Helena H. Funari is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School whose research bridges political theory, electoral law, constitutional law, and data science. She investigates how courts and election rules shape democratic accountability—especially through campaign-finance design, party competition, and institutional safeguards.
Helena has served as a Researcher on projects in comparative constitutional and election law, a Teaching Assistant in data science applied to law, and a Professor for a constitutional jurisprudence workshop. As a Policy Researcher, she has led empirical studies, guided small research teams, and translated findings into actionable briefs on the judiciary, elections, and institutional design. Her current agenda connects normative commitments from political theory to mixed-methods empirical analysis. Most recently, she has worked on text-data processing.
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School,
Ph.D. candidate in Law (FGV Brazil)
M.Sc. in Political Science
LL.B. from the University of São Paulo
Contact Information
Helena.himefunari@yale.edu