João Freitas Mendes

João Freitas Mendes (b. 1992, Portugal) is a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since September 2022. He was a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt) and the University of London (Birkbeck). In his doctoral work, he criticizes legal sociability and proposes non-commercial sociability as a response. He lectured Law at Universidade de Lisboa between 2020 and 2022. His philosophical curiosity goes from Kierkegaard and anxiety to Richard Rorty and socialism. He published a book of poems (“Porquê não sei ainda”, 2019) and "Princípio da Injustiça" (2021). João can sometimes be watched reading fiction books or writing about literature and poetry as a distraction from his obsessive enterprise of localizing new bibliographical references."

Contact: joao dot tiago dot freitas dot mendes at vub dot be 

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