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Dr Renato Costa joined the T. C. Beirne School of Law as an LLM student in 2018. Before undertaking his studies at the University of Queensland, he practised as a lawyer in one of Brazil's most prominent law firms. Renato specialises in constitutional and comparative law. His research focus is constitutional theory and specific aspects of the Australian constitutional system, including the rule of law, federalism, constitutional history, religious freedom and human rights, political and legal theology, and jurisprudence.

Renato graduated with an LLB from the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, in Brazil. He holds a PhD and an LLM from T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. Renato is one of the editors of the University of Queensland Law Journal (UQLJ), and a fellow of UQ's Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL).