Alexandre Travessoni Gomes Trivisonno
Full Professor of Legal Theory
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Supervises doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
ABOUT
Prof. Trivisonno has a degree in Law (1995), a master’s in law (1999) and a PhD in Law (2002), all from UFMG. Under DAAD sponsorship, he carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Saarland (Germany – 2005). In 2010-2011, 2012 and 2013, under the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), he carried out post-doctoral research at the Chair of Philosophy of Law and Public Law at the University of Kiel (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Robert Alexy. Prof. Trivisonno was a Visiting Professor at the University of Saarland (Germany – 2013) and at the University of Vechta (Germany – 2014). He carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute of Public Law, Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law at the University of Heidelberg in 2018-2019, with funding from the DAAD (Germany), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and the University of Heidelberg (Germany) where he was again a Visiting Researcher in 2020-2021. Prof. Trivisonno translated the 1st edition of Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law (1934) into Portuguese (Editora Forense Univeristária, 2021). He is dedicated to research on the following topics: Kant, Kantian theories, theories of justice, legal positivism and post-positivism, Kelsen, Hart, theory of legal argumentation, principle’s theory, Robert Alexy, the concept and application of law as well as of human and fundamental rights, public international law, constitutional theory and constitutional law.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Conducts research and supervises in the projects:
Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law: classical and disruptive perspectives (in research line 4, State, Reason and History)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
On the continuity of the doctrine of the basic norm in Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Jurisprudence – an international journal of legal and political though, v. 12, p. 1-26, 2021.
O que significa a “injustiça extrema não é direito” ? Crítica e reconstrução do argumento da injustiça no não-positivismo inclusivo de Robert Alexy. Espaço jurídico, v. 16, p. 97-122, 2016.
Legal principles, discretion and legal positivism: Does Dworkin’s criticism on Hart also aplly to Kelsen. ARSP – Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, v. 102, p. 112-127, 2016.
Kants Rechtstheorie und die Beziehung zwischen Recht und Moral. ARSP – Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, v. 97, p. 291-304, 2011.
Elementos fundamentais de uma teoria da discricionariedade no direito. 1ª ed. São Paulo: Marcial Pons, 2024. 431p .
O debate sobre a teoria dos princípios formais de Robert Alexy. 1ª ed. São Paulo: Marcial Pons, 2022. 452p .
A teoria da interpretação de Kelsen: entre razão e vontade. In: Marcelo Porciúncula. (org.), Um pensamento vivo: por Hans Kelsen e seus comentadores. 1ª ed. São Paulo: Marcial Pons, 2024, p. 403-456.
Princípios formais e conceito de direito. In: Alexandre Travessoni Gomes Trivisonno; Martin Borowski. (orgs.). O debate sobre a teoria dos princípios formais de Robert Alexy. 1ª ed. São Paulo: Marcial Pons, 2022, p. 415-452. (publicado originalmente em alemão: Die formellen Prinzipien und der Begriff des Rechts. In: Carsten Bäcker (org.), Rechtsdiskurs, Rechtsprinzipien, Rechtsbegriff – Elemente einer diskursiven Theorie fundamentaler Rechte. Symposium zum 75. Geburtstag von Robert Alexy. 1ª ed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, p. 439-451).
Der Begriff des extremen Unrechts und der subinklusive Nichtpositivismus. In: Martin Borowski. (org.), Modern German non-positivism – from Radbruch to Alexy. 1ª ed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 143-168.
Proposal for a Distinction between Legislative and Judicial Discretion Rooted in Kelsen’s and Alexy’s Theories. In: Martin Borowski, Stanley L. Paulson e Jan-Reinard Sieckmann. (orgs.), Rechtsphilosophie und Grundrechtstheorie – Robert Alexys System. 1ª ed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, p. 477-495.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Moral Philosophy
LINKS OF INTEREST
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PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS
MAILING ADDRESS
Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Avenida João Pinheiro, 100
11º andar do Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180