Dr. Rafael Suguimoto Herculano

Researcher

Main Focus

  • History of legal doctrine (Brazil, Germany, France: 19th and 20th centuries)
  • History of private and public law
  • Legal theory
  • Legal philosophy

Project

Curriculum Vitae

Since Sept 2021
Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Oct 2015 – Dec 2020
PhD in Law, specialty: Legal History
University of Bordeaux (in double degree with the University of São Paulo)
Pessac, France

Oct 2015 – Dec 2020
PhD in Law, specialty: Philosophy and General Theory of Law
University of São Paulo (in double degree with the University of Bordeaux)
São Paulo, Brazil

Title: The power of law: doctrine in the age of legal scientism - comparative historical approaches between France and Brazil

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015
Master of Laws, specialty: History of Law and Institutions
University of Bordeaux
Pessac, France

Title: The struggle for legal power: a Foucaultian analysis of the thought of Georges Ripert

Feb 2008 – Dec 2012
Bachelor of Laws
Faculty of Law of São Bernardo do Campo
São Bernardo do Campo/SP, Brazil

Feb 2002 – Dec 2007
Bachelor of Letters
University Center Santo André Foundation
Santo André/SP, Brazil

Research Scholarships

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020
Temporary Assistant, Teaching and Research (ATER)

Apr 2017 – Dec 2017
Erasmus plus programme for a nine-month research stay at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2016
Institute of the Americas: financial support for doctoral research at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Publications

O naturalismo jurídico sob o antagonismo do progresso
Paper forthcoming in Reflexões sobre Teoria e História do Direito: estudos em homenagem a José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes (ed. Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz, Ariel Engel Pesso and Luis Felipe Roque), São Paulo Almedina Editora, São Paulo, p. 85-104.

Entre professional law et political law : autour du ‘transfert’ de la tradition romaine-germanique en terres brésilienne
Paper published in Cahiers de méthodolgie juridique, nº 36, Les faits et le droit, RRJ 2022-2023 (org. Mathieu Devinat and Nader Hakim), Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, p. 1507-1522.

Le projet juridique de Georges Ripert: une lutte pour le pouvoir et une leçon de conservatisme
Paper published in the Revue d’histoire des facultés de droit et de la culture juridique, 2019-2020, n°39-40, p. 947-972.

Le biopouvoir et la modernité juridique
Paper published in Foucault face à la norme, edited by Jacqueline Guittard, Émeric Nicolas et Cyril Sintez, Paris, Mare & Martin, 2020, p. 223-239.

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