Niccolò Ridi
niccoloridi.bsky.social
Niccolò Ridi
@niccoloridi.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Public Int'l Law @KCL_Law 🇬🇧 + Associate Director, CIGAD + empiriste @rightsnudge. Courts, networks 🕸, IOs, smart treaties.
Thrilled to share our new paper, "GenAI as an International Lawyer: A Case Study with the Jessup International Law Moot Court", which Damien Charlotin and myself have been working on! ⚖️🤖

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June 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows!

Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽
Digital Futures Institute announces eleven new Fellows for 2025-26
Eleven interdisciplinary projects awarded Fellowships from the Digital Futures Institute for the 2025-26 cohort.
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April 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
From Art. 38(1)(d) ICJ Statute to LLMs: how will AI reshape "the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists"? On textbooks, authority, and knowledge production in international law in the age of artificial intelligence.

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January 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Welcome to day 2 of me ignoring all my other commitments to watch the ICJ climate advisory opinion live stream. Day 2 will feature interventions by Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Philippines, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Dominica, and South Korea webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1p...
December 3, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Finally, it’s out! Our paper paper on the hidden afterlife of ISDS awards published in open access: academic.oup.com/jids/advance...
We draw on a new COPIID dataset to unveil patters of compliance with investment arbitration awards and unveil a significant number of post-award settlements…
The afterlife of ISDS awards: post-award settlements and the limits of transparency reforms
Abstract. Post-award settlements in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) remain largely unstudied. One of the reasons for this gap in knowledge is the
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November 27, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Mapping the Invisible College of IL + the neighbouring law professoriate more generally. An interactive visualization of a "friends of friends" network (with some pruning, lest it become unwieldy). Takes a while to load, will likely won't open on mobile.

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November 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM
International legal argument / banter unfolding: we have a proof of concept.

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November 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
1) Unpacking international legal argument by leveraging computational techniques and, more recently, GenAI;
2) Mapping the 'invisible college' of international lawyers and its dynamics in various ways, including scraping Bluesky. (Not technically working on it, but the code is running...)
November 16, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Okay, I've found most of you. Hello Invisible College of BlueSky!
November 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Hello again. I am still trying to find my way around here. Some of you I know, some I do not. But I am investigating. Will report back.
November 14, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Hello.
October 19, 2023 at 11:33 AM