Law and Cultural Techniques in Brazil II

Ricardo Spindola Diniz will report and discuss recent developments in the history and theory of cultural techniques and law in Brazil.

Ricardo Spindola Diniz is Professor at the Law School of Arraias of the Federal University of Tocantins. He researches comparative constitutional history, legal hermeneutics (and the history thereof), and law and religion, grafting together in his approach thereto phenomenology (Hans Blumenberg) and media theory/history (Cornelia Vismann). He teaches philosophy of law, legal hermeneutics, and civil procedure. Previously, he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Department III - Multidisciplinary Legal Theory from April to September 2024. He was a doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg from September 2020 to March 2024. Prof. Spindola Diniz did research stays at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Hamburg (2022-2023) and the Max Planck Institute für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (2023-2024). He has a PhD in Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law from the University of São Paulo (2023) and a Master of Science in Law from the Law School of the University of Brasilia (2018). He graduated in Law from the Law School of the Federal University of Goiás (2016).” (from the website of Universidade Federal do Tocantins)