Brisa Paim is an Invited Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, where she teaches the practical branch of disciplines linked to the Legal Philosophy Department, namely Introduction to Law, Methodology of Law and Introduction to Contemporary Juridical Thinking, a researcher of UCILeR (the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), member of the Portuguese Section of the IVR (Associação Portuguesa de Teoria do Direito, Filosofia do Direito e Filosofia Social), and corresponding member of the Italian Society for Law and Literature (ISLL).

She is currently a PH.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and holds a Master's degree in Philosophy of Law (2009) from the same Institution, with the thesis entitled «Considerações Acerca das Aproximações Alegóricas entre Direito e Arte: na tentativa de uma conexão de autoria juridicamente compromissada», under the supervision of Professor José Manuel Aroso Linhares. She graduated in Law (2007) from the Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil).

Her main research interests are connected to the fields of legal philosophy and legal theory, especially critical legal theory, methodology of law (models of adjudication, interpretation of law, the problem of rationality), law & aesthetics, law & arts, law & performance, and law & literature, having participated, as speaker, on national and international conferences on those subjects. Her recent publications include the essays «O “Justo” dividido entre o Insight e a Razão: o Direito como a via perdida entre dois caminhos exclusivos e... opostos?» (2018), «O(s) Movimento(s) (do) Direito & Literatura no Cerco da Autorreferencialidade: Um Trajeto Polifónico e (Alguns) Possíveis Mapeamentos / The Law & Literarure Movement(s) Under the Siege of Self-Referentiality: a Polyphonic Path, and (Some) Possible Mappings» (2016), «Law’s Practical Realization and the Challenges of Narration, Translation, Performance, and Imagination: A Symbolic Reassurance of “Juridical” Singularity?» (2018).