~900 downloads in the first few days on PyPI – but only ~10% look like real Python environments (the rest are mirrors / bots). So roughly 20–30 genuine installs per day. For a niche CJEU empirical toolkit, I’ll take that. pypi.org/project/cjeu...
Niccolò Ridi
@niccoloridi.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Public Int'l Law @KCL_Law 🇬🇧 + Associate Director, CIGAD + empiriste @rightsnudge. Courts, networks 🕸, IOs, smart treaties.
🧵 I just released cjeu-py – an open-source Python toolkit for empirical research on the Court of Justice of the EU. pip install cjeu-py It collects structured data from CELLAR, parses judgments, extracts citations, and optionally classifies them with an LLM. Thread 👇 pypi.org/project/cjeu...
cjeu-py
Python toolkit for empirical research on the Court of Justice of the European Union
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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! ⚖️🤖 SSRN Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
👏 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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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. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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...
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on Climate Change – Belize; Bolivia; Brazil. Burkina Faso; Cameroon and Philippines
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.
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We're about to begin the 2nd day of hearings on the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion on climate change. Follow @duycks.bsky.social and @cohelongo.bsky.social for live tweets (and possibly me). Watch for yourself here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c... #ICJAO #ClimateICJAO #AOLetsGo
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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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. ouestware.gitlab.io/retina/beta/...
International legal argument / banter unfolding: we have a proof of concept. Total nodes collected: 141112 Total interactions: 403857 - Likes: 186693 total interactions - Replies: 108617 total interactions - Reposts: 108547 total interactions
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...)
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. Here's mine: - Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land. - The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
Okay, I've found most of you. Hello Invisible College of BlueSky!
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.