Research

My current research is developed along three dimensions. 

In the theoretical dimension, I investigate how the law offers both a constraint and a tool for regulation, with special attention to how technical concepts are construed (or side-stepped) in regulatory design.

In the methodological dimension, I propose a need to focus on the practices of regulators and regulated actors in technology regulation, with special attention to the decisions they make when applying technology-neutral regulation.

In the doctrinal dimension, I deploy the theoretical and methodological insights mentioned above to examine the legal framework governing artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in the EU.

• Exploring explainable AI in the tax domain (with Lukasz Gorski and others), Artificial Intelligence and Law (2024)

• ‘The Brussels Side-Effect: How the AI Act Can Reduce the Global Reach of EU Policy’ (with Anca Radu), German Law Journal (2024)

• Automated Uncertainty: A Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Decisions, 16(3) Review of European Administrative Law (2023)

• Contribuições e Limites da Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados para a Regulação da Inteligência Artificial no Brasil [Artificial intelligence regulation in Brazil: the contribution and limits of the General Data Protection Law] (with Juliano Maranhão), Revista Direito Público (2023)

• Regulation by Design and the Governance of Technological Futures’, 14(4) European Journal of Risk Regulation (2023)

• Reclaiming Transparency: Contesting the Logics of Secrecy within the AI Act (with Madalina Busuioc and Deirdre Curtin), European Law Open (2023)

• Towards eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Tax Law: The Need for a Minimum Legal Standard’ (with Blazej Kuzniacki and others), World Tax Journal (2022)

• Inteligência artificial aplicada ao direito e o direito da inteligência artificial [Legal artificial intelligence and the law of artificial intelligence] (with Juliano Maranhão and Juliana Abrusio Florêncio), Suprema (2021)

• Voice-based diagnosis of covid-19: ethical and legal challenges (with Juliano Maranhão), International Data Privacy Law (2021)

• Responsabilidade civil extracontratual e a inteligência artificial [Tort Liability and Artificial Intelligence], Revista Acadêmica Arcadas (2020)

• Competition in and through Artificial Intelligence (with Juliano Maranhão and Giovanni Sartor) in Research Handbook on Competition and Technology (Pier Luigi Parcu and others (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing forthcoming 2024)

• Chapters in General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-article commentary (Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann and others (eds), Nomos/Hart/Beck 2023):

  • Article 6 Para. 1. Content Personalisation (with Juliano Maranhão and Giovanni Sartor)

  • Article 4 Para. 5. Pseudonymisation (with Juliano Maranhão and Giovanni Sartor)

  • Article 25. Data protection by design and by default (with Juliano Maranhão and Giovanni Sartor)

• Os Limites Da Concorrência Frente à Inteligência Artificial [The Limits of Competition in the Face of Artificial Intelligence] (with Juliano Maranhão and Miguel Garzeri Freire) in A aplicação do direito antitruste em ecossistemas digitais: desafios e propostas (Paula Farani de Azevedo and Nicolo Zingales (eds), FGV Direito Rio 2022)

• Opportunities and Limits of European Social Network Regulation in Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit im 21 Jahrhundert - zur Macht des Digitalen (Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Michael Westland, and Ricardo Campos (eds), Nomos 2022)

• Requirements for Tax XAI under Constitutional Principles and Human Rights (with Blazej Kuzniacki, Kamil Tylinski, and Lukasz Gorski) in Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems (Davide Calvaresi and others (eds), Springer 2022)

• Data Protection and Judicial Automation (with Maria Dymitruk) in Research Handbook on EU Data Protection (Eleni Kosta and Ronald Leenes (eds),  Edward Elgar Publishing 2022)

• ‘Data Protection by Design e Data Protection by Default. Visão Teórica e Prática à Luz Da LGPD e Do GDPR.’ [Data Protection by Design and Data Protection by Default. Theoretical and Practical Views in Light of the LGPD and the GDPR.] (with Caio César Carvalho Lima and Juliano Maranhão) in Legal Innovation: O Futuro do Direito e o Direito do Futuro (Rony Vainzof and others (eds), Thomson Reuters Brasil 2022)

• Juliano Maranhão and others, Concepções de Explicação e Do Direito à Explicação de Decisões Automatizadas [Conceptions of Explanation and the Right to an Explanation of Automated Decisions] (with Juliano Maranhão and Fabio Gagliardi Cozman) in Inteligência Artificial: Sociedade, Economia e Estado (Rony Vainzof and Andriei Gutierrez (eds),  Thomson Reuters Brasil 2021)

• Inteligência Artificial no Setor de Saúde: Ética e Proteção de Dados [Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Ethics and Data Protection] (with Juliano Maranhão) in LGPD na Saúde (Analluza Bolivar Dallari and Gustavo Ferraz de Campos Monaco (eds), Thomson Reuters, Revista dos Tribunais 2021)

• Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Two Perspectives (with Juliano Maranhão and Juliana Abrusio Florêncio)

  • Portuguese version in Inteligência Artificial: Avanços e Tendências (Fabio Gagliardi Cozman and others (eds), IEA-USP 2021)

  • Spanish version: La Inteligencia Artificial y El Derecho: Dos Perspectivas, in Derecho y nuevas tecnologías (Gonzalo Ana Dobratinich (ed), La Ley 2021)

• Human Intervention in Automated Decision-Making: Toward the Construction of Contestable Systems, in Proceedings of ICAIL 2019 (Montreal, Canada). 

• Inteligência Artificial: Perspectivas a partir da Filosofia do Direito [Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Legal Philosophy], in Proceedings of SEPECH 2018 (Londrina, Brazil). 

• Ethical design of social simulations (with Romis Attux), in Proceedings of WASHES 2018 (Natal, Brazil).

• AI, Law, and Otter Things (2021-present)

• The problem of automated uncertainty in automated decisions, The Digital Constitutionalist (4 October 2023)

• What Do We Talk about When We Talk about AI Regulation?, RAILS - Blog (9 April 2023)

• A robot and a moderator walk into a bar: Humour as a problem for automated content moderation (with Renata Vaz Shimbo), The Digital Constitutionalist (17 February 2022)

• The Final Frontier: Science fiction at the service of the law, The Digital Constitutionalist (23 January 2022)

• The EU AI Act: A Medley of Product Safety and Fundamental Rights? (lead author, with Nicolas Petit). Robert Schuman Centre Working Paper 2023/59

• Regulating Machine Learning by Design, TechREG Chronicle (2023)

• Some Remarks on the Ethical Relevance of Leaky Abstractions, extended abstract in Proceedings of ETHICOMP 2021

• Un-Owned Data: Interoperable EU Borders and Transitioning Rights Post Covid-19. Model Rules (with Deirdre Curtin and others). Report, November 2021

• A techno-legal approach to the life cycle of artificial intelligence systems. Thesis for the LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws, European University Institute, May 2021

• Direito à revisão de decisões automatizadas [The Right to a Review of Automated Decisions]. LLB (Honours) Thesis, University of São Paulo, 2020

• Acesso a Dados de Processos Judiciais no Brasil [Access to Judicial Case Data in Brazil] (with Bruna Trevelin and others). Report for the National Council of Justice, 2020

• Estratégia Nacional de Inteligência Artificial. Contribuições Lawgorithm/NJ-OIC-IEA [National AI Strategy. Contributions from Lawgorithm/NJ-OIC-IEA] (with Juliano Maranhão and others). Report, March 2020

• Simulação de fenômenos sociais: aspectos epistemológicos e metodológicos [Simulation of Social Phenomena: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects]. MSc thesis in Electrical Engineering, University of Campinas, 2018

• Two Dogmas of Technology-Neutral Regulation (last revised 14 October 2024)

• Governing the Black Box of Artificial Intelligence (last revised 9 November 2023)

• The EU AI Act: A Medley of Product Safety and Fundamental Rights? (lead author, with Nicolas Petit). Robert Schuman Centre Working Paper 2023/59