ABOUT

Associate Professor at the UFMG Law School, in the Department of Labour Law and Introduction to the Study of Law. CNPq Research Productivity Fellow. Research and Outreach Director of the Polos de Cidadania Program. Member of the UFMG Transdisciplinary Research Network on Children, Adolescents and Young People, of the UFMG Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT-UFMG). Postdoctoral Fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a CNPq scholarship. Graduated in Law (UFMG 1996), Master’s Degree in Social and Political Philosophy (UFMG 2000) and Doctorate in Constitutional Law (UFMG 2006). She was a Resident Professor (August 2016 to July 2017) and a Member of the Steering Committee (August 2018 to August 2022) at IEAT-UFMG. She was Deputy Coordinator (2011-2013) and Coordinator (2013-2015) of the Postgraduate Law Programme at UFMG. My main theoretical interests are in the areas of Legal Sociology, Philosophy and Theory of Law, working mainly on the following themes: time and space in law, civil disobedience, urban and socio-environmental conflicts, intersecting with their class, race, gender, and spatial developments. These researches analyse the structural historical persistence of inequalities reflected in these conflicts. The research also addresses legal education, legal research, knowledge production, epistemology and methodologies capable of dismantling the scientific foundations of an indolent law; coloniality of knowledge, being and power; decolonisation; transdisciplinarity and performativity.

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RESEARCH PROJECT

Conducts research and supervises in the projects:

Sociospatial Justice, Right to the City and Territory (research Line 2, Human Rights and the Democratic Rule of Law)
Gender, Sexuality and Law (research Line 3, History, Power and Freedom)

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Deaths in the Mud.
In: The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death. Londres: Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003304593/chapters/10.4324/9781003304593-6

Expanding the boundaries of social welfare law.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FAMILY LAW, v.44, p.196-208, 2023.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2023.2206217

Haiti as an Underground Memory of Modern Revolution and Constitutionalism.
DIREITO & PRAXIS, v. 14, p. 165-190, 2023.
https://www.scielo.br/j/rdp/a/4hSh3Ss4QmX3kmq8kJz7R3Q/?format=pdf&lang=en

Civil Disobedience, Legal, Moral, and Political Dimensions.
In: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Springer, 2022.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_473-1#editor-information

Re-imagining Cities as Spaces of Care: a perspective from Street Homelessness.
In: Spaces of Care: New York, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509929665.ch-006

Liberdades Comunicativas. 2a ed.
Belo Horizonte: Conhecimento, 2022.

Nas Entranhas do Direito: métodos e escritas do corpo.
Belo Horizonte: Expert, 2022.
https://experteditora.com.br/nas-entranhas-do-direito-metodos-e-escritas-do-corpo/

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AREAS OF INTEREST

Legal Sociology, Philosophy and Theory of Law, mainly in the themes: time and space in law, civil disobedience, urban and socio-environmental conflicts, intersected with their class, racial, gender and spatial consequences. Legal education, legal research, knowledge production, epistemology and methodologies capable of dismantling the scientific bases of an indolent law; coloniality of knowledge, being and power; decolonization; transdisciplinarity and performativity.

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LINKS OF INTEREST

Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID | Polos

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PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS

Continuum UFMG | Somos UFMG 

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MAILING ADDRESS

Programa Pólos de Cidadania
Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Av. João Pinheiro, 100
6º Andar, Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180