Conference Participation |  Invited Talks

• Invited contribution, workshop Strategising together: embedding tech expertise in digital rights litigation, Digital Freedom Fund, Berlin (Oct 2022)
• ‘Schrödinger’s Cats in the Cloud: Privacy and Open-source Are Dead (and Aren’t)’,Gikii Conference, Gikii 2021: The Light at the End of the Vaccination Syringe Edition (14-15 Sept 2021)

• ‘Data Colonisation – Consumers or Citizens?’, Urban Ecology and Eco-justice course, Brooklyn College, New York, USA (Aug 2021)

• ‘Guilty by ByLock: How International Human Rights Law Bodies Address the de facto Criminalisation of Encryption in Post-coup Turkey?’,Conference on Legal Challenges in the Digital Era, University of Groningen & University of Tirana (Apr 2021)

• ‘The Right to Be Forgotten as a Global Censorship Mechanism? The ECtHR Juggling Political Expression, Privacy and the Internet’s Integrity’, Old and New Threats to Freedom of Expression, Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights, Berlin (Jun 2021)

• ‘Teaching and (un)learning international law in Qatar’, Series on Teaching International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London (Apr 2021)

• ‘Human Rights Law Reasoning 2.0: Accommodating the Technical Features of the Internet into Human Rights Law?’, British & Irish Law Education and Technology Association Annual Conference, online (Apr 2021)

• ‘Teaching and Learning Dissidence and Interdisciplinarity by Telling Stories?’,Teaching Academy Groningen, Groningen (Apr 2021)

• ‘Doing What We Love? Giving Students More Space to Become Creative, Independent Learners’,Symposium: Innovations in International Legal Education During the Pandemic, Southern Illinois University Law Journal (Apr 2021)

• Teaching International Human Rights Law for Global Challenges: Applying the Design Thinking Approach’,2nd Global Studies International Week, Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca, Salamanca (Apr 2021)

• ‘Banksy and (re-)Thinking Technology’,2nd Global Studies International Week, Faculty of Law, University of Salamanca, Salamanca (Apr 2021)

• ‘Digital Identity in Indonesia and Human Rights Challenges’, Conference: Unraveling Access to Justice in a Time of Uncertainty, Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia (Oct 2020) (by invitation)

• ‘Comparing the Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae of International Courts on Human Rights: New Designs and Old Anxieties’, Cycle Conférences sur l’Europe, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg (Oct 2019) (invited lecture)

• ‘What Are International Courts Made Of? The Law and Politics of the Expertise of International Judges’, Lunchtime seminar, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne (Jul 2019)

• ‘Non-legal Expertise and Practice-based (Legal) Experience: What is Their Place on the International Bench?’, 27^th Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, International Law Futures: The Intersection of Law with Knowledge, Information and Expertise, Australian National University, Canberra (Jul 2019)

• ‘On New “Judicial Animals”: The Curious Case of an African World Court on Human Rights’, PluriCourts 2019 Workshop: The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals, Oslo (Jun 2019)

• ‘(International) Law as AutoCorrect’, Society Rebooted: Digital Infrastructure and its Governmentality, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Jun 2019)

• ‘The Law and Politics of the Requirement of “Recognised Competence in International Law”: (S)electing Judges and Arbitrators and Controlling the International Bench’, Conference: Comparative Procedure in State-to-State Disputes, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, Leiden (May 2019)

• ‘Procedural Rules on Selecting Judges: Developments Across International Courts’, Conference: Procedural Rules of International Courts and Tribunals: Between Change and Stability, Sapienza University, Rome (May 2019)

• ‘The Protection of Human Rights in the Core Architecture of the Internet’, Annual Research Day: The Future of Human Rights – Human Rights of the Future, Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, Tilburg (Jun 2018)

• ‘Blockchain 4 Open Science’,Workshop: Blockchain4SDGs, Data Research Centre – University College Fryslân, Fryslân (Dec 2017) (by invitation)

• ‘Is the Right to Science the Missing Key to Realising the Transfer and Development of Technology in the Sustainable Development Goals?’, Workshop: Financing and the Right to Science in Technology Transfer in the SDGs, University of Groningen, Groningen (Nov 2017)

• ‘Human Rights Online and Cybersecurity – Asking New, Better Questions Instead of Answering Old Questions?’, Conference: Georgia in the Spectrum of International Law, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University & the University of Groningen, Tbilisi (Nov 2017) (by invitation)

• ‘An International Bill of Rights for the States of the Arabian Peninsula?’, Conference: Islamic Law and its Implementation in Asia and the Middle East, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London (Oct 2017)

• ‘“The UN Works”: An Alternative Narrative of the UN Observances and their Impact to Framing New Agendas and Law-making”, Workshop: Calendar Propaganda of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances, Leiden University, Leiden (Jun 2017) (by invitation)

• ‘Revisiting the Gulf Cooperation States’ Commitment to the Universal Human Rights Project’,Conference:Regional Human Rights Systems in Crisis – Annual Symposium Wisconsin International Law Journal, University of Wisconsin Law School, Wisconsin (Mar 2017)

• ‘The Internet Engineering Task Force as the Guardian of Privacy Online: Developing Privacy Enabling Internet Protocols’ IETF 98, online (Mar 2017) (by invitation)

• ‘Rule of Law 2.0: Articulating Human Rights and Security Online’, Annual Research Day: The Rule of Law and Human Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent?, Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Nov 2016)

• ‘“Humanizing” the Net? How to Conceptualise the Relationship between Cyber Security and Privacy’, 12th Annual ESIL Conference, Riga (Sept 2016)

• ‘Unjust Law & the Ideal of Justice: Universality and Contemporaneity’, Greek Studies Day Event, College of Arts & Sciences in Collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in Qatar, Qatar University, Doha (May 2016) (by invitation)

• ‘Is ICANN Using Public International Law as a Panacea for Internet Governance Issues?’, ILA British Branch Spring Conference, Lancaster (Apr 2016)

• ‘“Legislation” by Technology while International Law Looks Away?: The Internet Standardisation Bodies as Guardians of Online Privacy, ESIL Research Forum: The Making of International Law, Koç University, Istanbul (Apr 2016)

• ‘“I Move Things Around Until They Look Right”: Methodological and Policy Concerns on Human Rights’ Integration’, Conference: ‘The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Towards a Users’ Perspective’, Ghent University, Ghent (Dec 2015)

• ‘Informal International Law-Making and Privacy by Design’, Amsterdam Privacy Conference – APC 2015, Amsterdam (Oct 2015)

• ‘“Digital Arms” & Regulating the Industry of Surveillance Technologies’,Institute for Global Law & Policy Workshop, Harvard Law School, Doha (Jan 2015)

• ‘Teaching Human Rights as a Core Curriculum Course at Qatar University’,Celebrating the International Day on the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Qatar University, Doha (Dec 2014)

• ‘Access to Information as an Enabler and Catalyst of Good Governance and Development – Insights from Recent Practices in the Arab Region’,World Bank, World Bank Forum on Law, Justice & Development (Oct 2014)

• ‘Cyberspace and Public Space’, Inaugural Conference: The International Society of Public Law, Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space, European University Institute, Florence (Oct 2014)

• ‘Taking a Step Forward: Applying Comparative Methodology in International Law’, 50^th Anniversary Conference of the Québec Society of Comparative Law, Québec (Oct 2011)

• ‘The Ambiguous Contribution of the Application of the Most-Favoured Protection Clauses to the Fragmentation of International Law’, 4^th International Graduate Legal Research Conference, King’s College London (Apr 2010)

Summer/Winter School Lectures

• ‘Human Rights Defenders and Academic Freedom in the Middle East’, Winter School on Academic Freedom, University of Groningen (Feb 2018 & Feb 2019) (by invitation)

Academic Stays & Fellowships

Academic Visit, National University of Rwanda (October 2022)

I taught LLB and LLM students as well as in the National Police Academy on the African Human Rights Law System and the regulation of cybersecurity in Africa

Visiting Research Scholar (July 2019)

Melbourne Law School, Institute for International Law and the Humanities

Research Fellow in International Law (nonresident) (2017-2022)

Krateros Ioannou Research Institute for International Law & International Relations, Democritus School of Law, Greece

Research Fellow at UC Berkeley – Centre for Technology, Society & Policy (2015-2016)

Project on ‘Coding Values in the Internet’s Standards? The Example of Encryption

Projects

Mando is focusing these days on the following topics:

• international law-making in the area of AI

• human rights-based design and implementation of AI decision-making, with a focus on the Global South

• international law & cybersecurity standards

• human rights assessment of the use of new technologies, including issues of encryption, and digital ID systems

She is currently working on the project “Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance” funded by the Dutch Research Council investigating the role of public values in the design of cybersecurity policy norms and standards for IoT. The project brings together the humanities, computer science and international law in order to better understand and investigate the relationship between societal values and ICT standards on products, services and processes.