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
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.
Freezing historyCulture, history, museology, nationalist fiction, the bourgeoisie, and the impossible preservation of the transient immaterial.
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.
Cave in a hiking traili by the sea. Florianópolis, 2024.
Francesca (my Manacá tree) and her first bees. 2024.
Pico Paraná as seen from the summit of Tucum. 2024.
Rainbow lights over araucaria tree. 2023.
Cloud layer flowing through the Serra do Mar mountain range. 2024.
Sea bird at night. Florianópolis, 2024.
Pico Paraná as seen from the summit of Caratuva. 5.
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.