Empirical Dialogue is a project dedicated to disseminating articles with the greatest impact and reach published in the Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. In this first edition, we spoke with Bárbara Lupetti, author of the article “The Belief in the Principle (or Myth) of Judicial Impartiality,” published in 2020. A professor at the Faculty of Law of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and at Veiga de Almeida University (UVA), as well as a researcher at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Conflict Management (InEAC), her research empirically investigates conflict resolution and judicial practices from both legal and anthropological perspectives. In this interview, she discusses her academic trajectory, the importance of Professor Roberto Kant de Lima, and the intersections between her research and her practice as a lawyer. She also addresses the main findings of her doctoral research, which later developed into the published article, her strategies for gaining access to the legal actors she interviewed, and her reflections on judicial impartiality as a principle, a myth, and a practice. Finally, she comments on the main challenges and advances in empirical research in law.