Douglas Carvalho Ribeiro

Douglas Carvalho Ribeiro is a CSLS Researcher in Socio-Legal Studies in a Digital World at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. His current research explores the limits and possibilities of artificial intelligence in socio-legal research and teaching. His previous work examined how judges in Brazil engage with generative AI, tracing how courts draw boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate uses of these tools. 

Before coming to Oxford, Douglas was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and a research associate at the Chair of Science and Innovation Studies at the University of Hamburg, where he taught law and society and empirical legal research methods in German and English. He holds a doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Hamburg, with a thesis comparing the constitutional regulation of party financing in Germany and Brazil. He studied law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, including an exchange period at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Douglas is an Associate Member of St Antony’s College.