Thomas da Rosa de Bustamante

Associate Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Law
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow

tbustamante@ufmg.br

Supervises doctoral dissertations and master’s thesis

ABOUT

Thomas Bustamante has a Law Degree from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2000), a Research Master Degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2003), and a PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2007), with a research period at the University of Edinburgh, UK, with a CAPES scholarship. He is currently Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he has been Head of the Program of Research Studies (Masters and PhD) in Law, from 2019 to 2021. Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK, from 2008 to 2010, and at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2004 to 2008). He has coordinated research projects financed by the CNPQ, FAPEMIG, CAPES Foundation, and the National Council of Justice. He is a senior research productivity fellow of CNPq. He has been funded by the Minas Gerais Scholar Program of FAPEMIG. He has made funded research visits (Fellowships) at the University of São Paulo (2015-2016), with a grant from FAPESP Foundation, New York University, as a Global Research Fellow funded by the Fulbright Commission (USA) program of Visiting Scholars (2020-2021), and at King’s College London (UK) (2021-2022) with funding from the CAPES Foundation. He has experience in Law, with emphasis on Legal Philosophy, but also in Legal Theory, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Theories of Legal Argumentation, Legal Hermeneutics and Constitutional Law.

RESEARCH PROJECT

Conducts research and supervises in the projects:

Law, Political Morality, Practical Rationality and Normativity (research line 1, Power, Citizenship and Development in the Democratic Rule of Law)
Constitutionalism and Comparativism (research line 3, History, Power and Freedom)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Taking Dworkin’s Legal Monism Seriously.
European Journal of International Law, v. 35, p.

New Essays on the Fish-Dworkin Debate.
Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2023, 464p.

Dworkin’s interpretivism, legal monism, and the threat of ‘authoritarian’ international law.
Transnational Legal Theory, v. 14, p. 117-156.

Between unity and incommensurability: Dworkin and Raz on moral and ethical values.
Jurisprudence-An International Journal of Legal And Political Thought, v. 13, p. 169-193.

Is Protestant Interpretation an Acceptable Attitude Toward Normative Social Practices? An Analysis of Dworkin and Postema.
The American Journal of Jurisprudence, v. 66, n1, pp. 1-25.

Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy – Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J Postema.
Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020.

Law, Moral Facts and Interpretation: A Dworkinian Response to Mark Greenberg’s Moral Impact Theory of Law.
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, v. 32, p. 5-43.

Revisiting Dworkin?s Philosophy of International Law: Could the Hedgehog Have Done It Any Other Way?
Canadian Journal Of Law And Jurisprudence, v. 30, p. 259-285.

Why do legal philosophers (perhaps correctly) insist on moral objectivity while dismissing metaethical inquiry?
In: Gonzalo Villa-Rosas; Jorge Fabra-Zamora. (Org.). Objectivity in Jurisprudence, Legal Interpretation and Practical Reasoning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 232-251.

Brazil: COVID-19, Illiberal Politics and the Rule of Law.
In: Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald. (Org.). Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. New York: Routledge, p. 225-236.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, International Law.

LINKS OF INTEREST

Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID

Social Science Research Network

PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS

Continuum UFMG | Somos UFMG

MAILING ADDRESS

Rua Pilar 143, apt. 202
Grajaú, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, 30431-118