What is Legiscraft?
Legiscraft is a public policy laboratory dedicated to developing normative prototypes for emerging fields marked by institutional vacuums or regulatory deficits .
Created in Porto Alegre and led by parliamentary advisors, we have a team that understands the inner workings, limitations, and opportunities of the political world.
Connecting with practice allows us to transform research, debate, and institutional experimentation into concrete legislative initiatives, ready to enter the public debate.
The laboratory connects the Legislative branch to academia and civil society, bringing together public actors, researchers, and other professionals around gray areas of public policy .
Each year, we select critical fields and explore them in depth through targeted research, structured debate, and normative prototyping.
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The result is a draft legislation designed to be legally sound, politically viable, and empirically informed—ready to be tested in the actual decision-making process.
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By operating in areas where there are no ready-made answers, and under the pressure of delivering a complex proposal in less than a year, the laboratory replicates the conditions of real legislative work, where, under time constraints and imperfect information, analytical rigor and political viability must coexist in the face of the high social costs of inaction.
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This makes Legiscraft not only a space for producing normative solutions, but also a qualified training environment for those who work — or intend to work — in the formulation of public policies.
Legiscraft is led by Conrado Klöckner, a lawyer with a master's degree in Public Administration, specializing in the core of the Brazilian legislative process and focusing on institutional design for fields where state power operates under high uncertainty and low control .
Throughout his time in Parliament, Conrado led and participated in the formulation and negotiation of initiatives in areas such as the oversight of intelligence activities, the use of body cameras by police forces, the regulation of data centers, and the protection of rights of outsourced workers in the public sector—fields marked by strong power asymmetry, institutional risk, and the absence of consolidated regulatory arrangements.
His performance combines the ability to structure complex legal systems with experience in negotiation and political viability, allowing him to transform highly contested public issues into operational regulatory proposals. This profile underpins both his leadership in Parliament and the strategic direction of Legiscraft.
As director, Conrado sets the laboratory's agenda, coordinates projects, and connects Legiscraft with the Legislative branch, universities, and national and international partners.
Institutional contact: director@legiscraft.org
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