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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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Human Rights, Development & Equality
Human Rights, Development & Equality is my longest-standing and closest(-to heart) thematic area; within it I have explored, in particular, two issue areas, notably the recent (and not so recent) Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights, a topic I have more or less continuously worked on since my doctoral studies – most recently in the context of an external collaboration […]
Global Mobility Law(s)
Global Mobility Law(s), a more recent interest that derives from my engagement in a refugee studies project (the Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello (CSVM)) that I co-direct at PUC; with both academic refugee studies and the humanitarian engagement with refugees and migrants being of relatively recent provenance in Brazil, the CSVM’s brief combines research with […]
Comparative Law and/in the Global South
Comparative Law and/in the Global South I have explored mainly in three thematic complexes: Comparative Methodology of/from the Global South, which combines a long-standing interest in comparative methodology with a continuing engagement with the Global South (both in general and in its particular Latin American/Brazilian variant); Constitutionalism and Crisis in the context of which I […]
Theorizing (International) Law
I have a long-standing interest in the theory of international law, in particular in relation to critical and heterodox approaches to the field, and in this context have, together with Anne Orford, co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (2016). More recently, I have co-coordinated, with Anna Leander (IHEID)) and Deval Desai […]
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