CURRICULUM VITAE
(January 2011)
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Pablo Holmes
Male
Brazilian
[email protected]
07/24/1981 – at Recife/PE - Brazil
Mehringdamm 115, 10965, Berlin, Germany
Education
04/2008-
PhD in Sociology (in progress)
University of Flensburg (Germany)
Title: Demokratische Kausalität: Die Bedingungen der politischen Beobachtung im Weltrecht
(preliminary).
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst
Scholarship granted by DAAD - German Service for Academic Exchange
04/2005 – 02/2007
Master of Law.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), (Federal University of Pernambuco), Recife,
Brazil.
Title: Da violência à solidariedade: as lutas por reconhecimento e a formação do Estado
Democrático de Direito. (A teoria do discurso e a teoria crítica do reconhecimento sobre o
status do direito em sociedades modernas).
Translation: From violence to solidarity: The struggles for recognition and the rise of the
Democratic Constitutional State. (The debate between Theory of Discourse and Theory of
Recognition on the status of law in Modern societies).
Advisor: Prof. Dr. George Browne Rêgo
Scholarship granted by CNPq - National scientific and technological development board
(Brazilian agency)
04/1999 – 07/2004
Bachelor in Law.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), (Federal University of Pernambuco), Recife,
Brazil
Title: Dialética da liberdade no direito moderno: razão instrumental e positivismo jurídico na
dialética do esclarecimento. (Translation: Dialectics of freedom in Modern Law: Instrumental
reason and Legal Positivism in the Dialectics of Enlightenment.)
Grants and prizes
2011 – Grant for attending the Summer School “Regulating World Society: Law, Governance and the Quest for
global justice” at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – WIKO. Berlin, Germany. (The Summer School consists of
two modules, the next one will take place in 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana/USA).
2010 – Travel grant for attending the Workshop “Global Law and Policy” for two weeks at the Harvard Law
School, June of 2010. (Cambridge, Massachussets, USA)
2007 – Full Scholarship for PhD studies in Germany granted by the DAAD (German Service of Academic
Exchange)
2007 – Master of Law with “special distinction” and with the maximal grades in all disciplines at the UFPE;
2005 – First place in the entrance examination for the Master of Law at the UFPE (Federal University of
Pernambuco), thus granted with a 24 months scholarship by the CNPq (Brazilian Agency for Science and
Technology);
2001-2003 – For three times granted with a Scholarship by the Program for initiation into scientific research of
CNPq (Brazilian Agency for Science and Technology) for engaging in research activities at the UFPE;
Research Interests:
Social Theory, Sociology of Law, Legal Theory, Constitutional Law
Systems Theory, Global Law, Global Constitutionalism
Critical Theory, Discourse Theory, Theory of democracy
Work and teaching experience
1
02/2000-01/2001 - David Fernandes Advogados associados (Law´s firm)
Internship in tax and administrative law.
2
02/2000 - 02/2007- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE (Federal University of
Pernambuco):
03/2000 - 03/2001 – Tutor for introduction into Law
03/2001 - 03/2002 – Tutor for legal Hermeneutics
08/2000 - 07/2003 – Scholarship Holder of CNPq (Brazilian Agency for Science and Technology) in a
Research project: Law, reason and domination: Positivism and instrumental reason in Modern law.
04/2002 - 04/2003 - Representative activities:
Member as student delegate of the University’s Senate.
04/2005 - 02/2007 – Scholarship holder of CNPq (Brazilian agency) for the Master of Law.
03/2006 - 03/2007 - Lecturer for Introduction to Law
3
05/2002 – 05/2003 - City Council of Recife – CMR:
Assistant of a city delegate (Mr. Dílson Peixoto)
4
11/2003 - 03/2005 - City Hall of Recife – PCR:
Sub-director for administrative contracts at the municipal Health department.
5
02/2007 - 07/2007 - Faculdades Integradas do Recife – FIR (Private Law School):
Lecturer for Introduction into Law
6
07/2007 - 12/2007 - University of the Senate: Federal Senate of the Republic of Brazil
Lecturer for legal Theory and legal hermeneutics in a graduate course for senate’s employees.
7
since 12/2007 – Scholarship holder of DAAD at the Flensburg University
Language skills
Portuguese: native speaker;
German: fluent;
Spanish: fluent;
English: fluent;
French: passive knowledge.
Further Information
Since 2009 contributes periodically to the Brazilian News Blog “Acerto de Contas”, writing about national and
world politics (http://www.acertodecontas.blog.br)
Since 2009 is scientifical referee for the “Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política da USP” (Journal of Political and
Moral Philsophy of graduate students of the University of São Paulo);
2002-2003 – President of the Student‘s Association of the Federal University of Pernambuco (DCE – political
representative of the students of university), directly elected by the students;
2002-2003 – Member of the national leading commission of the youth of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Worker’s
party) - Brazil, being one of the national coordinators of Lula’s presidential campaign of 2002.
List of publications
Complete articles in journals (only journals with peer review are mentioned):
Entre a arrogância e a impotência: os dilemas da teoria da evolução como teoria normativa da sociedade em
Jürgen Habermas. (Between Arrogance and Impotence: Dilemmas of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of social
Evolution), in: Lua Nova (Journal for Political Sciences), 2011 (Forthcoming).
The Rhetoric of ‘Legal Fragmentation’ and its Discontents: Evolutionary Dilemmas in the Constitutional Semantics
of Global law, in: Utrecht Law Review, 7(2), pp. 113-140, 2011.
O Estado de Direito como meio racional de integração em sociedades complexas: a evolução do direito moderno
em Jürgen Habermas. (The Rule of Law as a rational medium for integration in complex societies: The Evolution
of Modern Law in Jürgen Habermas). In: Direito, Estado e Sociedade – PUC/RJ (Journal of the Law School of the
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), 35(2), pp. 153-172, 2009. Also Available at: http://publique.rdc.pucrio.br/direito/media/HOLMES_35.pdf
Briga de família ou ruptura metodológica na teoria crítica (Habermas X Honneth). (A family quarrel:
methodological rupture in critical theory (Habermas v. Honneth)). Tempo Social (USP/SP) (Journal for Sociology
of
the
University
of
São
Paulo),
21(1),
pp.133
156,
2009.
Also
available
at:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20702009000100008&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt.
Reconhecimento e normatividade: a transformação hermenêutica da teoria crítica (Recognition and normativity:
the hermeneutical transformation of social critical theory). Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (Journal of the
Brazilian Association for Social Sciences), 24(69), pp.129 - 207, 2009. Also available at:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-69092009000100009&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt
As objeções de Albrecht Wellmer à Ética do discurso e a filosofia moral fundamentada em uma teoria social do
reconhecimento. (Albrecht Wellmer’s objections on the Discourse Ethics). Trans/form/ação (Journal of Philosophy
of
the
UNESP,
São
Paulo)
31(1),
pp.
177-96,
2008.
Also
available
at:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=0101-317320080001&lng=pt&nrm=iso
A razão teórica triunfa sobre a razão prática? Habermas contra a dialética do esclarecimento. (Triumphs the
theoretical reason over the practical reason? Habermas against the dialectic of enlightenment) Ethic@ - Journal
of Moral Philosophy, (UFSC), 7(2), pp. 23-47, 2008. Also available at: http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@/et71art3.pdf
Emancipação e Razão Prática: Notas de uma leitura sobre o projeto kantiano de utopia. (Emancipation and
Practical Reason: obervations on the Kantian project of Utopia). Revista Idéia Nova (UFPE), n. 3, pp. 193-217,
2007.
A modernidade como dilema entre a eticidade e a moralidade: a crítica de Charles Taylor à teoria do
discurso.(The modernity as a dilemma between ethical life and morality: Charles Taylor’s critique on Habermas).
Controvérsia (UNISINOS), n.3 p. 2, 2007.
Also available at: http://www.controversia.unisinos.br/index.php?e=5&s=9&a=68
Psicologia Genética e Teoria do Discurso: a fundamentação evolutiva da democracia em Habermas. (Genetical
psychology and theory of discourse: Habermas’s evolutive foundation of Democracy). Cadernos de Ética e
Filosofia Política (USP), n. 8, pp.62 - 86, 2006. Also available at: http://www.fflch.usp.br/df/cefp/Cefp8/indice.html
Articles accepted for publication in scientific journals:
HOLMES, Pablo, A eticidade da desigualdade: esboço de um diagnóstico das condições de institucionalização
do Estado de Direito na modernidade periférica. Dados (Rio de Janeiro). 2010.
Complete Articles in Conferences:
A transformação hermenêutica da teoria crítica: entre a teoria do discurso e a teoria social do reconhecimento
sobre a suposta superioridade normativa do Estado Democrático de Direito. (The hermeneutical transformation of
critical theory: between discourse theory and social theory of recongnition about the normative superiority of the
democratic Constitutional State) In: 31º Encontro anual da ANPOCS, 2007, Caxambu. 31º Encontro anual da
ANPOCS, 2007
Razão Destranscendentalizada e Teoria da Argumentação jurídica. (Detranscendentalized reason and legal
argumentation theory). In: XIV Congresso Nacional do CONPEDI, 2005, Fortaleza. Florianópolis. Florianópolis:
Fundação Boiteux, 2006.
Resumes in Conferences:
As lutas por reconhecimento e o Estado Democrático de Direito: transformação hermenêutica da teoria crítica da
sociedade. (Struggles for recognition and the Democratic Constitutional State: hermeneutical transformation in
the critical theory of society) In: 31º Encontro anual da ANPOCS (Annual meeting of the Brazilian national
association for sociology) , 2007, Caxambu. 31º Encontro anual da ANPOCS 2007, 2007. p. 229
Eticidade e Socialização: Destranscendentalização da Ética do Discurso para uma Teoria da Argumentação
Jurídica efetiva. (Ethical Life and socialization: Detranscendentalization of Discourse Ethics and legal
argumentation) In: XIII Congresso do CONPEDI (Annual meeting of the Brazilian national association for legal
research), 2005, Fortaleza. Anais do XIII congresso do CONPEDI. Fundação Boiteux, 2005.
Limitações e Aquisições dos Direitos Sociais na Hermenêutica Brasileira: Um Estudo da Aplicabilidade de um
Direito Emancipatório. (Limits and possibilities of social rights in the Brazilian hermeneutics of law: notes on an
emancipatory law.) In: Anais do XI Congresso de Iniciação Científica 2003 ( Student’s research meeting). Recife,
PE: , 2003.
A Viragem Lingüística da Filosofia do Conhecimento e os Novos Paradigmas da Epistemologia Jurídica. (The
Linguistic Turn and the new paradigms of legal epistemology). In: Anais do X Congresso de Iniciação Científica
2001 (Student’s research meeting). Recife, PE: , 2001. v.2. p. 314.
Os Paradigmas da metodologia jurídica na Pós-Modernidade. (Paradigms of Law in Post-Modernity) In: Anais do
IX Congresso de Iniciação Científica (Student’s research meeting). Recife, PE, 2000. v.1. p. 231.
Articles in newspapers:
Democracia na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. (Democracy at the Federal University of Pernambuco).
Jornal da ADUFEPE (Newspaper of the union of the University’s workers of UFPE), 2002.
Os jovens e a filosofia. (Youth and Philosophy). Diário de Pernambuco. Caderno especial do dia do estudante
(Special Section for the “Student’s Day”). 08/13/1997.
Technical works and other publications (without peer review)
HOLMES, Pablo, Others; Projeto de Código Sanitário do Município do Cabo (Project of “Sanitation Law” to the
City Hall, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil), 2003.
A estima social do professor no Brasil: para além de alguns lugares comuns (The social esteem of teachers in
Brazil: beyond the common sense). Boletim Educação Jurídica, Vol. 2, N.° 3, jul-set. Sao Paulo: Fundacao
Getúlio
Vergas,
2008.
Also
available
at:
http://www.direitogv.com.br/interna.aspx?PagId=HTKCNKWI&IDCategory=21&IDSubCategory=133
Teoremas de transição do estado social: "ciência política" e controle social no estado regulador. In: Jus Navigandi (Legal
Journal Online), v.998, p.01 - 03, 2006.
A responsabilidade civil do Estado por erro na prestação jurisdicional. In: Jus navigandi (Legal Journal Online) , v.51, 2001.
Direito e sistema, in: Jus Navigandi (Legal Journal Online). , v.51, p.2 - 43, 2001.
Talks at Conferences and Scientific Events
Participation: Workshop “Towards a Radical International Law”. At the London School of Economics, London, UK,
May of 2011.
Poster presentation at the “Brazilian day” of the German Service for Academic Exchange (DAAD).
Title:Weltrechtevolution in der Weltgesellschaft: Zur Politisierung von Inklusionsprobleme im transnationalen
Recht. University of Münster, Münster, Germany, April 2011.
Oral presentation: Workshop of legal sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
Title: Democratic Causality in the world society. At the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, April of 2011.
Oral presentation: Critical Legal Congress. Title: Social Exclusion and Global Constitutionalism. University of
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, September of 2010.
Oral Presentation: Institute for Global Law and Policy, “The Workshop”. Title: Social Exclusion and Global
Constitutionalism. At the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA, Juni of 2010.
Oral presentation: Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Flensburg University. Title: Recognition and normativity:
towards a hermeneutical transformation of critical theory. At the Flensburg University, Flensburg, Germany, April
of 2009.
Oral presentation: Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Flensburg University. -Title: Die Sittlichkeit der Ungleichheit:
Entwurf einer sozialen Diagnose zu den Institutionalisierungsbedingungen des Rechtsstaats in peripheren
Gesellschaften. (The ethical life of inequality: Outline a social diagnosis to the conditions of institutionalization of
Rule of Law in peripheral societies). At the Flensburg University, Flensburg, Germany,of 2008.
Oral Presentation: 3a. Semana de discussoes jurídicas das Faculdades Integradas do Recife (3rd annual week
of legal debates of the Faculdades Integradas do Recife).Title: Violência e cidadania no Brasil: um olhar a partir
da teoria do reconhecimento. (Social Violence and citizenship in Brazil: an approach from the standpoint of the
social theory of recognition). At the Faculdades Integradas do Recife, Recife, May of 2007.
Oral presentation: 31º Encontro anual da ANPOCS. (31st Annual meeting of the Brazilian national association for
sociology).Title: As lutas por reconhecimento e o Estado Democrático de Direito: transformação hermenêutica da
teoria crítica da sociedade. (Struggles for recognition and the democratic rule of law: an hermeneutical
transformation in the critical social theory). Caxambu/Brazil, October of 2007.
Oral presentation: 2nd International conference of the Brazilian Hegelian Society. Title: Eticidade e Socialização:
Para um conceito efetivo de racionalidade destranscendentalizada na Ética do Discurso. (Ethical Life and
socialization: Detranscendentalization of reason in Hegel and the effectiveness of legal argumentation theory
based on Discourse Ethics). At the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, August of 2005.
Oral presentation: 18th Congress of Brazilian of the Brazilian national association for legal research) (CONPEDI).
Title: A destranscendentalizacao da Ética do Discurso e a efetividade da teoria da argumentacao jurídica
(Detranscendentalization of Discourse Ethics for an effective legal argumentation theory). At the UNIFOR,
Fortaleza/Brazil, september of 2005.
Participation as delegate of the Student’s association of the Federal University of Pernambuco: Congresso da
Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (Congress of the Brazilian society for “the progress of
science”). At the UFG, Goiânia, june of 2002.
Oral presentation: 12th - Congress of researchers (CONIC). Title: Limitations and delimitations of social rights on
the Brazilian legal hermeneutics: Studies on an emancipatory law. At the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco,
Recife, 2003.
Oral presentation: 10th - Congress of researchers (CONIC). Title: The Linguistic Turn and the new paradigms of
legal epistemology. At the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2001.
Oral presentation: 9th - Congress of researchers (CONIC). Paradigms of Law in Post-Modernity. At the
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2000.