Forschungsinteressen
- Global history and micro-history
- Legal History methods and sources
- Legal Theory and Sociology of Law
- Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolutions
- Multinormativity in the Amazon
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Vita
Bruno Rodrigues de Lima studied law and history in Salvador, Brasilia, and Frankfurt am Main. In 2014, he received his Law degree from the State University of Bahia and became a lawyer accredited by the Brazilian Bar. After practicing law and representing clients before the Supreme Court, he pursued an LL.M. at the University of Brasilia. In 2022, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Legal History (summa cum laude) from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University for his thesis on the legal knowledge of the former enslaved person and self-trained lawyer Luiz Gama (1831–1882). In the same year, Lima earned the Walter Kolb Prize, the most prestigious dissertation prize conferred by both Goethe University and the Frankfurt City Hall. In 2023, he received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, recognizing his outstanding scientific contributions "for the research on the legal history of Brazil and the history of the abolition of slavery."
He also completed a second doctorate in Sociology jointly at the University of Brasília and the University of Flensburg.
In 2024, he received the Jabuti Prize for the "Book of the Year" in law published in Brazil and began a visiting professorship at FGV Sao Paulo Law School. In recent years, his work has gained considerable attention from various media outlets, including The Economist, The Guardian, BBC News, Deutsche Welle and Le Figaro. In Brazil, his research has been extensively covered by major newspapers, magazines, and TV channels, such as Folha de S. Paulo, TV Bandeirantes, Revista Veja, and O Globo. A scientific profile of Bruno Lima and his award-winning thesis is available in the Max Planck Forschung.