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Thomas Bustamante is Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. He is currently a Global Research Fellow at the New York University, from 2020 to 2022. He holds a PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro. Some of his works in English appear in the Jurisprudence, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Modern Law Review, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy and German Law Journal. He has edited the books Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays in the Jurisprudence of Gerald J Postema (with Thiago L Decat 2020), Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism (with Bernardo Fernandes, 2016), Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation (with Christian Dahlman, 2015) and On the Philosophy of Precedent (with Carlos Bernal Pulido, 2012).