UCL Faculty of Laws

Comparative & Foreign Law, Public International Law, Public, Admin and Constitutional

• Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (UK Reporter)

Constitutional Law, Developing states, Human Rights, Parliamentary procedure, Public International Law, South America

• Brazilian Bar Association
• Association of Brazilian Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom
• Younger Comparativists Committee - The American Society of Comparative Law
• UCL Student Human Rights Programme
• The International Association of Constitutional Law
• UK Constitutional Law Group

• 2002 - 2004: Sao Paulo City Hall (Youth Projects Coordinator)
• 2003 - 2004: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil (Constitutional Law Assistant Lecturer)
• 2003 - 2008: IPESG-School of Government of São Paulo, Brazil (Lecturer in Human Rights)
• 2005 - 2006: São Paulo City Council (Legal Advisor)
• 2006 - 2008: Brazilian Senate, Office of the Leadership of the Federal Government (Senior Legal Advisor)
• 2007 - 2008: Processus Faculty of Laws, Brasília, Brazil (Lecturer in Constitutional Law)
• 2008 - 2009: UCL Centre on International Courts and Tribunals (Research Assistant)
• 2009 - 2009: The Law Society of England and Wales (Research Supervisor)
• 2010 : American College of Brazilian Studies, Orlando-USA (Lecturer in Constitutional Law)
• 2010 - 2011: Brazilian Ministry of Justice, Legislative Affairs Department (Senior Legal Advisor)
• 2010 - 2011: Opticon1826 (Laws Editor)
• 2012 : Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (UK Reporter)
• 2012 : European Student Law Journal for European and Comparative Law (Editor)

• The redundancy of subsidiarity? The rise of constitutional courts as the locus for international law decision-making: the case of South America. Hertie School of Governance European and Global Governance Cluster Workshop 26 November 2012, Berlin. (2012)
• The internationalization of Brazilian Law: the constitutional dialogue and the development of legal pluralism. 5th Congress of the Association of ABEP, 10/11/2012, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. (2012)
• Judicial dialogue and pluralism: the role of constitutional courts in the development of post-national law. Rights and Responsibilities: Global Perspectives, 14/06/2012, University of Sussex PhD Conference, School of Law, Politics and Sociology (2012)
• Judicial dialogue and pluralism: the role of constitutional courts in the development of international law. COST Action 1003 - International Law between Pluralismand Constitutionalism, University of Minho (Portugal) (2012)
• Judicial dialogue and pluralism: the role of constitutional courts in the development of global justice. The Politics of Justice: From a Human Rights Revolution to Global Justice?, 12 & 13/10/2012, The Hague Academic Coalition, The Hague, Netherlands. (2012)
• Incorporation of Treaties, Judicial Dialogue & Pluralsim: The Case of South America & the Constitutionalization of Human Rights, Third Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium 2&3/11/2012, Loyola Univ., Chicago, USA. (2012)

• The use of foreign sources as interpretive instruments for the incorporation of human rights via domestic constitutional cases: a civil law perspective. Queen Mary University of London PhD Conference “Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries” (2011)
• The changing nature and the role of the state: development trajectories in India-Brazil-South Africa. Comparative Perspectives' Seminar Series, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford (2011)
• Incorporation of treaties and normative hierarchy in domestic jurisdictions: the case of South America and the constitutionalisation of human rights. The European University Institute, “The vices and virtues of international constitutionalism” (2011)
• Comparing the use of comparative jurisprudence: how do courts implement foreign sources? A South American perspective. British Association of Comparative Law Workshop on the Use of Comparative Law in Postgraduate Research, University of Nottingham (2011)

• Immutable clauses and Judicial Review: the constitutional jurisprudence of India, Brazil and South Africa. University Westminster Graduate Conference “Law and Politics: Democracy, Human Rights and Power” (2010)

• The Abolition of Freedom Act 2009. The Convention on Modern Liberty, London (2009)

• The reception of International Human Rights Law into the Brazilian Legal System and the Constitutional Amendment n. 45/2004, Symposium “Persons with Disabilities Act and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: the current scenario”

• The congressional coup d'état in Paraguay, Socialist Lawyer n.62, Haldane Society. (2012)
• Review of Nollkaemper, André. “National Courts and the International Rule of Law” (OUP, Oxford, 2011), Legal Studies, Vol. 32 No. 3, September 2012, pp. 499–522 (2012)
• Case report: Khurts Bat v Investigating Judge of the Federal Court of Germany [2011] EWHC 2029 (Admin), ILDC 1779 (UK 2011). Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts. (2012)

• Review of Herrera, Clara Burbano. “Provisional Measures in the Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights” (Intersentia, Antwerpen, 2010), Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 11, issue 3, p. 603-606 (2011)
• Immutable clauses and judicial review in India, Brazil and South Africa: expanding constitutional courts’ authority. The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2011, pages 765–786 (2011)

• Jurisdictional dialogue on human rights and the rise of the international network of constitutional courts (book chapter in portuguese. Co-authored with Dr Roberto Dias, Book editors Daniel Sarmento and Flávia Piovesan

• The Youth Map of São Paulo (2003)

• Constitutional Law I. Digital book, in Portuguese (123 p.), American College of Brazilian Studies (2011)

• The Committees for Participative Legislation: implementation of the popular initiative in Brazil. Dissertation for the MSc in Political Science. University of Brasília (2008)