The Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law & Research Platform on Peace, Security and Human Rights are organising a conference on accountability for international crimes committed in Ukraine.

The conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine criminal accountability, the governance of a potential Special Tribunal, European judicial cooperation, reparations mechanisms, and the complex challenges of state immunity in the pursuit of justice for Ukraine. After the keynotespeech by Jörg Polakiewicz (Council of Europe), there will be two panels:

Panel 1: Criminal Accountability

• S. Vasiliev (OU): The Special Tribunal’s Governance Framework and Accountability for the Crime of Aggression.

• D. Cline (International criminal lawyer): The Tribunal in Action: Potential Case Building Challenges?

• Z. Ratniece (Eurojust): European Judicial Cooperation Mechanisms in Relation to Ukraine.

Panel 2: Reparations

• L. Basha (PACE Rapporteur on Frozen Russian State Assets): Designing a Reparations Mechanism: The Claims Commission and Next Steps for Frozen Russian State Assets.

• H. Over de Linden (Rechta Lawyers): The Persistence of Immunity in Dutch Civil Cases - Recent Case Law and Personal Experience at the District Court in The Hague.

• L. Pasquet & C. Ryngaert (UU): Reparations for Ukraine - The Challenge of State Immunity

Datum:

woensdag 8 april 2026

Tijd:

13:00 tot 17:00 uur

Locatie:

Utrecht University, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht