I would like to thank Xiaoxia Shi for being an amazing and careful editor. Ed Vytlacil, Xiaohong Chen, Yusuke Narita and John Eric Humphreys were invaluable during the entire Ph.D. and always provided kind and useful advice.

I also thank the institutional support of ABJ (abj.org.br). Their work is incredible and they have amazing people working to understand and improve the Brazilian Judiciary. My friends Ramon and Renato were extremely kind with their time and taught me a lot about Brazilian Law.