Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann:
She is Professor of Legal Theory (full-time, with tenure) at the National Law School (FND) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is Professor of the Graduate Program in Law. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (2022) from the Graduate Program in Philosophy of UFRJ, one PhD (2007) and two Post-PhDs in Law (2009 and 2013) from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She has a Masters in Public Law (2001) and a Bachelor of Law (1995) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She was Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of UERJ (2011-2013). She was Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2008-2010) and Research Assistant at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, at the Institute of State Law, Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2006-2008). She is Visiting Professor of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. She is the coordinator of theResearch Group on Theory of Human Rights (NTDH). She is a member of the Permanent Commission to Support People with Disabilities at FND / UFRJ. She currently works in the areas of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Human Rights, Law and Literature. Her field of research is interdisciplinary and has been focusing on the relation between Law, Philosophy and the Arts. Her research interests include disability, phenomenological body and the arts; disability and inclusion; cognitive and psychosocial disabilities; disability and non-human animals. She authored: Costa Barbosa, A.P. (2008).
Die Menschenwürde im deutschen Grundgesetz und in der brasilianischen Verfassung von 1988
.
Ein Rechtsvergleich
. Münster-Berlin: LIT. She coauthored: Barbosa-Fohrmann, A.P., Barreto, G.A.F. (2017). Are Human Beings with Extreme Mental Disabilities and Animals Comparable? An Account of Personality. In
Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn
, eds. Visa A.J. Kurki and Tomasz Pietrzykowski, 127-140. Cham: Springer.
Sandra Caponi:
She is Full Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She graduated in Philosophy by Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. She holds a Master and a PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a first Post-Doc from the University of Picardie (2000). She was a Senior Post-Doc Fellow at EHESS (Paris-France) in 2011. She is currently the coordinator of the Capes-Cofecub Project, an agreement with the University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII), called “The Dissemination of Expert Knowledge in the Field of Childhood”. She is the regional Vice-President of the Brazilian Society of Bioethics in Santa Catarina. In 2017 she did a six-month Senior Internship at Universidad de Buenos Aires and a further six months at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII). She is a level 1D Productivity Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She was as a Visiting Professor at EHESS (Paris-France), at Collège de France (Paris), at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín), at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Her research area lies in the epistemology and history of psychiatry, medicine and bioethics. She is a Professor at the Interdisciplinary Ph.D Program in Human Sciences and in the Graduate Program in Political Sociology at UFSC. She coordinates the following research group registered at CNPq “Sociology, Philosophy and History of Health Sciences”. In 2013, her book
Loucos e Degenerados: uma genealogia da psiquiatria ampliada
. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz was shorlisted for the national 55
th
Jabuti Prize in the area of Psychology and Psychoanalysis.
