ABOUT

Tenured Full-Time Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Undergraduate and Graduate Programs (Master’s and Doctorate). Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Law at UFMG (2021-2023). Master’s and Doctorate in Law from the Graduate Program in Law at UFMG. Recipient of the CAPES Thesis Award in Law (2013). Visiting Researcher at the King’s College Brazil Institute (2014-2015). Fellow at the King’s College Transnational Law Summer Institute (2016). Coordinator of the Center for Transitional Justice Studies at UFMG (http://cjt.ufmg.br). Coordinator of the Executive Secretariat of the Latin American Network for Transitional Justice (2016-2017). Resident Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at UFMG (2018-2019). PPM Fapemig Researcher (2017). CNPQ Productivity Researcher (304139/2021-1). Coordinator of Constitutions – Center for Constitutionalism and Comparativism. Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Section of ICON-S (2022-2025).

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RESEARCH PROJECT

Conducts research and supervises in the projects:

Constitutionalism and Comparativism (research line 3, History, Power and Freedom)
Constitution and Democracy: Theory, History and Critical Dogmatics (research line 3, History, Power and Freedom)

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Judges and Courts Destabilizing Constitutionalism: The Brazilian Judiciary Branch’s Political and Authoritarian Character.
GERMAN LAW JOURNAL, v. 19, p. 727-768, 2018.

Legislative resistance to illiberalism in a system of coalitional presidentialism: will it work in Brazil?
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LEGISLATION, v. 9, p. 1-21, 2021.

Illiberalism in Brazil: From Constitutional Authoritarianism to Bolsonarism.
Journal of Illiberalism Studies, v. 3, p. 21-45, 2023.

International Law, Constitutions, and Electoral Content Moderation: Overcoming Supranational Failures Through Domestic Solutions.
Chicago Journal of International Law, v. 24, p. 95-114, 2023.

Constitutional Erosion in Brazil.
Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021.

Decisão e jurisdição constitucional: crítica às sentenças intermediárias, técnicas e efeitos do controle constitucionalidade em perspectiva comparada.
2. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2021.

Ditadura e responsabilização: elementos para uma justiça de transição no Brasil.
1. ed. Belo Horizonte: Arraes Editores, 2012.

The Carandiru Prison Massacre and Ongoing Military Repression in Brazil.
In: George Radics; Pablo Ciocchini. (Org.). Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World. 1ed.Londres: Palgrave McMillan, 2023, v. , p. 21-41.

From antiestablishmentarianism to Bolsonarism in Brazil.
In: András Sajó; Renata Uitz; Stephen Holmes. (Org.). Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. 1ed.Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, p. 778-795.

From antiestablishmentarianism to Bolsonarism in Brazil.
In: András Sajó; Renata Uitz; Stephen Holmes. (Org.). Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. 1ed.Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, p. 778-795.

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AREAS OF INTEREST

Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law, Judicial Review, Transitional Justice

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LINKS OF INTEREST

Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID | Website

Constituições: Centro de Constitucionalismo e Comparativismo

Centro de Estudos sobre Justiça de Transições

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PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS

Continuum UFMG | Somos UFMG

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MAILING ADDRESS

Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Avenida João Pinheiro, 100
11º andar do Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180