Luciana is a Brazilian legal scholar and political scientist specializing in the administration of justice, access to justice, institutional performance, and systemic inequalities. She has been a permanent faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP) since 2004, teaching across the undergraduate law program and the Academic Master’s and Ph.D. Program in Law and Development. She holds both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Her empirical research examines how legal institutions operate in practice, tracking public trust, judicial accountability, and the inner workings of courts, including landmark studies on the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the National Council of Justice (CNJ). As the coordinator of FGV’s Center for Access to Justice, Process, and Conflict Resolution Methods (NAJUPMESC) and a senior researcher at the Center for Racial Justice and Law (NJRD), she focuses on people-centered justice and structural barriers within the judiciary.
She chairs the editorial board of Revista Direito GV, serves on the Advisory Council of the São Paulo State Public Defender’s Ombudsman Office, and contributes to international networks through the LawTransform initiative. A prominent academic editor, she co-edited the volume Pesquisas em Direito e Desenvolvimento (2024) and regularly presents her empirical findings on tribunal transparency globally.