WCLR
WCLR Brasília 2026

AI, Law and the Public Sector

Seminar of the Workshop on Computational Legal Reasoning at the School of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union, Brasília

Date
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Venue
Auditorium of the School of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union (ESAGU)
Registration
Free, with a voucher code
Register
Lectures
Michael A. Livermore
16:30

AI, Law & Public Sector

The Law-as-Data Paradigm

Michael A. Livermore

University of Virginia School of Law

Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and a leading scholar in the use of computational tools to study the law and legal institutions. Co-editor, with Daniel Rockmore, of Law as Data (Santa Fe Institute Press, 2019).

Adam R. Pah
10:45

SCALES OKN

Bringing Systematic Data Analysis and AI into the Courts

Adam R. Pah

Georgia State University; SCALES OKN

Assistant Dean for Research and Digital Innovations and Clinical Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. He leads SCALES OKN, which brings computational social science and AI to the study of courts and widens access to judicial data.

Ivan César Ribeiro
15:45

AI Governance and Auditing

Legal and Institutional Arrangements and the Measurement Problem

Ivan César Ribeiro

CEOE / Unifesp; Society for Empirical Legal Studies

Professor of Law and Public Policy at Unifesp, coordinator of CEOE and convener of WCLR. In 1993 he organised, at the University of São Paulo Law School, the first of eight editions of the seminar Informática Jurídica: Da Teoria à Prática. WCLR picks up that thread thirty-three years later.

The seminar

The Workshop on Computational Legal Reasoning (WCLR) is a series of working sessions between those who build artificial intelligence systems for the law and those who study them. The 2026 editions are convened by the Centro de Estudos da Ordem Econômica at Unifesp (CEOE), with the support of Instituto CELS Latinoamérica, the organiser of CELS Global Brazil. After São Paulo, Palo Alto and Chicago, the series comes to Brasília, to the School of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union, and for the first time opens a seminar to civil servants, public managers, researchers and members of the legal professions.

The meeting brings together those who build AI systems in the public sector and those who study them, around three axes, namely access to judicial and administrative data, the governance and evaluation of AI systems, and the law-as-data paradigm.

Programme

Thursday, December 3, 2026 · Auditorium of the School of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union (ESAGU)

  1. 08:00 to 08:30
    Welcome coffee and check-in
  2. 08:30 to 09:00
    Official opening
    • Authorities of the AGU and ESAGU
    • Diogo de Prince Mendonça (CEOE / Unifesp), chair of the seminar
  3. 09:00 to 10:30
    Roundtable 1
    Data as Public Infrastructure
    • Julia dos Santos Drummond (Ouvidoria-Geral da Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo)
    • Bruno da Cunha de Oliveira (Insper)
    • Emiliano Vitaliani (Futuros)
    • Representative of the National Council of Justice (CNJ)
    In Portuguese
  4. 10:30 to 10:45
    Break
  5. 10:45 to 11:45
    Lecture
    SCALES OKN
    Bringing Systematic Data Analysis and AI into the Courts
    • Adam R. Pah (Georgia State University; SCALES OKN)
    In English, with simultaneous interpretation into Portuguese
  6. 11:45 to 13:30
    Lunch (on your own)
  7. 13:30 to 15:00
    Roundtable 2
    AI, Law and Evidence-Based Policy
    • Gabrielle Bezerra Sales Sarlet (Insper)
    • Nubia Regina Ventura (ICMC/USP)
    • Caio Castelliano de Vasconcelos (Secretaria de Governança e Gestão Estratégica, AGU)
    • Lilian Cintra de Melo (Advogada e Colunista do UOL)
    In Portuguese
  8. 15:00 to 15:45
    Break
  9. 15:45 to 16:30
    Lecture
    AI Governance and Auditing
    Legal and Institutional Arrangements and the Measurement Problem
    • Ivan César Ribeiro (CEOE / Unifesp; Society for Empirical Legal Studies)
    In English, with simultaneous interpretation into Portuguese
  10. 16:30 to 17:30
    Lecture
    AI, Law & Public Sector
    The Law-as-Data Paradigm
    • Michael A. Livermore (University of Virginia School of Law)
    • Chair, Diogo de Prince Mendonça (CEOE / Unifesp)
    In English, with simultaneous interpretation into Portuguese
  11. 17:30 to 18:00
    Closing and launch of the CEOE reports

Programme subject to change. On the following day, December 4, the WCLR workshop brings together, in a closed, invitation-only session, managers of large-scale computational projects in the judiciary and the public administration.

Institutions

Organiser

Centro de Estudos da Ordem Econômica at the Federal University of São Paulo (CEOE / Unifesp), which convenes the WCLR series.

Support

Instituto CELS Latinoamérica, the organiser of CELS Global Brazil, whose programme gave birth to WCLR in June 2026.

Funding

Fund for the Defence of Diffuse Rights (FDD), through the National Consumer Secretariat (SENACON / Ministry of Justice and Public Security), Decentralised Execution Agreement no. 02/2020.

The series is also supported by CNPq and CAPES.

Host. School of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union (ESAGU), which provides the venues and logistical support for the seminar and the workshop.

Registration

Registration is free and requires the voucher code sent with your invitation. If you received this address without a code, please write to secretariat@celsbrazil.org.br.

1 Voucher

Registration is free and uses the code you received with your invitation.

2 Identification and contact

If left blank, we use your first and last names.

Brazilian taxpayer number, required to enter the AGU building.

3 Organisation

4 AI and law in your organisation

Your answers help shape the debate and, in aggregate and anonymous form, feed CEOE research on the use of AI in the public sector.

Does your organisation develop or use artificial intelligence systems in legal work? *

List the names, separated by commas, with a few words on each if you wish (for example, "Victor, classification of appeals").

What stage is the main system at? *
For what purposes? * (tick all that apply)
Are these systems evaluated for performance, bias or impact? *
Do staff use generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, among others) at work? *
Does the organisation have a policy, internal rule or committee on the use of AI? *
What is your relationship with the subject? *

5 Consent

Fields marked with * are required.