Mike Videler is a Ph.D. candidate in international law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In his doctoral research, he critically analyzes the core assumptions underlying scholarship on judicial fact-finding at the International Court of Justice. Mike argues that those assumptions - relating to truth, reason, and justice - should be rethought so as to open up new, more realistic, and productive ways of engaging with the factual in dispute settlement. His broader research interests span international dispute settlement, international law, evidence law and theory, and legal theory. Mike has taught law courses at HEC Paris since 2018. Prior to academia, he was a Lantos Fellow at the United States Congress (2017) and a Diplomacy & Diversity Fellow with Humanity in Action (2016). In 2022 and 2023, he was the rapporteur of the American Studies Program at Salzburg Global. He is a Fellow of Salzburg Global.