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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Direito (FD) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) Law School, Department of Jurisprudence and Philosophy Law. Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Sociology of Law (ABraSD). Habilitation, Postdoctoral, Doctoral and Bachelors degrees from USP, Brazil. Academic visitor at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (UK) and at Harvard Law School (USA). Coordinator of the research group on "Legal Interpretation and Institutional Innovations: Law, Democracy and Development". My research focus on the interfaces between law, politics, and economics, in topics such as: (i) interpretation and argumentation in different legal decision-making arenas; (ii) historical sociology of Brazilian and comparative constitutionalism; (iii) fundamental rights and experimentalism in State institutions and public policies (constitutional innovations); (iv) corporate and financial arrangements of business ownership (disaggregated property); (v) regulation of digital technologies and global legal pluralism. My work covers the the fields of legal theory (legal positivism, formalism and realism), legal and political philosophy (republicanism, liberalism and pragmatism) and legal sociology (Weber, Luhmann, Unger).Co-editor of the volume on 'Luhmann and Socio-Legal Research' (Routledge), among many books and papers. lucas.amato@usp.br ; https://usp-br1.academia.edu/LucasFucciAmato (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The aim of the research is to advance a critique of the classic models of separation of powers, exploring the extent to which these institutional arrangements are compatible or not with the advent of mass democracy and the role of constitutional jurisdiction, and delimiting this function based on its potential to guarantee the conditions of a pluralistic social and political order and to …
There are numerous legal theories that divide jurists, but two are of particular importance today. In the legal theory, there is intense discussion as to whether or not Law is capable of providing a certain answer to the hermeneutical doubts that are placed before the interpreter (problem of the determination or indeterminacy of Law, with the detection of gaps as a borderline situation). …
This research is an exercise of constitutional sociology with implications for the theories of law and constitution. It aims at inquiring - taking into account the historical transformations on the sense and role of human rights and the contemporary design of this typical constitutional institution - how do these rights work and can work in relation not only to the legal system, but also …
The aim of this research is to study - starting from the analyses and concepts of the social systems theory of the German sociologist of Law Niklas Luhmann - the interferences that politics and economy, as social systems, can cause on the law system and, more precisely, on the spectrum of the "fundamental rights" or human rights. The work is focused on the right to culture, understood as …
Business ownership has been in deep transformation since the paradigmatic socio-legal study by Berle and Means on corporations. Not only in traditional manufacturing, but also in sectors such as education, health, culture and media the models of property are changing beyond the options of pure private capital (as in joint-stock companies), self-managed firms (cooperative societies) or sta…
This project refers to a scholarship for a fellowship as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and is part of the direct doctorate scholarship granted by Fapesp (the doctorate program is developed at the University of São Paulo Law School). I propose two starting points to shape my research activities abroad. Firstly, I would focus on the comparative history of human rights and cons…
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