Diploma Conference with Sarah Jamal
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- Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Sarah Jamal
- Conference mode: hybrid
- Moderator: Fabien Tarissan
- Registration: connect to the school's Intranet, section "Mes études/Pendant votre formation".
The number of places is limited to 500.
The lectures of the diploma are exclusively reserved to the normalien-nes, to the staff, to the teachers and to the researchers of the ENS Paris-Saclay.
Abstract
The contribution of new technologies to investigations in international law
While the Syrian state has closed its borders to hide the events taking place on its territory, international bodies have never had in their possession so much information and evidence about a conflict, thanks to the use of information posted on social networks.
Indeed, technological advances have changed the way mass crimes are investigated by allowing investigators to obtain an incredible amount of information posted by individuals on social networks. It is now possible to collect information posted on various social networks, whether it is videos, photos or documents.
All this data can come from people attending the scene, and even from people committing the violation. This participation of individuals on social networks transforms investigations because it tends to remove certain obstacles specific to mass crime investigations.
Indeed, these investigations face many obstacles to achieve their objective: to establish the existence of the commission of an international crime and the responsibility of its perpetrator(s).
In addition to the passage of time which leads to the erasure of available evidence, the investigator may also be deprived of access to the scene where the events took place. The participation of individuals on social networks mitigates this obstacle by giving access to other evidence.
But the use of this evidence itself generates new difficulties such as the need to authenticate it or to protect the person who provided the information.
Sarah Jamal
She is a lecturer in public law at the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas and is also the editor of the journal Droits Fondamentaux.
Her research focuses on public international law and human rights.
She is the author of a thesis on the role of science in the establishment of facts in international law.
She is particularly interested in the use of new technologies in investigations: "L'apport des nouvelles technologies aux enquêtes sur place : le consentement de l'État est-il toujours nécessaire ?", in O. de Frouville, J. Taverniers (eds.), La Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme, 70 ans après : les fondements des droits de l'homme au défi des nouvelles technologies, Éditions A. Pedone, Paris, 2019, pp.177-193.
She regularly speaks on this issue at conferences. On January 27 and 28, 2022, she will present "the new forms of investigation" at the 7th International Criminal Justice Days organized by the CRDH and the Thucydides Center.