Team

– Ph.D. (2024) and Master’s (2018) in Law, State, and Constitution from the Graduate Program in Law at the University of Brasília (PPGD-UnB)
– Bachelor of Laws from the University of Brasília (UnB), 2015

– Winner of the 2025 ABRAFI Thesis Award, granted by the Brazilian Association for Philosophy of Law and Sociology of Law (ABRAFI), which is the national section of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (IVR), the largest international association in the field of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2025)
– Semifinalist of the 2nd edition of the Jabuti Academic Award (Law category), organized by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) with support from the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) – 2025
– Featured Lawyer in the Legal 500 ranking (2024)
– Honorable Mention in the Humanities category at the 21st Scientific Initiation Congress of UnB and the 12th of the Federal District – ProIC/DPP/UnB – PIBIC (CNPq) 2014/2015, for the research project “Energy Integration in Latin America and Transconstitutional Conflicts”

– Associate Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Brasília (FD-UnB), appointed after ranking first in a public competitive examination, since July 2025
– Volunteer Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Brasília (FD-UnB), invited by the Dean’s Office, from January 2018 to February 2024
– Full Member of the Committee on Successions, Probate, and Asset Management of the Federal District Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-DF)
– Member of the Editorial Boards of Plenário – Legal Journal of the Chamber of Deputies, the Law Students’ Journal of the University of Brasília (UnB), and the Journal of Law and Current Affairs (RDA-IDP)

– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha. The Untold History of the General Theory of the State in Brazil: Adaptable Jurists, Dictatorship, and Legal Education during the Estado Novo (1937–1945). Avaré, São Paulo: Editora Contracorrente, 2024. 996 pages [commercial version of the doctoral thesis]
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha. Reasoning, Precedents, and Constitution: Overviews and Critiques of the 2015 Code of Civil Procedure. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2018. 240 pages [commercial version of the master’s dissertation]
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha; VELLOSO, João Carlos Banhos (eds.). Inaugural Essays on Public Law. Rio de Janeiro: Numa, 2017. 308 pages
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha. Is the Return of Money Deposited by Mistake Subject to a Finder’s Reward? The Relationship Between Unjust Enrichment by Performance and Article 1234 of the Civil Code. Aracê – Human Rights Journal, v. 7, pp. 12329–12342, 2025
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha; FERREIRA, Marcio Vieira Souto Costa. The Unconstitutionality of Civil Imprisonment as an Atypical Coercive Measure: Reflections in Light of the Jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice and the Supreme Federal Court. In: Firly Nascimento Filho; Marcio Vieira Souto Costa Ferreira; Renato Beneduzzi (eds.). Studies in Honor of Sergio Bermudes. Rio de Janeiro: GZ, 2023, pp. 515–535
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha; BASTOS, Marcus Vinícius Fernandes. Fake News and Post-Truth in the Constitutional Paradigm of the Democratic Rule of Law: A Critical Analysis in Light of Habermas’s Discourse Theory and Dworkin’s Theory of Integrity in Law and Politics. In: BRANCO, Paulo Gonet Branco; FONSECA, Reynaldo Soares da; BRANCO, Pedro Henrique de Moura Gonet; VELLOSO, João Carlos Banhos; FONSECA, Gabriel Campos Soares da (eds.). Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. São Paulo: Almedina, 2022, pp. 199–227
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha; NETTO, Menelick de Carvalho; BASTOS, Marcus Vinícius Fernandes. LEGAL OPINION – UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ANTICIPATED ENFORCEMENT OF CUSTODIAL SENTENCES: A Constitutional Theory Debate in ADC 43. In: Menelick de Carvalho Netto (ed.). Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Law: Selected Writings (vol. 2). Belo Horizonte: Conhecimento Editora, 2021, pp. 163–210
– TOMAZ, Mateus Rocha; NETTO, Menelick de Carvalho. “Are the Institutions Working?” The Constitutional Boomerang of the Official Narrative in ADPF No. 153 and the STF Facing the Authoritarianisms of Yesterday and Today: A Brief Exercise in Constitutional History and Theory. In: Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira and David F. L. Gomes (eds.). 30 Years and Now? Law and Politics in the Horizons of the 1988 Republic (In Honor of Juarez Guimarães). Belo Horizonte: Editora Conhecimento, 2020, pp. 281–293

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