BRAZILIAN FACULTY AFFILIATES

The list below is just a sampling of the wide range of Brazilian faculty affiliates who participate in Summer Legal & Policy Study in Rio de Janeiro.

Humberto Dalla is a state prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro who has a doctorate in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).  A specialist in constitutional law and civil procedure, Dr. Dalla teaches at several top law schools, including UERJ.

Pedro Ferraz is on the faculty at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Florian Fabian Hoffmann teaches human rights law at PUC-Rio.

José Antonio Nascimento is a researcher at the federal Brazilian Institute of Statistics and Geography.  He has degrees in environmental engineering and in geography from the Federal university of Rio de Janeiro.

Rodolfo Noronha, Esq., was a staff attorney with the Balcão de Direitos, a project of the non-governmental organization Viva Rio, which works in over of 30 of Rio de Janeiro’s poorest communities to promote community development. Mr. Noronha is a graduate of University Bennett and has a post-graduate qualifiacation in Human Rights Management.

Karin Ozón  is a practicing lawyer who received an LL.M. from New York University.  She runs the environmental law certificate program in the law program at the Fundação Geútulio Vargas.

Sergio Potsch is a Professor of Biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro who has been working in the Atlantic Rainforest for over 30 years.

Solange Teles da Silva holds a PhD in Law from the University of Paris, Sorbonne.  She teaches environmental law at the Catholic University of Santos (São Paulo State) and at the Federal University of Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon Basin.  She writes widely on Brazilian law and policy.

Fernando Cavalcanti Walcacer is aProfessor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Nucleus and Coordinator of the Environmental Law Post-Graduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University School of Law in Rio de Janeiro.