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Florian F. Hoffmann is a Professor of Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, a co-speaker of the UNHCR Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello in Refugee Studies at PUC-Rio (CSVM/PUC-Rio), and an associate researcher at the Human Rights Center of the Law Department (Núcleo de Direitos Humanos). Prior to this he was the Franz Haniel Chair of Public Policy (2010-2016) and the director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy (2012-2015) at the University of Erfurt (Germany), a lecturer at Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2008-2010), and an assistant professor of law at the PUC-Rio (2003-2008). He holds degrees from the LSE (BSc(Econ)), PUC-Rio (Mestrado em Ciências Jurídicas) and the European University Institute (Doctor of Law). His work has focused on the interface between law and politics, with his main research areas having been in international law, human rights and (international) legal theory.

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Unruly Practices at the Border: From Mobility Regimes to Infrastructures in Latin America (with Andrea Jiménez Laurence & published version)
February 26, 2025Beyond the normative impasse of environmental migration: From regimes to infrastructures in a Latin American key (with Leilane Nascimento dos Reis Santos / published version)
December 4, 2024What (is) International Law for Gaza ? (full symposium issue / published version)
July 1, 2024The Future of Social and Economic Rights (pre-print / published verion available on request)
May 7, 2024Human Rights and Development (with Danielle Hanna Rached / pre-print / published version available on request)
December 18, 2023Transformation by Decree?A (Brief) Reflection on the ‘Directive Constitution’(Constituição Dirigente) in Brazil [with Fabio Carvalho Leite] (pre-print / published version on request)
June 1, 2023On the Value of Rights (published version)
January 19, 2023Constitutionalism under Bolsonaro: The Legal Maze and the Tchutchuca do Centrão (publiched version)
September 21, 2022Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees [with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen] (published version)
August 1, 2022Spaltung und „Backlash“:Ausgangsbedingungen der Coronakrise in Brasilien [Cleavages and backlash: initial conditions for the coronavirus crisis in Brazil] [with Kai Michael Kenkel] (published version)
August 1, 2022Discourses on Corruption: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives (co-edited with Kalpana Kannabiran & Bettina Hollstein)
November 1, 2021Before the Law : (Anti-)Corruption and the Politics of Anti-politics in Contemporary Brazil (published version)
November 1, 2021The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston (co-edited with Nehal Bhuta, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret & Margaret Satterthwaite)
June 5, 2021Quite Enough (Still)Human Rights in (Times of) Crisis (proofs / published version on request)
June 1, 2021Unheimliche Nachbarschaften – Zur Dekolonialität in Lateinamerika (Eerie Vicinities – On Decoloniality in Latin America) (published version)
February 22, 2021Memento Mori: COVID-19and the Political Imaginaryof Death [with Bethania Assy] (published version)
November 21, 2020Border Regimes and Pandemic Law in Time of COVID-19: A View from Brazil [with Isadora D´Avila] (published version)
November 9, 2020Review Essay: Of Dreams, Nightmares, and a Little Bit of Hope – Or: What comes After Neoliberalism? – by Poul Kjaer (ed.)(published version)
August 31, 2020Facing South: On the Significance of an/other Modernity in Comparative Constitutional Law (pre-print / published version on request)
June 1, 2020Die Wirkung der Weimarer Verfassung: ein Blick nach Brasilien (The Impact of the Weimar Constitution: a View from Brazil) [with Fabio Carvalho Leite] (published version)
June 1, 2019Legalism at a Dead End or the (Br)Exit of Politics (published version)
March 6, 2019Counterdisciplining the Dual Agenda: towards a (re-)assessment of the interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations with [Roberto V. Yamato] (published version))
November 12, 2018Towards a (Radically) Decolonial Anthropology: Revisiting the Iberian School of Peace’s Encounter with the Rights of) Ameríndians [with Bethania Assy] (published version)
June 5, 2018Review Essay: Twin Siblings: Fresh Perspectives on Law in Development (and Vice Versa) (pre-print / published version available on request)
January 1, 2017International Legalism and International Politics (proofs / published version available on request)
June 3, 2016The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (co-edited with Anne Orford)
June 2, 2016Global Values and Local Realities: Brazilian Constitutional Law [with Fabio Carvalho Leite / published version]
June 1, 2015Teaching General Public International Law [published version]
June 1, 2014Foundations Beyond Law [published version]
June 1, 2012Facing the Abyss: International Law Before the Political [published version]
May 1, 2012Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups [with Frédéric Mégret] (published version)
September 1, 2009Accountability for Social and Economic Rights in Brazil [with Fernando R.N.M. Bentes] (proofs / published version available on request)
July 27, 2009Review Essay: Gentle Civilizer Decayed: Moving (Beyond) International Law
June 1, 2009The UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities [with Frédéric Mégret] (published version)
November 1, 2008Derrida and Legal Philosophy (co-edited with Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld and Cornelia Vismann)
October 2, 2008Book Review: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages -by Saskia Sassen [with Peer Zumbansen] (published version)
July 1, 2008A Beacon of Light in the Dark ? The United Nations’ Experience with Peace Operations Ombudspersons as Illustrated by the Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo [published version]
June 1, 2007An Epilogue on an Epilogue [Symposium Issue on Martti Koskenniemi´s From Apology to Utopia] (published version)
December 1, 2006Human Rights, the Self and the Other: Reflections on a Pragmatic Theory of Human Rights [published version]
June 1, 2006Book Review: Mary Robinson, A Voice for Human Rights – by Kevin Boyle (ed.) (published version)
June 1, 2006Epilogue: in lieu of conclusion [Symposium Issue on Derrida and the Law] (published version)
January 1, 2005Review Essay: The Empowered Self [published version]
June 1, 2002Watershed or Phoenix From the Ashes? – Speculations on the Future of International Law After the September 11 Attacks (published version)
October 1, 2001