerland
4 & 5 June 2026
Previous activities
Ethical Algorithms and the ‘Reasonable Military Commander’ Standard in the Law of Armed Conflict
International Law Association – Swiss Branch
Law and Technology Interest Group Inaugural Roundtable ‘Technology is Global’
Aliki Semertzi
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
3 July 2025
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2025
LSA Annual Meeting
Anne Saab, Portia Karegeya
Chicago, USA
22-25 May 2025
‘FEEL’ (Framework for Emotions in International Law) expert workshop
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Heidelberg, Germany
Anne Saab
Online workshop, by invitation
24 April 2025
Water, War, and Wrath: Transforming Conflicts Through Water Diplomacy
Geneva Graduate Institute, Lunch Briefing
Presentation by Mark Zeitoun
Moderated by Anne Saab
Geneva, Switzerland
25 March 2025
Feeling Unsafe: Law as Emotional Regulation in the Development and Deployment of AI-enabled Means and Methods of Warfare
Geneva Graduate Institute & Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Anne Saab, Aliki Semertzi
Geneva, Switzerland
21 February 2025
Law and/in the Anthropocene
Swiss Network for Law and Society
2nd conference of the SNLS
Anne Saab
Bern, Switzerland
10-12 February 2025
Gathering on emotions and international law
Lund University
Anne Saab, Aliki Semertzi, Portia Karegeya
Lund, Sweden
6-7 February 2025
Emotions, AI-Decision Support Systems, and the Law of Armed Conflict
American Society of International Law
Midyear Meeting Research Forum
Aliki Semertzi
University of Chicago Law School
14-16 November 2024
Creativity and International Law
University of Antwerp
Panel discussion organized by the Belgian Network of Junior Researchers in International Law
Anne Saab
Antwerp, Belgium
4 October 2024
Emotions, AI-Decision Support Systems, and the Laws of War
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Biennial Conference on International Law and the Social Sciences
Aliki Semertzi
Chicago, USA
27-28 September 2024
Anger and Hope in Youth Climate Litigation
LSA Annual Meeting
Anne Saab
Denver, USA
6-9 June 2024
Emotions and Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
LSA Annual Meeting
Aliki Semertzi
Denver, USA
6-9 June 2024
Decolonizing Global Health Governance, Infrastructure, and Law: A Shame and Stigma Reduction Strategy
LSA Annual Meeting
Portia Karegeya
Denver, USA
6-9 June 2024
Emotion-Related Technologies in Warfare
CIES, Geneva Graduate Institute
Lunch Seminar series of the CIES
Aliki Semertzi
Geneva, Switzerland
18 April 2024
Presentation of our project on Emotions and International Law
Biotech Campus, University of Geneva
Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Lab
Anne Saab, Aliki Semertzi, Portia Karegeya
Geneva, Switzerland
12 April 2024
Guest Lecture on Emotions and International Law
Geneva School of Social Sciences
Course on ‘Emotions and Conflict Resolution’
Aliki Semertzi and Portia Karegeya
Geneva, Switzerland
11 March 2024
Emotions and International Law
Geneva Graduate Institute
Project Launch
Anne Saab, Aliki Semertzi, Portia Karegeya
Geneva, Switzerland
15 February 2024
AI and Nuclear: Emotion Parallels and the IAEA as a regulatory model for AI
Modern Law Review Seminar
The Challenges of International Law-Making for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Aliki Semertzi
University of Essex, UK
12 December 2023
Anger and Hope in Youth Climate Litigation
Centre for Fundamental Rights Workshop
Frames of European Human Rights – How are climate change, migration, and authoritarianism framed within the Council of Europe?
Anne Saab
Hertie School Berlin Germany
16-17 November 2023
Emotions in International Food Law
UBVO Seminar
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO)
Anne Saab
University of Oxford, UK
26 October 2023
International Law Weekend
ILA American Branch Conference
International Law Weekend
Portia Karegeya
New York City, USA
19-21 October 2023
Anger and Hope in Youth Climate Litigation
ESIL Conference
European Society of International Law annual conference
Anne Saab
Aix-en-Provence, France
30 August – 2 September 2023