Juliana Da Cunha Mota

Juliana is a Lecturer in Law. She conducted her DPhil research at the University of Oxford, where she investigated how data protection and privacy rights in the age of surveillance capitalism. She sought to understand whether the frameworks of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union are still adequate to protect rights in light of the new economic imperative of data aggregation. Her research employed empirical methods (systematic content analysis) to investigate the working practices of these courts and how they contribute to shaping and reshaping informational privacy rights in Europe. 

Prior to joining Kent, Juliana was a Digital Policy Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, where she investigated European digital policies under two projects: (i) InfoLEAD (Information and Media Literacy for Judges and Policymakers); and (ii) ReMeD (Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age). At ReMeD, Juliana investigated the governance of fact-checkers in Europe and worldwide. At InfoLEAD, she designed an executive media literacy course for judges and policy makers. 

On a professional level, Juliana acted as a law clerk for criminal judges in São Paulo, Brazil. She also researched m’health, encryption, and data protection at Privacidade Brazil, a think tank affiliated with Internet Lab, founded by Ford Foundation. After being admitted to the Brazilian Bar in 2016, she acted as a solicitor in the privacy/data protection practice of Dias Carneiro Advogados, a Brazilian law firm.

She is a great mooting enthusiast, having participated in several competitions. She regularly judges the preliminary and advanced rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition and the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition, since 2020.  

She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge (2018) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo (2016).

Juliana's research interests lie at the intersection of law and technology, particularly, privacy, data protection, AI, content moderation, freedom of expression, technology regulation, digital policies, and human rights in the digital environment in general.     

Juliana welcomes opportunities to work with students on themes broadly relating to law & technology and human rights law.

Member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP).