Sofia Bordin Rolim is a Brazilian socio-legal researcher and Ph.D. candidate in Law and Development at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP), concurrently pursuing doctoral research at the Department of Government of the University of Bergen (UiB). Supported by the Mário Henrique Simonsen Scholarship, she holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), with an exchange period in political science at Sciences Po Aix, and a Master’s degree from FGV Direito SP.
She is an active researcher at FGV’s Center for Law and Political Economy (NUDEP) and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB/CMI). Her academic inquiry centers on criminology, the sociology of violence, state repression, and the dynamics of criminalizing social movements in Brazil. Her work critically investigates how state actors utilize legal and bureaucratic tools—from surveillance tactics to protest policing—to control public demonstrations and manage civil dissent, notably analyzing the systemic legacies of the 2013 June Journeys and subsequent democratic strains.
As a contributor to international socio-legal networks, she has collaborated with the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL) and the Consortium on Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion (GRAD). Her co-authored work features in edited volumes such as Legal Resistance to Autocracy: The Global Fight to Save Democracy (Routledge, 2025), alongside peer-reviewed scholarship examining the contested meanings of democratic legitimacy and state enforcement in contemporary Latin America.