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Dirpolis Institute
Pratti dos santos magioli Guilherme
Bio
Guilherme Pratti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law at the Institute of Law, Politics, and Development (DIRPOLIS) and a core member of the Center for Inter-Legality Research (CIR).
He holds a PhD in Law from Sant’Anna (2023), where his thesis examined the relationship between law, environment, and technology. Prior to his doctorate, he earned a Master’s in Legal Theory from the University of Lisbon (2018) and completed a visiting research period at the Copenhagen Business School (2022). He is also a qualified lawyer in Brazil, member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB).
He is the author of The Great Adaptation: Technique, Environment and the Law on the Globe (Edward Elgar, 2024). He publishes in English, Italian, and Portuguese and his articles have appeared in international journals and edited volumes by Springer Nature, Routledge, and Wolters Kluwer. He teaches modules on Sustainable Legality, Legal Methodology, and General Legal Theory, and engages in public outreach, delivering lectures on climate law to academic and non-academic audiences. His primary research fields include Jurisprudence (from a socio-legal and interdisciplinary perspective), globalisation, hermeneutics, and law & literature.
Research
Guilherme's research focuses on the intersection of law, society, the environment, and technology, examining the legal rationality of climate change. Specifically, he studies how international environmental and climate law, and overarching policy initiatives such as the European Green Deal and the Brazilian Ecological Transformation Plan are reshaping legal rationality and the concept of sustainability. This body of work explores how different legal systems are adapting to the same global challenges, with a particular focus on the tension between national sovereignty and transnational environmental obligations.
Publications
Courses
2024. Public talk at the local TV show 'Politica e Territorio', channel Telecentro 2. Livorno, Italy. Title: Il patto verde: la strategia europea di contrasto al cambiamento climatico.
2023. Seminar at the Liceo Galilei Pancinotti. Pisa, Italy. The lesson was done in the context of the course 'L'educazione civica: dall'ambito locale al limes dell'UE'. Title of the presentation: Il diritto degli Stati e i beni comuni globali.
2023. Public talk at the ADI Design Museum. Milan, Italy. Public talk at the session 'Italy: a new collective landscape'. Title of the presentation: The ontological ambiguities of international environmental law.
2022. European International Studies Association (EISA): Pan-European Conference (PEC). Athens, Greece. Title of the presentation: Ingraining reality in International Law: a climate-changing tempo.
2022. VII Tarragona International Environmental Law Colloquium (TIEC). Tarragona, Spain. Title of the presentation: The climate crisis speaks ‘legalese’.
2021. International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Webinar, nº 46. Title of the presentation: Climate litigation in Brazil: is it enough?