On 9 April 2026, the Regional Electoral Court of São Paulo hosted an event entitled ‘Challenges and perspectives of contemporary electoral systems’. The event was coordinated by Professor Flávio Yarshell of the USP Law School and featured Professor Joshua Douglas from the University of Kentucky in the United States. (more…)
PhD. candidate Débora Donida has been selected to participate in the Fox International Fellowship program for the 2026–2027 academic year. The Fox International Fellowship promotes academic exchange between Yale University and graduate students from 21 other prestigious universities around the world, (more…)
From April through July, Ph.D. candidate Débora Donida will be in Groningen, the Netherlands, as a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law, under the supervision of Professor Albertjan Tollenaar. (more…)
The University of São Paulo Press (Edusp) has just released a new, revised, updated, and expanded edition of the book Direito Constitucional Brasileiro (Brazilian Constitutional Law), by Virgílio Afonso da Silva. The book is available at the publisher’s stores (both physical and online) with a 10% discount. USP students and professors from any university receive a 50% discount after registering at the store. See: https://www.edusp.com.br/loja/produto/9786557852699.
PhD candidate Gabriel Garcia de Barros has published an article titled “From rule to reality, from abstraction to materiality: the direct action for unconstitutionality by omission (ADO) in the Brazilian Supreme Court” in the journal Juris (from the Faculty of Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande). The work continues (more…)
In partnership with researcher Marcella S. Penello Meirelles, copi PhD candidate Gabriel Garcia de Barros published an article in the Revista de Informação Legislativa (Legislative Information Journal) that analyzes the Supreme Federal Court’s movements regarding the defense of public policy management councils. Throughout the research, (more…)
The interview for the graduate admissions process will take place on November 24, 2025. Depending on the number of applications, there may be a pre-selection process based on research proposals and résumés. The results of this pre-selection will be communicated via email to all applicants. Interviews may be in-person or virtual, at the candidates’ discretion. The format chosen does not affect the chances of selection. (more…)
PhD candidate João Pedro Hoffert presented the paper ‘Competência para julgar crime militar de violência arbitrária praticado contra civil’ [Competence to try military crimes of arbitrary violence committed against civilians] at the X Congresso Internacional de Direitos Humanos de Coimbra, held between October 14th and 16th, 2025. The abstract was part of the Human Rights and Military Justice Symposium and can be accessed (in Portuguese) at https://trabalhoscidhcoimbra.com/ojs/index.php/anaiscidhcoimbra/article/view/5017 (ISSN 2595-2773).
Gabriel Garcia de Barros, copi researcher, took office today as a lecturer at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Gabriel will teach tax law at the Faculty of Accounting Sciences at UFF.
Congratulations, Gabriel!
On September 12, 2025, the University of Kiel Law School held an event to celebrate the 80th birthday of its most prestigious professor: Robert Alexy.
In addition to members of the University of Kiel Law School, dozens of former doctoral students supervised by Robert Alexy over the past 40 years attended. On this occasion, a commemorative book (Festschrift) was presented to the honored guest. (more…)