José Garcez Ghirardi

Full Professor at FGV São Paulo Law School (undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs). He completed Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Collège de France (2017), under the Chair for Social State and Globalization, funded by a FAPESP scholarship, and at UNICAMP (2004). He holds a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. in English Linguistic and Literary Studies from the University of São Paulo (1995 and 1998). He obtained his Law Degree from the University of São Paulo (1985). He served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Association for Legal Education (ABEDi) and also acted as a member of the Expert Commission for the Brazilian Ministry of Education's Secretariat of Higher Education (MEC) for the field of Law. He functioned as Coordinator for the CAPES-Print/FGV project titled "Law in the Digital Age." He currently coordinates the Observatory on Legal Education at FGV São Paulo Law School. He is a member of the Ethics Committee at FGV São Paulo Law School and the Pedagogical Innovation Hub at FGV. He was also a member of the Diversity Committee and the Academic Council for the Center for Teaching and Research in Innovation at FGV São Paulo Law School. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Gonzaga Law School (WA, USA), where he taught courses including Jurisprudence and the Arts (2010) and Political Economy of Law and Development (2013). He was a Visiting Scholar at Wayne State University (Detroit-MI, USA), supported by a grant awarded by the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). He is the author of several publications, including: The Brazilian Legal Profession in the age of globalization (Cambridge University Press, co-author); Prisões, bordéis e as pedras da lei: ensaios em Arte e Direito [Prisons, Brothels, and the Stones of the Law: Essays on Art and Law] (Del Rey, 2020), Narciso em sala de aula: novas formas de subjetividade e seus desafios para o ensino [Narcissus in the Classroom: New Forms of Subjectivity and Their Challenges for Teaching] (FGV, 2016), O Mundo fora de Prumo: transformação social e teoria política em Shakespeare [The World Off-Kilter: Social Transformation and Political Theory in Shakespeare] (Almedina, 2011), and O Instante do Encontro: questões fundamentais para o ensino jurídico [The Instant of the Encounter: Fundamental Issues for Legal Education] (FGV, 2012).