Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira

Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira

Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop Alumnus 2020
Spring 2020 ALARI Visiting Fellow
Paulo Henrique
Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (Department of Philosophy and Theory of Law). He has a bachelor's  and a master's degree in Law from the same University. For his master's degree, he studied the impact of modern moral formation on 19th-century Brazilian legislation. For his dissertation, he examines some of the main legal features of slavery in Brazil, focusing most particularly on the uses and ambiguities of the Brazilian Free Wombs law (1871) and its connections to the Atlantic experience, as well as its impact on both Law and slavery. By analyzing the formation, importance, and legal implications of the doctrine that made individuals slaves by birth, his dissertation aims to identify the conditions which enabled the development of the contrary notion that birth could also guarantee freedom. Finally, his research also seeks to explore the legal regimes of labor, capital, and citizenship, as well as the disputes regarding their implementation.

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