Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann, born in 1971, is a professor of legal theory at the National Law School (FND) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a PhD in philosophy from UFRJ, one PhD and two Postdocs in law from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universit�t Heidelberg. She is the coordinator of the Research Group on Theory of Human Rights (NTDH). Her field of research is interdisciplinary and has been focusing on the relation between law, philosophy and the arts.