Brisa Paim is an invited Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, where she teaches courses related to the Department of Legal Philosophy, including Law and Literature, Introduction to Law, Methodology of Law, and Introduction to Contemporary Juridical Thought. She is also a researcher at UCILeR (the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), a member of the Portuguese Section of the IVR (Associação Portuguesa de Teoria do Direito, Filosofia do Direito e Filosofia Social), and a corresponding member of the Italian Society for Law and Literature (ISLL).

She is currently completing her Ph.D. 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. Her thesis, titled ‘Considerações Acerca das Aproximações Alegóricas entre Direito e Arte: na tentativa de uma conexão de autoria juridicamente compromissada’, was supervised by Professor José Manuel Aroso Linhares. She graduated in Law (2007) from the Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil).

Her main research interests are in the fields of legal philosophy and legal theory, particularly critical legal theory, methodology of law (models of adjudication, interpretation of law, the problem of rationality), visual jurisprudence, law and aesthetics, law and performance, and law and literature. She has organized and participated as a speaker in national and international conferences on these topics. Her recent publications include the essays "Criminal responsibility according to literary imagination and narrativity (and the legal “reality” as a multiverse)? Aesthetic criticism and the problems of the meaning(s), foundation(s) and modes of realization of Criminal Law". In: Faria Costa, J.; Aroso Linhares, J. M.; Antunes, M. J.; Godinho, I. F. (eds) A Culpa e o Tempo. Coimbra University Press, Coimbra, 2022, pp. 45-91. https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2231-6_3, "Images and Counter-Images of Humanitas: A Jusaesthetic Approach to the Problem of Law’s Normative Validity: Beyond the Blindness-and-Sightedness Polarity". In: Aroso Linhares, J.M., Atienza, M. (eds) Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 7. Springer, Cham, 2022, pp. 293-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14824-8_15, "New (Post-?) Textualities and the Autonomy Claim: Rethinking Law’s Quest for Normative Convergence in Dialogue with Law and Aesthetics’ Heterodoxy". International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 35-1, 2022, pp. 231-258, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-021-09844-8.