Vinícius Alves Barreto da Silva is a PhD student in Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has a Master of Theory and Philosophy of Law (2017) and a Bachelor of Law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2014.) He is Coordinator of the Justice Forum Project. He researches the relationship between globalization and the production of legal knowledge about developing countries. He also studies empirical research on political relations in institutions focused on an access to justice, particularly the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil and other Latin American countries.
