Conversations
Legal-Phi ↗
Interviews with early-career legal and moral philosophers about their work, life, and academia.
Teaching & Engagement
Teaching
University of Surrey
- Public Law (2023–ongoing)
- Criminal Law (2023–ongoing)
Leeds Law School (Leeds Beckett University)
- Public Law (2022/23) [Module leader]
- Applied Criminal Law (2022/23)
- Criminal Law (2022/23)
University of Maastricht
- Legal Philosophy [Module Leader] (2019-2022)
- Legal Argumentation [Module Leader] (2019-2022)
- Substantive Criminal Law (2022)
- Migration and Citizenship (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2021-22 )
- Introduction to European Legal History (2020-22 )
- States Markets and European Integration (2019)
- Academic Writing (2018)
University of Edinburgh
- Critical Legal Thinking (2015/2016)
- Jurisprudence (2015/2016)
PUC-RIO, Brazil
- Legal Theory (Teaching Assistant, 2012)
Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
- Legal Philosophy (Teaching Assistant, 2008-9)
Guest lectures
Guest Lectures
- Sobre o Compartilhamento Ilegal da Pesquisa Acadêmica. Guest lecture, UEMG, Brazil. 15 April 2026.
- Direito, Coerção e a Ordem Social. II Semana Acadêmica Integrada UEMG Guanhães, Brazil. 26 March 2025.
- Coercion in Law. University of Notre Dame. 22 February 2024.
- Online Manipulation and Real-time Profiling. Guest Lecture at Kings College London. 8th December, 2023.
- É o Direito Coercitivo? Guest Lecture Series. Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). April, 2023.
- Coercion in Law. University of Notre Dame, London. February, 2023.
- Methodological Minimalism. Summer School on Legal Research Methodology (Universidad de Burgos). July 2022.
- A coercitividade do Direito. Open Lecture series at Aequitas (FURG)November 2021.
- Winning an Argument When you Are Wrong. Guest Lecture for the European Law Students Association: Workshop on Argumentation and Advocacy. October, 2020.
- The Role of the Judge (w/ Vinicius Faggion). Federal University of Ouro Preto, December 2019.
Public engagement
In the Shadows: Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action ↗
New Work in Philosophy · with Himani Bhakuni · 22 June 2026
Punishment, Coercion, and Justice ↗
Criminal Justice Theory Blog · with Brooke Schwind and Guilherme de Almeida · 2023
Timed Influence ↗
The Future of (Modern) Family Life and the Law · SCRIPTed · with Jiahong Chen · 2021
Contra Argumentos Não Há Fatos ↗
Teoria Impura podcast · A conversation about thought experiments in legal philosophy · 2020
Just Justice ↗
How Can We Achieve the Fair Distribution of Legal Resources? · Global Justice Academy · 2017
Translations
I have translated and reviewed translations of philosophy papers from English into Portuguese, my native language, to make them accessible to students and academics across language barriers.
Translations & reviews
- Jason Brennan and John Tomasi, “Classical Liberalism”. (Reviewer).
- Muhammad Ali Khalidi, “Three Kinds of Social Kinds”.
- Paul Boghossian, “What is a Social Construction?”.
- Amie Thomasson, “Foundations for a Social Ontology” (Reviewer).
- Crawford L. Elder, “The Place of Artifacts in Ontology”.
- John Searle, “Language and Social Ontology” (Reviewer).
- Frederick Schauer,“In Defence of Rule-Based Evidence Law – and Epistemology Too”.
- Peter van Inwagen, “Artefacts” (Reviewer).
- Jim Stone’s “Games and Family Resemblances”.
- Bernard Suits’s “What is a Game?”. (Reviewer).
- George Dickie’s “Art: Function or Procedure: Nature or Culture?”.
- Stephen Davies’ “Functional and Procedural Definitions of Art”. (Reviewer)
- Brian Bix’s “On the Dividing Line Between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism”.
- Andrei Marmor’s “The Nature of Law” (SEP entry, 2013).
- Wesley Cragg’s “Punishment” (Entry of Philosophy of Law and Encyclopedia).
Contact
For questions, supervision enquiries, collaboration, or a copy of a paper, please get in touch
l.miotto@surrey.ac.uk