My research is in private international law and the use of AI in judicial decision-making as primary areas, with civil procedure, international commercial arbitration and legal informatics as secondary. I work primarily with doctrinal and comparative methods, and more recently with empirical and computational ones.
I studied US conflict of laws under Professor Linda J. Silberman at NYU School of Law, and, thereafter, spent five years practising in the field, representing clients on matters of jurisdiction, applicable law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments under the European Regulations. I have also been teaching private international law at the University of Nicosia since 2024.
My current research is in:
‘To Trust or Not to Trust? AI-Assisted Judgments and the Future of Mutual Trust under Brussels Ia’ (co-authored paper · in progress · presentation forthcoming at the 11th JPIL Conference)
This paper (co-authored with Dr Nicolas Kyriakides) has been accepted for presentation at the 11th Journal of Private International Law Conference in Zurich, in April 2027. The paper asks what becomes of mutual trust when AI-assisted judgments circulate across the Union free of exequatur.
It is the second paper in our line of research on the interaction between the existing European private international law instruments and AI. Our first paper is forthcoming in the same journal, and was presented at the JPIL’s 20th Anniversary Conference at UCL, in September 2025.
EAPIL Young Research Network 5th Research Project (co-authored book chapter · forthcoming)
An ongoing project of EAPIL’s Young Research Network, examining the rules on the law applicable to privacy and personality rights across twenty-three jurisdictions. As one of the two National Rapporteurs for Cyprus, I co-wrote the national report and presented the comparative findings at the EAPIL YRN Conference on Privacy and Personality Rights at the University of Luxembourg in March 2026. The report is forthcoming as a chapter in the project volume, edited by M Codazzi, P Eichmüller and M Pasqua and published by Edward Elgar in its EAPIL Series.
Cypriot Private International Law (commentary with five co-authors · in preparation)
I am part of a team of five authors writing the first scholarly commentary on Cypriot private international law, in Greek. Our work covers the European Regulations, the residual Cypriot common law, and arbitration. It will be published by Hippasus Publishing, and is expected in 2027.
‘The Achilles Heel of Rome II: Article 5, “Marketing”, and Digital Products’ (in progress, presented at the 2nd Riga PIL Conference)
In this work, I examine whether the product liability rule in Article 5 of Rome II, with its connecting factor of marketing, can accommodate digital products. I presented it at the 2nd Riga Private International Law Conference in June 2026. A working paper is in progress.
I came to this field through my prior work in judicial analytics. In 2023 I conducted a self-directed study of judicial analytics as a potential tool for the evaluation of judges in Cyprus, which I presented at the Procedural Law Unit’s 3rd Annual Symposium and published in the symposium volume. The study introduced judicial analytics to Cypriot legal scholarship, proposed a traffic-light framework for the reliability of judicial-performance data, and assessed the data-infrastructure, language and regulatory preconditions for an analytics-informed system of judicial evaluation in Cyprus.
My research focuses on the use of LLMs in judicial decision-making. I study:
Research programme on AI-assisted adjudication in civil justice (Procedural Law Unit · funding applications in preparation)
I lead the Procedural Law Unit’s team in designing a multi-year research programme on AI-assisted decision-making in civil procedure. I am responsible for the research, planning and outreach behind the programme’s applications to European research funding schemes, which are currently in preparation.
Language-conditioned outcome variation in LLM legal reasoning (empirical study in progress)
I came to the subject of comparative civil procedure through my background as a litigator in Cyprus and, later, through cross-qualifying as a solicitor of England and Wales.
In 2023, Cyprus replaced its colonial-era civil procedure rules with an adaptation of the English CPR. My research focuses on this reform, and specifically on:
Cypriot Civil Procedure (commentary, N Kyriakides and others eds, Nomiki Bibliothiki 2025)
This is the first scholarly commentary on the new Cypriot Civil Procedure Rules. It was a collaborative work bringing together more than twenty Cypriot academics and practitioners. I wrote chapter 14, on interim applications and remedies. The commentary is being revised as case law under the new Rules develops.
Empirical study of Cypriot procedural reform (in progress)
I am conducting an empirical study of interim applications decided under the Cypriot Civil Procedure Rules 2023, based on a dataset of first-instance decisions. The project is at the data analysis stage, and a working paper is in progress (dataset available on request).
Arbitration was the focus of my graduate studies at NYU School of Law, where I followed the Litigation and Arbitration specialisation and wrote my thesis on the enforceability of unilateral arbitration clauses under the supervision of Professor Franco Ferrari. It has also been part of my practice as a litigator in Cyprus, where I have acted in proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and for interim measures in aid of arbitration.
Given my Cypriot background, my research interests have centred on the treatment of international instruments such as the New York Convention and the UNCITRAL Model Law in small, post-colonial jurisdictions. My current work looks at:
Empirical study of arbitral award enforcement in Cyprus (in progress)
I am conducting an empirical study of recognition and enforcement applications under the New York Convention before the Cypriot courts, based on a hand-coded dataset of first-instance decisions. Data collection and analysis are complete, and a working paper is in progress (dataset available on request).
I came to this field as a practitioner, through the ordinary difficulty of finding Cypriot case law. In Cyprus, no public body publishes court judgments systematically. The Supreme Court posts a selection of recent judgments on its website, and, otherwise, access depends on CyLaw (private non-profit platform run by the Cyprus Legal Information Institute under the auspices of the Cyprus Bar Association).
My research here concerns:
Legal information policy in Cyprus (advisory work, Cyprus Bar Association · ongoing)
I conducted an independent comparative study on the legal basis, accessibility and publication channels of court judgments in the EU. The study covered all 27 EU Member States, and was aimed at identifying the gaps and risks associated with the current Cypriot framework. I was invited to present this work before the Cyprus Bar Association’s Committee on Civil Procedure Rules and Reform, and submit a policy memorandum on reform. I continue to advise the Committee on legal information policy, and to develop this line of research.