Samuel Barbosa is Professor at the Law School of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), a permanent researcher of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), and former President of the Brazilian Institute of History of Law (2016-2019). He is one of the coordinators of the Legal History Network, based at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiro (IEB-USP). He holds a PhD in Theory of Law from USP and a Master’s degree in Studies in Religion and the Old Testament from the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was visiting-researcher on several occasions. His research focuses on the multi-sited formation of normative orders and their conflicts.
Main Discipline: Law
Research Interests:
History of Law
Theory of Law
Recent publications:
. Edited books .
Barbosa, Samuel and Cunha, Manuela Carneiro da (2018): Direitos dos povos indígenas em disputa, São Paulo: Ed. Unesp.
Fortes, Pedro; Campos, Ricardo; Barbosa, Samuel (eds.) (2016): Teorias Contemporâneas do Direito: o direitos e as incertezas normativas, Curitiba: Juruá Editora.
. Book chapters .
Barbosa, Samuel (2018): “Usos da história na definição dos direitos territoriais indígenas no Brasil”, in: Barbosa, Samuel; Cunha, Manuela Carneiro da (eds.). Direitos dos povos indígenas em disputa. São Paulo: Ed. Unesp.
. Journal articles and working papers .
Barbosa, Samuel (2019): “Juramentos (DCH) (Oaths (DCH))”, in: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series, 2019-13. DOI
Duve, Thomas; Barbosa, Samuel; Albani, Benedetta (2014): “La formación de espacios jurídicos iberoamericanos (S. XVI-XIX): actores, artefactos e ideas. Comentarios introductorios”, in: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series, 2014-07. DOI
Barbosa, Samuel (2013): “Constituição, democracia e indeterminação social do direito”, in: Novos Estudos Cebrap, 96.