2005
Tuesday, February 8
4pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
"Recent Developments in Brazilian Public Law"
Justice Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes
Supreme Court of Brazil
(Formerly Law Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro)
In 2003, Justice Barbosa became the first Afro-Brazilian member of Brazil's Supreme Court. After graduating from law school, he worked for several years as a procurator in the Federal Public Ministry and subsequently obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in public law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He has written extensively on affirmative action, race, equality, and comparative constitutional law.
Robbins Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal Tradition
Current Issues and New Perspectives in Latin American Law
Spring 2005
For several years, the Robbins Collection at the School of Law has sponsored the Robbins Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal Tradition, an ongoing series of guest lectures by distinguished scholars of comparative and international law and legal history. During the Spring 2005 semester, our focus for this lecture series was current issues and new perspectives in Latin American law, and we were able to bring a truly illustrious roster of speakers to Boalt during the course of the semester: Peruvian Supreme Court Justice Delia Revoredo, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Joaquim Barbosa Gomes, Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz, and Professor Carlos Rosenkrantz, former advisor to Argentinean President Raúl Alfonsín. This well-attended and productive lecture series, sponsored in cooperation with the Center for Latin American Studies, provided a unique opportunity for the Boalt and campus communities to learn about and discuss firsthand with some of Latin America's foremost judicial and legal authorities the most pressing issues of justice, society and constitutionalism facing their countries today and represents an important contribution to the efforts of the law school and the university to foster intellectual cooperation and exchange strengthen our institutional ties with Latin America.
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