Geraldo Vidigal is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he lectures International Trade Law and Public International Law and coordinates the LL.M. in International Trade and Investment Law. He is Co-Chair of the "Free, Fair & Green? Governing Europe’s Trade Relations in a Changing Global Economic Order" research project of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, Theme Developer for International Economic Law at Oxford International Organizations (OUP), and Managing Editor of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer).

Dr. Vidigal publishes regularly on International Economic Law and International Dispute Settlement. He focuses his current research on the transformation of international economic law in response to pressures for it to balance the protection offered to the interests of transnational economic agents with the promotion of values and interests under the banner of sustainable development. He is the author of Adjudicating over Anarchy: Judicial Remedies, Compliance, and Enforcement in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and co-editor (with Kathleen Claussen) of The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Dr. Vidigal holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School and a Bachelor’s in Law from the University of São Paulo. He has held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute (2014-2015) and a Marie Curie Fellowship at Bocconi University, Milan (2013-2014), has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute, Geneva (2017) and a Senior Fellow at the Berlin/Potsdam Interdisciplinary Research Group "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?". 

Prior to joining UvA, Dr. Vidigal worked as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the World Trade Organization (Legal Affairs Division) and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution of the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. He integrates the WTO's indicative roster of dispute settlement panelists as well as the European Union's list of trade panelists and trade and sustainability experts for dispute settlement under international trade agreements.