Biography
Rafael Cimatti Elias is a researcher with a background in civil liability within the French, Brazilian, and Roman legal systems. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Law (2018) and a Master's degree (“mestrado”) in Civil Law (2022) from the University of São Paulo's Faculty of Law (FDUSP). During this period, he taught as an assistant for courses in Roman Law I and II at the FDUSP's Civil Law Department (2014–2021), and worked as a research assistant for the elaboration of the Brazilian National Report on Copyright – WIPO (2020).
Currently, he is a PhD Candidate at the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, where his research focuses on the justifications for strict liability in French law. At the same university, he has also lectured on Law of Obligations, Special Contracts, and Introduction to Law and Civil Law (2023–2025).
Main Areas of Research
- French and Brazilian tort law
- Roman law
- Law of obligations
Selected Publications
- Propriedade e direito de autor - Fundamentos para a construção de limites e exceções no sistema de direito autoral brasileiro, Revista dos tribunais, nº 111, v. 1043, 2022, pp. 73-98. [Property and Copyright - Foundations for the Construction of Limits and Exceptions in the Brazilian Copyright System].
- with Julia Lambert Gomes Ferraz, Kawsak Sacha en tant que sujet de droits : défis pour une traduction juridique d'une vision amazonienne commune de “Forêt Vivante”, Taubira (coord.), Amazônias: espaço vivo, social, político, EDUSP, 2025, pp. 321-343. [Kawsak Sacha as a Subject of Rights: Challenges for a Legal Translation of a Shared Amazonian Vision of the ‘Living Forest’], available at: https://www.livrosabertos.edusp.usp.br/edusp/catalog/book/53
- with Daniel Pereira Campos, “Partes em contexto: a importância hermenêutica das partes nas opções de compra e venda de participações societárias”, Revista de Direito Mercantil Industrial, Econômico e Financeiro, vol. 182, 2024 pp. 15-46. [Parties in Context: The Hermeneutical Importance of Parties in Stock Purchase and Sale Options], available at: https://rdm.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/015-052.-CAMPOS-Daniel-Pereira-e-ELIAS-Rafael-Cimatti..Partes-em-contexto-a-importancia-hermeneutica-das-partes-nas-opcoes-de-compra-e-venda-de-participacoes-societarias.pdf
Presentations
- June 13, 2025: Le ‘perspectivisme amérindien’ et la Nature en tant que sujet de droits, Colloquium “La Nature”, University of Strasbourg [Amerindian Perspectivism and Nature as a Subject of Rights]
- February 10, 2025: La personnification des entités naturelles dans la perspective de la responsabilité civile : réflexions à partir de la Kawsak Sacha en Équateur, Doctoral Seminars for the Chair “Law, Culture and Society of Ancient Rome”, Collège de France [The Personification of Natural Entities from the Perspective of Civil Liability: Reflections from the Kawsak Sacha in Ecuador]
- November 15, 2024: Obstacles à la personnification des entités non humaines : une analyse pragmatique à la lumière de la structure et des fonctions de la responsabilité civile Colloquium “La Personnification : Perspectives Juridiques”, University of Perpignan Via Domitia [Obstacles to the Personification of Non-Human Entities: A Pragmatic Analysis in Light of the Structure and Functions of Civil Liability]
- May 15, 2024: La métaphore corporelle en droit : l'exemple de la traditio longa manu dans Iav. 10 epist., D. 46, 3, 79, Doctoral Seminars for the Chair “Law, Culture and Society of Ancient Rome”, Collège de France [The Corporeal Metaphor in Law: The Example of traditio longa manu in Iav. 10 epist., D. 46, 3, 79]
- March 24, 2023: L’aléa dans la responsabilité civile délictuelle – réflexions à partir d’Alf. 2 dig., D. 9, 2, 52, 2 , Colloquium, “L'aléa” - University of Lille [Risk in Delictual Civil Liability – Reflections from Alf. 2 dig., D. 9, 2, 52, 2.]
- May, 2022: Exégèse de Ulp. 1 ad ed. aedilium curulium, D. 21, 1, 35: L’approche juridique de la rédhibition parmi les enjeux patrimoniaux et moraux. Doctoral Seminars for the Chair “Law, Culture and Society of Ancient Rome”, Collège de France [Exegesis of Ulp. 1 ad ed. aedilium curulium, D. 21, 1, 35: The Legal Approach to Redhibition Amidst Patrimonial and Moral Stakes]