Taís Penteado is a J.S.D. candidate and Tutor in Law at Yale Law School. Taís holds LL.B. (2016) and M.A. (2020) degrees from FGV São Paulo Law School, where she is currently finishing her Ph.D. Taís completed her LL.M. degree at Yale Law School (2022) and served as 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 equality (in particular, antisubordination-based approaches to law), constitutional law and theory, democracy theories, legal theory, and fundamental rights in the Global South (in particular, Brazil). Her J.S.D. dissertation seeks to reflect on the normative underpinnings of Brazilian Transformative Constitutionalism from critical perspectives, such as feminist, critical race, queer, law and political economy, and social transformation theories.
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, such as 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 and consultant.
Doctoral Committee:
Professors Douglas NeJaime (chair), Reva Siegel (reader), Amy Kapczynski (reader), and Justin Driver (reader)
Independent Advisor: Professor Owen Fiss
Education:
LL.M., Yale Law School (2022)
Ph.D., FGV São Paulo Law School (expected: 2024)
M.A., FGV São Paulo Law School (2020)
LL.B., FGV São Paulo Law School (2016)
Contact:
tais.penteado@yale.edu.