Professor at the School of Public Policy and Government of Fundação Getulio Vargas, in Brasília. Full Collaborating Researcher at the Psychology Institute of the University of Brasília. PhD in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and PhD in Law from the University of Aberdeen, UK. Master in Philosophy and Bachelor of Law from the Federal University of Goiás. National Treasury Attorney, retired, having worked for 16 years in the Financial Affairs Consultancy of the Ministry of Economy. His current academic interests focuses on the following topics: Law as a System of Cultural Practices, Behavioral Analysis of Law, Economic Analysis of Law, Law as a Complex Evolutionary System, Sociology of the Law of Science, Philosophy of Law, Hermeneutics and Legal Argumentation, Law as Verbal Behavior, Law as an Autopoietic Social System, Social Systems, Niklas Luhmann's Social Thought, Public Finance, Academic Writing and Informal Logic.