Professor Brian Z. Tamanaha is a renowned jurisprudence and law and society scholar, and the author of ten books and over seventy-five articles and book chapters. His latest books are Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law (Cambridge 2022) and Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences (Oxford 2021).

Breno Bringel is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) since 2011, with a permanent position since 2014. In 2022 he was awarded the ‘Talento Investigador’ excellence programme of the Community of Madrid, in the framework of which he is currently developing a research project on social movements and the geopolitics of ecosocial transitions at the Complutense University of Madrid and coordinates the Observatorio de Geopolítica y Transiciones Ecosociales.

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