About

I am currently a law clerk to Justice Frank Gaziano at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Before the clerkship, I spent the better part of a decade jointly enrolled in the University of Arizona’s PhD program in philosophy and the JD program at Harvard Law School, finishing the JD in 2025 and the PhD in 2026.

I write about private law theory and legal interpretation, approaching both with the tools of analytic philosophy and linguistics. A central premise of my work is that the law often gives institutional form to ideas that are part of ordinary moral and linguistic practice. We can better understand the law by understanding how much, and in what ways, it is shaped by those ideas.

Prior to Harvard and the UofA, I received an MA and a BA in philosophy from UW-Milwaukee and the University of Chicago respectively. Before that, I spent the first 19 years of my life in my hometown of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, taking pictures (I still do), eating pão de queijo (I wish I still did), and trying to figure out what I had to do to study political science in the United States. I carried with me my passion for writing and acting out stories through games, feeding friends fried foods for fun, and alliterations.

I'm always happy to talk about ideas. Feel free to reach out by email.