PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP) in the field of constitutional law. I hold a Master’s degree in public law from the same institution (2022–2025), funded by a Capes/ProEx scholarship, and I completed a research stay at the Universität Bayreuth (2023) with a BayLat scholarship. I am a researcher in the “Lawyers Against Democratic Decline” (LADD) project at FGV-SP. I also work as a research assistant at Insper and on the Global Free Speech Repository project at Syracuse University (USA). In 2025, I served as a supervisor for an Elective Complementary Activity and for the Field Project at FGV Rio. I earned my graduation degree from FGV Direito Rio (2017–2021), including an exchange period at Columbia Law School (2021). I previously worked as a research intern at the Center for Justice and Society (CJUS–FGV Rio) in constitutional law (2018–2019) and as an undergraduate research fellow (PIBIC) (2017–2018).
orcid iD: 0000-0002-8348-3102DOCTORAL RESEARCH
In my doctoral research, I study constitutional interpretation outside the judiciary, with a focus on the Brazilian legislature. My research examines opinions issued by the Constitution and Justice Committees of the National Congress in cases involving constitutional rights, seeking to understand what kinds of arguments are used in legislative constitutional review. Building on these findings, I explore how they can speak to normative theories about the role of constitutional courts.
MASTER’S RESEARCH
In my master’s dissertation, I examined normative theories on the role of constitutional courts from a comparative perspective. Drawing on the work of David Landau, Samuel Issacharoff, and Rosalind Dixon, I sought to identify the contextual assumptions used to justify judicial review. I then assessed whether those assumptions hold in Brazil’s institutional setting, particularly in light of the design, political dynamics, and decision-making process of the Supreme Federal Court.