Fernando Romani Sales is a PhD candidate in State Law in the Constitution, Politics and Institutions (Copi) research group at the Faculty of Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), under the supervision of Professor Conrado Hübner Mendes. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at King’s College London (KCL), School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS), where he examined the European model for the protection of higher education. He is currently a Program Officer at the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA), and a researcher at the Center for the Analysis of Liberty and Authoritarianism (LAUT) and at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Law).
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DOUTORADO
In my dissertation I investigate the relationship between academic freedom and free speech in the protection of academic speech. Based on an analysis of national and regional legal models for the protection of academic freedom, I propose a new theoretical and normative framework to protect and set limits on scholars’ speech.
MESTRADO
I my master’s thesis at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), I analysed the decision-making process of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) in its case law on the right to education, focusing on the homeschooling decision.
2026

In: International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 138, pp. 102983, 2026, ISSN: 0883-0355.
2025

O que protege o discurso acadêmico? Entre liberdade acadêmica e liberdade de expressão no Brasil Journal Article
In: Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. e504, 2025, ISSN: 2179-345X.
2023

O caminho da autocracia: estratégias atuais de erosão democrática Book
Tinta da China Brasil, São Paulo, 2023, ISBN: 978-65-84835-01-6.
2022

Dialética, São Paulo, 2022, ISBN: 9786525230962.

In: REDES - Revista Eletrônica de Direito e Sociedade, vol. 10, pp. 159–198, 2022, ISSN: 2318-8081.
orcid iD: 0000-0002-2254-0767