Cassiano Ribas

Cassiano Ribas is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and General Theory of Law at the University of São Paulo and a Recognised Student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. 

His currently research focuses on how the concept of law as a network has been used to analyse law, what are its limitations and possibilities for application. It discusses the contributions developed in the field of legal theory that have attempted to analyse law from a network perspective, as well as their criticisms. The project is fully funded by the Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement of the Ministry of Education, Brazil (CAPES).

He is a member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and is an affiliated researcher of the Centre of Anthropology of Law, University of São Paulo (NADIR-USP). He has previously worked as Visiting Scholar at the International Institute of Sociology of Law (IISL). 

Cassiano has several years of teaching experience at the University of São Paulo as an academic tutor for Sociology of Law (2020-2023) at the Faculty of Law. He has also been a member of Order of Attorneys of Brazil since 2019. 

He holds a Master of Laws degree in Public Law from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) double degree from the University of São Paulo and from the Université Lumiére Lyon 2, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. Furthermore, he holds a diploma in Social Sciences and Humanities from Sciences-Po Paris, and in Public and Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law. 

His scholarship has focused on the study of socio-legal issues, covering a variety of topics such as indigenous rights, criminology, colonialism and development, using a range of methods including surveys, interviews, ethnographies and documentary research.