Taís Penteado is a J.S.D. candidate and Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. Taís holds LL.B. (2016), M.A. (2020), and Ph.D. (2025) degrees from FGV São Paulo Law School. Taís completed her LL.M. degree at Yale Law School (2022) and served as a Visiting Researcher (Fall 2023) and Fellow in Latin American Legal Studies (Winter 2024) in the same school, under the supervision of Professor Owen M. Fiss. Taís was also a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, in Freiburg, Germany (Fall, 2022).
Taís researches and writes about antisubordination-based approaches to equality, constitutional law, procedure and theory, democracy theories, political theory, critical legal theories, and fundamental rights in the Global South. She is also interested in the intersection between democratic theory and aesthetics (in particular, within the radical pragmatist tradition). Her J.S.D. dissertation seeks to advance a theory of adjudication grounded in radical conceptions of democracy, in which procedural design provides an infrastructure for building countervailing power and resisting domination.
Over the years, Taís’s work has been supported by Brazilian (São Paulo State Research Foundation, Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, FGV São Paulo Law School) and international (Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Yale Law School) institutions and agencies. She is the author of a book on abortion rights in Brazil, and her work has been published in high-impact journals, including the International Journal of Public Law (ICON), the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (2023), the Journal of Constitutional Research (2020), and many collections. In 2023, Taís was the winner of the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. She is also a lawyer, consultant, and associate editor for the International Society of Public Law Blog.
Doctoral Committee:
Professors Douglas NeJaime (chair), Reva Siegel (reader), Amy Kapczynski (reader), and Justin Driver (reader)
Independent Advisor: Professor Owen Fiss
Education:
Ph.D., FGV São Paulo Law School (2025)
LL.M., Yale Law School (2022)
M.A., FGV São Paulo Law School (2020)
LL.B., FGV São Paulo Law School (2016)
Contact:
tais.penteado@yale.edu.