Virgílio Afonso da Silva is Professor of constitutional law at the Law School of the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the Constitution, Politics & Institutions, Política & Instituições research group (constituicao.direito.usp.br). É doutor em Direito pela Universidade de Kiel, Alemanha. He was visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was awarded a fellowship by the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development. His publications include The Constitution of Brazil: a contextual analysis (Oxford, Hart 2019) and Direito constitucional brasileiro (São Paulo, Edusp 2021).