Conference programme 10 November 2026
Opening remarks
Prof. Dr Vigita Vėbraitė, Dean of the Vilnius University Faculty of Law
Keynote address
Assoc. Prof. Dr Neringa Gaubienė — Vilnius University Faculty of Law
Presentation title to be confirmed
Panel I | Transforming Legal Education and Legal Practice
Moderator: Dr Julija Kalpokienė
Otis Felder — University of Southern California, USA (in person)
“Nomogogy: A Gap Analysis of Faculty Integration of AI-Supported Formative Feedback in Legal Writing Instruction for International LL.M. Students”
Skander Mezghani — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Blue Foxes, France (in person)
“AI literacy for whom? Article 4 of the AI Act and the statistically disqualified subject”
Ivan Fino — Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies / University of Trento, Italy (online)
“Commissioning Bespoke AI Tools for Legal Practice AI Literacy, Contracts and Civil Liability”
Fabio Cavalcante — FIRST PRIVACY (in person)
“AI Literacy and the Skilled Data Protection Lawyer”
Coffee break
Roundtable | Human Judgment, Accountability and the Future of Legal Work
Moderator: Dr Julija Kalpokienė
Dr Julija Kalpokienė — Vilnius University Faculty of Law
Presentation title to be confirmed
Dilyara Nigmatullina — University of Antwerp / Ghent University, Belgium (in person)
“Is Arbitration Different? Rethinking Party Representatives’ AI Responsibilities in International Arbitration”
Mateusz Grabarczyk — Institute of Justice in Warsaw, Poland (online)
“Beyond Appropriate Reliance: AI Literacy and the Limits of Epistemic Delegation in AI-Assisted Judging”
Lunch break
Panel II | AI Governance, Professional Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Neringa Gaubienė
Nikolas Kyriacou — Open University of Cyprus / Eurojust (online)
“Literacy as diligence: implementing amended Article 4 of the AI Act in the legal services of EU institutions and agencies”
Irena Barkane — University of Latvia, Latvia (in person)
“Operationalising the EU AI Act: Fundamental Rights Risks as a Core Pillar of the AI Literacy”
Maria Adragna — VS Digital Europe, Malta (in person)
“Human Oversight and Information Asymmetry: Developing New Skills for the Legal Profession of the Future”
Lavinia Vizzoni — University of Pisa, Italy (online)
“AI Literacy without a “Sufficient Level”? Children as a Test Case for the Revised Article 4 AI Act”
Coffee break
Panel III | AI Literacy, Fundamental Rights and Sector-Specific Risks
Moderator: To be confirmed
Maya Linck — INTERPOL Cybercrime Expert Group (online)
“Reading the Machine: AI Literacy as a Duty of Response in Prosecuting AI-Enabled Cybercrime against Children”
Andrew Walters — University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (online)
“From Rule to Setpoint: AI Literacy, Energy Regulation and the Lawyer’s Competence to Contest Modelled Decisions”
Inesa Stolper — European Humanities University, Lithuania (in person)
“Reconsidering Information Literacy in Legal Education amid Generative AI”
Vidas Krušinskas — Vilnius University, Lithuania (in person) · To be confirmed
“The Use of AI in Criminal Cases – Benefits and Risks to the Quality of Legal Reasoning of Court Judgments”
Panel IV | Building AI Literacy: From Regulation to Professional Competence
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Kristina Pranevičienė
Dr Kristina Pranevičienė — Vilnius University Faculty of Law
Presentation title to be confirmed
Dr Aleksandra Klich — affiliation to be confirmed (participation format to be confirmed)
Presentation title to be confirmed
Agata Kozolup — Independent legal / tax / AI governance practitioner (participation format to be confirmed) · To be confirmed
“From AI Literacy to Professional Competence: Operationalising Article 4 of the EU AI Act in Legal Practice”
Yuliya Khvatsik — Jönköping University, Sweden (online)
“Beyond the Polished Output: AI Literacy, Professional Judgment and a New Model of Clinical Legal Education”
Closing remarks