Education CV
Education
- PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2022-present).
- Cambridge International & Newnham Kishor-Rhodes full scholarship (2022-2025).
- Exchange semester, Harvard Law School (Fall 2024).
- Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Spring 2024).
- LL.M in International Business Law (Distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science (2019).
- Master in Private Law, Catholic University of Portugal (2020).
- Professor Doutor Baptista Machado award for the best master's dissertation.
- Bachelor of Laws, Catholic University of Portugal (2017).
- Dean's Merit Scholarship, each year.
- Erasmus exchange semester, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Fall 2016).
Experience
- Fellow, Information Law Society Center (Università degli studi di Milano) (2023/2025).
- Conference Convenor, 12th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal (2023).
- Research Assistant, Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence Project, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2022-2023).
- Law Admissions Interviewer, Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2022 and 2024).
- Admitted to the Portuguese Lawyer's Bar. Internship at the law firms Cerqueira Gomes & Associados, RL (2017-2018), and PLMJ (2019-2021).
- Teaching Assistant: Tort Law and Foundations of Private Law (2020-2022), Catholic University of Portugal.
Fields of research
Contract Law; Tort Law; Artificial Intelligence.
Supervisors
Supervisor: Professor Felix Steffek
Adviser: Dr Måns Magnusson (Uppsala University)
Representative Publications
- Xie, H., Steffek, F., Ribeiro de Faria, J., Carter, C. & Rutherford, J. (2024). The CLC-UKET Dataset: Benchmarking Case Outcome Prediction for the UK Employment Tribunal. Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024.
- Ribeiro de Faria, J., Steffek, F. & Xie, H. (2024). Automatic Information Extraction From Employment Tribunal Judgements Using Large Language Models. Artificial Intelligence and Law (forthcoming).
- Ribeiro de Faria, J. (2024). The legal nature of blockchain wills in Europe. In Lobo Xavier, R., Sousa e Silva, N., & Rosas, M. Estate, Succession and Autonomy: new assets and new trends (pp. 304-348). Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora.
- Ribeiro de Faria, J. (2023). A teoria das esferas do risco. A utilização de agentes eletrónicos no cumprimento dos contratos e a proposta de Diretiva de 28.09.2022 (The theory of the spheres of risk. The use of electronic agents in the performance of contracts and the proposal of Directive of 28.09.2022 (translated)), Revista de Direito Civil, 8 (1), 77-103.
- Ribeiro de Faria, J. (2020). O regime jurídico da formação e do (não)-cumprimento dos contratos inteligentes (os smart contracts) (The legal regime of formation and (non)performance of 'smart contracts’ (translated)). Revista de Direito Civil, 5 (3-4), 723-764.