Brisa Paim holds a Ph.D. (2026) and a Master’s degree (2009) in Law (Legal Philosophy) from the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, and a Law degree (2007) from the Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil). Her Ph.D. thesis, under the supervision of Professor Dr. José Manuel Aroso Linhares, Phrónēsis versus Poíēsis? The Problems of Law’s Practical-Cultural Autonomy and Practical-Prudential Realisation from a Jusaesthetic Perspective, was awarded summa cum laude, unanimously.

Her positions and affiliations include Invited Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, where she teaches courses within Legal Philosophy, including Law and Literature, Introduction to Law, Methodology of Law, Introduction to Contemporary Legal Thought, and Law and Public Policies; integrated researcher at UCILeR (the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research); membership in the Portuguese Section of the IVR (Associação Portuguesa de Teoria do Direito, Filosofia do Direito e Filosofia Social); membership in the Portuguese chapter of ICON.S (International Society of Public Law); and corresponding membership in the Italian Society for Law and Literature (ISLL). Her editorial responsibilities include Book Review Editor for Springer Nature’s International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Her main research areas are legal philosophy and legal theory, legal methodology, and contemporary legal thought, with a particular focus on critical approaches. Within this framework, her work gives special prominence to law and images—including law and visuality, law and visual culture, and the probative status of images—as well as to the problems of textuality, extra-textuality, and post-textuality in the construction of legal discourse and of juridically relevant reality. Her research is situated at the crossroads of law & aesthetics, law & art, law & performance, and law & literature, and has led to several national and international publications and conferences in these fields.