About

Judge Fabrício Bittencourt is a Brazilian Federal Judge and Associate Professor of Law at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG), where he teaches at the Master’s and Doctoral programs in Law and supervises researchers. He is a founding member of the International Institute for Justice Excellence (IIJE), former Secretary-General of the Brazilian National Council of Justice (CNJ), and has served as a Judicial Instructor at the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF).

Judge Bittencourt leads MindTheGap: Innovation in Law, a think tank and applied research initiative dedicated to closing the gap between legal doctrine, judicial practice, and citizen experience. Through MindTheGap and the UEPG LegalTechLab, which he coordinates, he develops research-based prototypes, translational legal products, process improvement frameworks, plain-language standards, and user-centered interventions designed to deliver measurable social impact.

A TEDx speaker on “The New Art of Teaching,” Judge Bittencourt has delivered lectures and engaged in international academic and institutional collaborations across five continents on innovation in law, justice administration, legal education, and the digital transformation of the judiciary. His current research investigates how justice systems can move beyond the mere digitization of procedures toward more human-centered, data-informed, transparent, and effective models of judicial governance and public service delivery.

Research areas: judicial innovation; digital justice; access to justice; court administration; legal design; visual law; artificial intelligence in the judiciary; electronic court proceedings; judicial governance; legal education; e-justice; human-centered justice.