Maíra Rocha Machado

Maíra Rocha Machado has been an Associated Professor at Getulio Vargas Law School since 2011. She joined the institution in 2004 as Professor of Law. She teaches courses on Methodology of Legal Research at the Law and Development Master and Doctorate Program, as well as Criminal Law and Sociology of Law. Her current research focuses on theoretical and empirical challenges of the field of “law and state violence”. She works with the Brazilian Research Network of Empirical Legal Studies (reedpesquisa.org) since its foundation and has been cohead of the empirical legal studies course. She has recently edited the book “Criminal Justice among powers” (Academica Livre, 2020) and co-edited “Modern Penal Rationality: theoretical approaches and empirical explorations from the South” (Almedina, 2020), both in Portuguese. Recent papers in English include “Covid-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice” (Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 54(5), Sept-Oct, 2020 – wirh Natalia Vasconcelos and Daniel Wang); “Prisoners' rights” (Book chapter -The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America - Oxford University Press, 2022) and “COVID-19 and Prisons in Latin America: the cases of Brazil and Colombia” (Human and social costs of COVID-19 responses and policies - Global Health and Justice Partnership of Yale Law, 2022 -  https://live-yale-law.pantheonsite.io/yls-today/news/covid-19-and-prisons-latin-america (With Natalia Vasconcelos, Libardo Ariza e Mario Torres).

All her published work is available at fgv.academia.edu/mairamachado.