Researchers currently working with us
Members
Coordination
Coordinator of Studium Iuris - Research Group on History of Legal Culture. Professor of Legal History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School. Ph.D in Theory and History of Law from the University of Florence. Master's degree and J.D. from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. B.A. in History from the State University of Santa Catarina. He was a visiting professor at the University of Milan. His main research interests are the history of Brazilian criminal law, the history of law in transnational perspective, the history of codifications and legislative production, the history of legal science and the history of the legal status of foreigners.
E-mail: ricardosontag@yahoo.com.br
Professors
Professor of Theory of History and History of Historiography at the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Ph.D in Social History from the University of São Paulo. Master's degree and B.A. in History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. J.D. from Milton Campos Faculties. She was a visiting researcher and a post-doctoral intern at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte. He is currently developing the project "Jurists, writing history and public uses of the past (Argentina and Brazil, first half of the 20th century)". His main research interests are the history of law in a transnational perspective, the history of Brazilian and Argentinean historiography, intellectual history and the history of books, editions and reading.
E-mail: marianamsilveira@gmail.com
Ph.D Students
Member of Studium Iuris since 2017. B.A. in Legal and Social Sciences from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Master's Degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Ph.D student in Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, developing a thesis entitled: Governance of the Brazilian Church between Rome and Rio de Janeiro: The role of the Council of Trent in ecclesiastical administration (1840-1889). Member of the research group Die Regierung der Universalkirche nach dem Konzil von Trient, coordinated by Dr. Benedetta Albani, at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main. Research interests: history of public law and canon law; the Holy See and Ibero-American systems of royal patronage; law and religion.
E-mail: laclaramartins@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2019. Ph.D student in History of Legal Culture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, supervised by Prof. Ricardo Sontag (2019). Master in Theory and History of Law by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, supervised by Prof. Arno Dal Ri Júnior (2017-2019), with a CNPq scholarship (2017-2019). J.D. from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 2015, he was a Scientific Initiation scholar from 2012 to 2013. Member of the Ius Commune - Research Group on History of Legal Culture.
E-mail: guilhermebedin1988@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2015. Ph.D student (2019) and Master's degree (2017) in Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Especialização in Theory and Philosophy of Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2017). J.D. from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2014). B.A. student in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2017-). He is currently researching the relationship between Law, State, Coronelismo and Cangaço in the Brazilian Empire and First Republic.
E-mail: jpmansur@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018. Ph.D student in Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with emphasis on the history of criminal proceedings in the Brazilian First Republic. Master's Degree in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the area of Fundamentals of Legal Experience. J.D. from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2013). He works mainly on the following topics: Legal History, Legal Methodology, Legal Theory, Legal Philosophy and Criminal Procedure.
E-mail: nodari.regis@gmail.com
Masters (mestrado) Students
Member of Studium Iuris since 2015. J.D. from UFMG, with a dissertation on the history of royal pardon in Brazil between 1823 and 1924. Currently, he is developing a master's dissertation on expropriation in the Brazilian Empire and the First Republic. His main interests falls within the history of Brazilian public law.
E-mail: arthurbarretto@oi.com.br
Member of Studium Iuris since 2016. J.D. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and B.A. in History from UFMG. He is currently developing a master's dissertation on the relationship between the uses of justice, negotiated justice and public criminal action conditioned to representation in Brazil between 1860 and 1899. His main interests are the history of Brazilian public law and studies on the uses of justice.
E-mail: lucasrgarro@gmail.com
Undergraduate Students
Member of Studium Iuris since 2015. J.D. student at UFMG. He is currently working on a dissertation on the Medeiros and Albuquerque (1904) bill on compensation for work accidents. His main interest lies within the history of labor law. Until 2018, he researched the pardon of victims in Brazilian nineteenth-century criminal law.
E-mail: arleyft96@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018, researching the crime of author's rights infringement in the 19th and 20th centuries. J.D. student at UFMG. Monitor of Criminal Law I. Trainee intern at the Clínica de Trabalho Escravo e Tráfico de Pessoas between 2015 and 2017. Her main interest is the study of Criminal Sciences.
E-mail: beatriz96.coelho@gmail.com
Fernanda Amaral Duarte
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018, researching the crime of author's rights infringement in the 19th and 20th centuries. J.D. student at UFMG. Monitor and member of the Núcleo de Estudos em Propriedade Intelectual (Center for Studies in Intellectual Property). Member and former coordinator of the Clínica de Prática e Pesquisa em Direito de Internet e Novas Tecnologias (Clinic of Practice and Research in Internet Law and New Technologies). One of her main interests is the history of intellectual property, especially regarding author's rights.
E-mail: fernanda.amaralduarte@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018. J.D. student at UFMG. Currently, she is developing a scientific initiation project in the history of Brazilian criminal law in the 20th century, more specifically on the preliminary drafts of criminal correction codes and the entanglements of the language of human rights with the agenda of criminal correction. Her main interests lies within legal history, criminal law and international law.
E-mail: gabriellamena@outlook.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018. B.A. student in History at UFMG. Takes part in the coordination team of the Paleography Workshop. Previously, she conducted a scientific initiation research on female participation in the French Revolution. She is currently researching the crime of seduction in Brazil (1830-1890).
E-mail: gabrielassarmento@hotmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018. J.D. student at the UFMG Law School. Researches the history of the resurgence of the penalty of crimes against author's rights in Brazil. Interest in procedural law. Member of the winning team of the 1st Brazilian Civil Procedure Competition.
E-mail: pacaop@hotmail.com
J.D. student at UFMG and member of the Studium Iuris since 2018, under the project "Organization and dissemination of the collection of the Legal Book Museum Journalist Assis Chateaubriand". Monitor of Legal History. Currently, she is developing a scientific initiation project on the history of the crimes against religion in the 19th century Brazil. Mainly interested in the history of criminal law and the relationship between law and religion.
e-mail: lauramaximiliano15@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2016. J.D. student at UFMG. He is currently developing a scientific initiation research with scholarship (CNPq) on the history of the reparation of the damage caused by a criminal offence in Brazil between 1830 and 1890. His main interests are in the history of Brazilian private law and the history of law in a transnational perspective.
E-mail: thebitleo@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2018. B.A. student in History at UFMG. Researches the crime of indecent exposure in the legal culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is interested in legal history and in the intersection of gender and political cultures.
E-mail: luis.silvabotelho@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2016. J.D. student at UFMG. Monitor of Legal History (2017/2 - 2018/2) and participant in the project "Organization and dissemination of the collection of the Legal Book Museum Journalist Assis Chateaubriand". Developed a research in Philosophy of Law, in the group Human Rights: Roots and Wings. His main interests are in the history of censorship and freedom of expression and correlations between law and art.
E-mail: maria.ml.laura@gmail.com
Other Members
Member of Studium Iuris since 2017 with a research on the criminal concept of corruption. J.D. and Master's degree in Law from UFMG.
E-mail: alexiamachadofaria@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2017. Researches the crime of apology of crime or criminal in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil. J.D. from UFMG. Interrupted studies in a B.A. in Design (UEMG).
E-mail: marina.c.araujo@gmail.com
Member of Studium Iuris since 2015. Researches the legal regime of nobility in imperial Brazil. J.D. from UFMG and B.A. student in History at UFMG.
E-mail: alvaromonteirofonseca@gmail.com
Master's student in Theory and History of Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC, supervised by Prof. Dr. Diego Nunes. J.D. from the Federal University of Paraná (2018), with a dissertation on the process of criminalization of self-abortion in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the supervision of Prof. Dr. Luís Fernando Lopes Pereira. Since 2013, she has been researching law and gender and is currently investigating, within the scope of her Master's degree, the historical processes of criminalization of provoked abortion in Brazil, under the 1890 Criminal Code.
Member of Studium Iuris since 2017. J.D. from UFMG. Researched, for her dissertation, the introduction of the crime of prostitution house in the Brazilian legal system from 1890 to 1920.
E-mail: raquelkdossantos@gmail.com