Prof. Dr. Juliano Zaiden Benvindo

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is a tenured full-time Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasilia, where he started teaching in November of 2009, after having carried out his doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin, in Germany. He was the Head of the Graduate Program in Law (Master and PhD) between 2012 and 2016, and Deputy of the same Program between 2012 and 2014. Since 2016, he has also become a Research Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). His main areas of research are in the fields of comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional politics, and constitutional history. He holds a Bachelor of Law (2003) and a Master in Legal Philosophy (2005, with CAPES Scholarship) from the University of Brasilia, and a PhD in Public Law from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in joint degree with the University of Brasília (2009, summa cum laude, with DAAD-CAPES Fellowship). In 2013-2014, he worked as a postdoctoral visiting researcher at the Centre of European Law and Politics of the University of Bremen, Germany (with CAPES Fellowship). He was a CAPES-Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. (2019, 2022) He has been advisor of Master and PhD dissertations at the Graduate Program in Law of the University of Brasília and the Head of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies of the same institution, which is aimed at promoting the studies of comparative constitutional law in Brazil. Between 2014 and 2016, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Brasilia Law Journal (Revista Direito.UnB). He is the author of "The Rule of Law in Brazil: The Legal Construction of Inequality" (Hart, 2022), "On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication: Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism" (Springer, 2010) and "Racionalidade Jurídica e Validade Normativa" (Argvmentum, 2008), co-editor of the book "Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America"(Hart Publishing, 2019, with Richard Albert and Carlos Bernal). He has also written in Portuguese and English in distinguished journals and publishers, such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Marquette Law Review, Cornell International Law Journal, Journal of Constitutional Research, Novos Estudos CEBRAP, Direito e Práxis, Routledge, Hart, Springer. Since 2014 he has been a regular contributor to I-CONnect, the academic blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Professor Associado da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Brasília na área de Direito Público, com foco em Direito Constitucional Comparado (desde 2009), e Líder do Centro de Estudos Constitucionais Comparados da Universidade de Brasília (CECC/UnB). É também Pesquisador de Produtividade do CNPq. Foi CAPES-Humboldt Senior Fellow no Instituto Max-Planck de Direito Público Comparado e Direito International em Heidelberg, Alemanha (2019, 2022) e Visiting Scholar no Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik (ZERP), da Universität Bremen, Alemanha (2013-2014). Possui doutorado em direito público pela Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2009, summa cum laude, com co-tutela na Universidade de Brasília) e mestrado em Direito, Estado e Constituição (foco em filosofia política) pela Universidade de Brasília, onde também realizou sua graduação. É Co-Chair do Brazilian Chapter da International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). Escreve regularmente para o International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog (I-CONnect) desde 2014 e Membro-Fundador da Rede Brasil-Alemanha de Internacionalização do Ensino Superior (REBRALINT). Suas principais áreas de pesquisa são: direito constitucional comparado, teoria do direito, política constitucional, supremas cortes e filosofia do direito.