Diego Platz Pereira
Research Assistant
Born in 1997 in Natal, Brazil. Completed school at the Centro de Educação Integrada in Natal in 2014. Studied Law (LL.B.) at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte from 2015 to 2020 with a semester abroad at the University of Münster in the winter semester 2019/20 co-financed by a DAAD-Stibet scholarship. LL.M. in "German Law" with focus on "German Public Law" at the University of Münster from 2021 to 2023, funded by a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, with master’s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Oliver Lepsius. From 2021 to 2022 Student Assistant at the Institute of Local Government (Chair of Public Law, in particular Administrative Sciences, Cultural and Religious Constitutional Law) under Prof. Dr. Hinnerk Wißmann. Since 2023 Doctoral Candidate in the field of unwritten constitutional law and constitutional comparison at the University of Münster under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Oliver Lepsius with a forthcoming co-tutelle at the Universidade de São Paulo under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. Conrado Hübner Mendes. Dissertation funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Since May 2024 Research Assistant at the Institute for Foundations of Law, Department of Constitutional Theory, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law under Prof. Dr. Florian Meinel, especially for the collaboration in the DFG-project "Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles: A Comparative Study".
Publications:
Edited Book(s)
- Direitos fundamentais na contemporaneidade: estudos comparados de direito brasileiro e alemão. Natal: Insigne Acadêmica, 2024 (together with Yanko M. A. Xavier, Patrícia B. V. Guimarães und Fabrício G. Alves). 130p.
Articles and Book Chapter(s)
- The Influence of Constitutional Objectives on Constitutional Interpretation: Some Propositions Based on the Brazilian and German Cases, in: World Comparative Law / Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (accepted for publication).
- Die Bindung der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit an die Verfassungsziele: Bedingungen der Verfassungskonkretisierung durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht und das Supremo Tribunal Federal, in: Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 72 (2024), p. 665-695.
- Teoria e prática do efeito horizontal dos direitos fundamentais no Brasil e na Alemanha em tempos de covid-19: da dogmática à jurisprudência do Supremo Tribunal Federal e do Bundesverfassungsgericht. In: XAVIER, Yanko M. A.; GUIMARÃES, Patrícia B. V.; PEREIRA, Diego P.; ALVES, Fabrício G. (Ed.). Direitos fundamentais na contemporaneidade: estudos comparados de direito brasileiro e alemão. Natal: Insigne Acadêmica, 2024, p. 18-51.
- A integração jurídica latino-americana: possibilidades de seu fomento na Constituição Federal brasileira por meio de Comparação Constitucional, in: Anuario de Derecho Constitucional Latinoamericano 29 (2023), p. 461-480.
- A Responsabilidade Civil pelo Fato do Produto e a Ponderação Alexyana: Crítica ao Recurso Especial n. 1.395.647-SC, in: Revista Jurídica In Verbis (UFRN) 43 (2018), p. 43-59 (together with Rachel Cardoso Tinoco de Góes).
Blog Post(s) and Book Review(s)
- O Direito Constitucional Alemão de Hoje: A Caminho da Transnacionalização? Book Review of: „HERDEGEN, M; MASING, J.; POSCHER, R.; Gärditz, K. F. Handbuch des Verfassungsrechts: Darstellung in transnationaler Perspektive. München: C. H. Beck, 2021“, in: Revista Constituição, Economia e Desenvolvimento: Revista Eletrônica da Academia Brasileira de Direito Constitucional (accepted for publication).
- Unwritten Constitutional Law as a Brazilian Constitutional Category? In: Verfassungsblog, 09 July 2024.
- Um ineditismo inoportuno do Tribunal Constitucional Federal alemão… Mas para quem? In: Consultor Jurídico – Conjur, São Paulo, 08 Dec. 2023.