Lodovica Raparelli is Head of Research and Projects for the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice. She is a lawyer specialised in Public International Law, International Arbitration, and Legal Innovation, and a Ph.D. researcher at King’s College London. She holds an LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution from King’s College London and has several years of experience working in leading international law firms in London and Milan, where she focused on international dispute resolution, particularly investor-State and commercial arbitration, public international law, environmental law, and human rights. She has also served as a consultant to a barrister in a prominent set of chambers in London.

In recent years, Lodovica has expanded her work into the fields of legal design and legal innovation, with a particular focus on improving access to justice. Legal design is a human-centred approach to law that uses design thinking to make legal systems more accessible, understandable, and democratic—especially for individuals who may often feel excluded from traditional legal processes.

She has been invited to speak at numerous international events and academic forums on legal design and access to justice, including at the Conference on Access to Justice at UNSW Sydney, the International Legal Ethics Conference in Amsterdam, the LegalTechTalk in London, a Lecture on Public Law and Innovation at the University of Bologna, and a module on ADR and Innovation at the University of Milan “La Statale”.

She teaches Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and previously taught at King’s College London.

Lodovica is also Project Manager and Junior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution (CIGAD), which brings together academics, policymakers, and practitioners to address global challenges through international law and dispute resolution.

She is bilingual in English and Italian, speaks Spanish, and is admitted to the Italian Bar.