Lui Wolff



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Research

I'm a researcher for the Study Centre on the Internationalisation of Punitive Power, at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).


Current research interests

  • Legalism and expressivism in the international criminal justice project

  • Juridified historiography and truth

  • Local legitimacy of international courts

  • Quantitative methods in legal research


Publications & previous research

Input to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the Environmental Crimes Draft Policy PaperEnglish. International Criminal Court OTP policy paper input. Study Centre on the Internationalisation of Punitive Power (NEIPP). Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).

2025

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Amicus curiae on the Collen Leite v. Brazil casePortuguese. Contribution to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Published on the Brazilian Journal of Criminal Science (RBCCRIM), Jul-Aug 2025. Study Centre on the Internationalisation of Punitive Power (NEIPP). Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).

2024


Contribution to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on slavery crimesEnglish. International Criminal Court OTP policy paper input. Input accepted and added to paragraphs 34, 45, 62 e 96 of the referenced ICC policy paper. Presented in GP TEC, Rio de Janeiro, 2024. Published on the UFPR Law School Journal 69(2), 2024. Study Centre on the Internationalisation of Punitive Power (NEIPP). Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).

2024


Disjointed arms: internal interoperability and doctrine in the Brazilian ArmyPortuguese. Conclusion Article (Specialisation in International Relations, Geopolitics and Defence), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

2022


How the law thinks: toward a constructivist epistemology of lawPortuguese. Translation from the English original. UFPR Law School Journal, 66(2), 213.

2021


Government recognition in international law: the Mohamed Morsi casePortuguese. Monography (LLB), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). UFPR Digital Library.

2019


Music

I'm a composer, singer and songwriter dwelling in post-rock, electronica, brazilian music (MPB), and the oxymoron which is contemporary classical music. Releases upcoming.

Art

Painting on canvas and 1-bit digital art. Check out my artstation.


Blog

Includes random shenanigans as well as political commentary and whatever else I'd been thinking about.

The fall of the WestAn overview of the increasingly aggressive Western foreign policy, from the point of view of classical geopolitics and axes of power theory

When liars believe their liesGermany ensured defeat in 1940 by believing Luftwaffe propaganda, and the West could be doing the same today.

Liquid gold: how to get into coffee, the weird wayThe basics of getting pretentious with coffee — what it is, what to expect, how to buy it, understand it, and taste it more intentionally.

Get away from the peck: why you need to learn touch typingThe many ways in which touch typing will make you a better, happier and more creative writer, researcher, or programmer.

Photography

Beauty I found over hills and under trees.

Game dev

I've developed games and tools for game development (middleware). Main areas of expertise are programming, 3D modelling and sound design.

Portfolio

Strange Winds

After crashlanding in a remote part of Antarctica, your flight crew experiences strange events. Created in 20 days for the Winter 2022 Open Game Art game jam.


Normalmap Viewer

Software to help digital artists visualize and create normal maps (light reflection maps) in 2D art resources.


Typewriter

Mechanical typewriter simulation. Fully animated. Exports written pages to file.


Polytanks

MVP developed in 2021 to implement a multiple-user simulation of single tanks. Physical simulation, fully modeled crew interaction, tank physics, suspension, and ballistics. Never officially released.

Translation

I have experience with academic, technical and literary translation.

Portfolio

How the law thinks: toward a constructivist epistemology of lawPortuguese. Translation from the English original. Published on the UFPR Law School Journal, 66(2), 213.

2021


Darkwood - Character dialogue translationEnglish to Portuguese. Translated all dialogue from the Wolfman character in the digital game Darkwood.

2020


Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent ResolveEnglish to Portuguese. Academic article describing the strategic and tactical situation of the CJTF in Syria and Iraq. Translated for an academic event.

2016


Amnesty International - Voluntary TranslatorEnglish to Portuguese, Portuguese to English. Translation of press releases, human rights reports, communiquées and internal memos for Amnesty International.

2015-2017

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Development & data skills

I've developed software tools to automate processes, and worked with large and complex data sets to create data visualization and analysis tools.

Portfolio

Quality control dashboard

Dashboard to help management find actionable improvements. Pulls data from multiple databases, corrects it, calculates scores according to company policies, and exposes it in a dashboard.


AI testing dashboard

Dashboard to calculate and show changes in AI accuracy over a number of data-detection attributes over two series of testing runs. Redacted to maintain confidentiality of corporate data.


KARDS Deck Manager Android App

App developed in Java as a final project for Harvard's CS50 MOOC general programming course. Allows the user to build and compare card decks for the KARDS digital card game, as well as simulate initial game draws and mulligans and several other analysis tools for built decks.Previously released on the Play Store. No longer updated.