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Ab Currie
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Ab Currie, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Toronto) is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice where he is mainly involved in research on various topics related to the everyday legal problems experienced by the public. He is also presently conducting research with a number of community legal clinics in Ontario on innovations in service delivery based on outreach, on building community capacity to be partners with legal aid in providing access to justice services and on holistic and integrated service. Prior to joining the Canadian Forum Ab was Principal Researcher at the Department of Justice Canada where he conducted research in legal aid and other areas of access to justice for more than three decades. He has conducted extensive research in criminal and civil legal aid, including unmet need for criminal legal aid and four national legal needs studies in Canada.
http://internationallegalaidgroup.org/index.php/conferenecs/ottawa-2019/delegates/68-ab-currie
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Abraham Blanco
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Abraham Blanco is a lawyer and professor in International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Family Law, Philosophy, Constitutional Procedural Law, and Venezuelan Sign Language. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Management of Intellectual Creation at the National Experimental University Simón Rodríguez (UNESR). He is a distinguished public defender, assisting in the protection of children and youth, with the Public Defender’s Office of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He is an undergraduate and postgraduate professor in Child and Adolescent Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Criminal Law at the National Experimental University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA) and the Latin American and Caribbean University (ULAC). He is the founding professor of the National School of the Public Defender’s Office. He is also a permanent collaborator in the itinerant diploma courses of the Ombudsman’s Office of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the National School of Human Rights, and the Juan Vives Suriá Foundation of the Ombudsman’s Office.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-blanco-a28077b3/?originalSubdomain=ve
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Adriane da Silveira Seixas
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Bachelor in law from the Milton Campos Law School. Postgraduate studies in civil procedural law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. Master ‘s student in law at the Universidade Positivo (2019/2021). Public Defender of the State of Minas Gerais.
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Ana María Blanco
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Lawyer. Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences (Uncuyo). Student of Profamag (Escuela Judicial de la Nación). Specialist in teacher’s learning (UTN). Researcher. Co-defender of the First Criminal Defense Office (3rd CJ). Former Criminal co-judge of young people with instructional and correctional powers (4th CJ). Visiting Professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). Professor of Human Rights and Guarantees Chair and of the General Principles of Law Chair (Universidad de Congreso UC). Speaker and Secretary-Rapporteur of the Juvenile Criminal Law Commission in various international Congresses of the Alamfpyonaf. Member of the Asociación de Defensores Públicos de la República Argentina (Adepra), and its representative at the meeting of the MERCOSUR official Public Defender Block (Blodepm), Santiago de Chile. Member of the Association of Magistrates of Mendoza and of Alampfyonaf. Author of papers on criminal law and juvenile criminal law at national and international conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-mar%C3%ADa-blanco-2018/?originalSubdomain=ar
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Ana Silvia Evangelista Ferreira
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Bachelor of laws from the Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Postgraduate studies in Tax Law and Tax Procedure from the Universidade Positivo. Master ‘s student in law at the Universidade Positivo (2019/2021). Lawyer at the Practice group at the Universidade Positivo.
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Ângelo Magalhães Silva
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Professor at the Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido (UFERSA). Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. in Social Sciences in the field of Politics, Development and Society, by the Graduate Program in Social Sciences of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Permanent Professor of the Professional Master’s Degree Program in Public Administration (PROFIAP), at the Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido. Permanent professor of the Academic Master’s Program in Planning and Territorial Dynamics in the Semiarid Region (PLANDITES), of the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN). Coordinator of the Study Group in Development (GEDEN) of the Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido (UFERSA).
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Bernard dos Reis Alô
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Bernard dos Reis Alô holds a Masters in Legal and Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and a Bachelor of Law from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is a Federal Public Defender with the 1st Civil and Social Security Office of the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Niterói. He is the author of the book The Role of the Public Defenders’ Office in the De-judicialization of Health. His focus is on themes related to access to justice and legal demands against the Public Administration, with an emphasis on dejudicialization and alternative methods of conflict resolution.
https://www.escavador.com/sobre/3514019/bernard-dos-reis-alo
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Brandon D. Stewart
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Brandon D. Stewart is an Assistant Professor in the English Common Law Section (2021-2023) and a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa (Silver Medal) and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to entering academia, Professor Stewart practiced as a commercial litigator in Toronto and worked as a research fellow for a community legal clinic.
Professor Stewart has taught in the English Common Law Section since 2019 and was a full-time Instructor at the Schulich School of Law during the 2020-2021 academic year, where he was the recipient of the Hannah and Harold Barnett Excellence in Teaching First Year Law Award. He has taught courses on torts, toxic torts, property, civil procedure and climate change litigation.
Professor Stewart is a progressive private law and access to justice scholar. His research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed law journals and edited books and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (offered, but declined) and a McMillan International Dissertation Fellowship. Some research projects Professor Stewart is currently working on – in between Netflix binges and watching the Ottawa Senators lose hockey games – include: (1) the development of sustainable, climate-conscious financial regulations; (2) improving service delivery models within community legal clinics to address the access to civil justice gap; and (3) using insights from positive psychology to develop teaching pedagogies that promote law student wellbeing.
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Camilo Zufelato
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Bachelor in Law from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2002), has a master’s degree in Master Universitario II Livello – Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (2006) and doctorate in Procedural Law from the Universidade de São Paulo, Largo de São Francisco Law School (2008). He is currently a professor of Civil Procedure Law at the Universidade de São Paulo Law School in Ribeirão Preto.
http://www.direitorp.usp.br/docentes/camilo-zufelato/
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Claudia Jaimes
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Claudia Jaimes is a teacher and interpreter of Venezuelan Sign Language. She has a diploma in the Sathya Sai Program of Human Values from the International Sathya Sai Institute and a diploma in Venezuelan Sign Language from the National School of Human Rights of the Juan Vives Suriá Foundation. She has a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Pedagogy Institute of Caracas at the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University (UPEL), where she now teaches. She is a doctoral candidate in the Area of Management for Intellectual Creation at the National Experimental University Simón Rodríguez. She is a National Tutor of the Venezuelan Sign Language Interpreting Learning Communities (UNSER). She is President and Co-Founder of the Venezuelan Sign Language Interpreters and Guide Interpreters for the Deafblind Association (ASOIVE). She is also a teacher at both the National School of the Magistracy and the National School of Human Rights of the Juan Vives Suriá Foundation in association with the Ombudsman’s Office.
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Cleber Francisco Alves
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Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where he teaches Procedural Law and Topics on Access to Justice. He received his PhD in Law (2005) from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (his doctoral thesis is a comparative study about “Legal Aid in the United States, in France and in Brazil”). He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Baltimore, USA (2003) and at the Université de Montpellier, France (2004), and at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, UK (2015). He is also a Public Defender of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Universidade Católica de Petrópolis (1999-2002), where he was coordinator of the M.Sc. Program in Human Rights, Law Procedures and Access to Justice. Currently he is a researcher at the PPGSD-UFF (Graduate Program in Sociology and Law).
http://pesquisadores.uff.br/researcher/cleber-francisco-alves
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Fedora Mathieu
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Fedora Mathieu is a Haitian-Canadian Immigration and Refugee lawyer in Canada. She is a member of the Barreau du Québec since 2012 and of the Law Society of Ontario since 2017. A graduate from the Université de Montréal, she articled at the Human rights tribunal of Quebec. She received an LL.M from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Her thesis focused on the accountability of Humanitarian Non-State Actors in post-catastrophic settings. She completed field work in post-earthquake Haiti and used the implementation of housing rights as a case study. Her thesis was awarded the René-Lupien Prize, awarded annually for the best master’s thesis on a subject of special interest to the Canadian francophone community. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Mathieu has worked as a private practitioner in Montreal and Toronto with a focus on vulnerable communities. She has assisted numerous refugee claimants with their immigration procedures, namely with their refugee claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Since February 2019, she works in Ottawa as a staff lawyer with Legal Aid Ontario.
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Geneviève Audet
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Geneviève Audet is a professor in the Department of Specialized Education and Training at the Faculté des sciences de l’éducation at Quebec University in Montreal. Audet is Chairholder of the Research Chair on Diversity Issues in Education and Training, and a regular researcher at University Institute SHERPA. She is interested in intercultural education, school- immigrant family-community relations and school staff professional development in this context.
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Gloria Song
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Gloria Song is a Ph.D. candidate in law, studying access to justice for domestic violence issues under Dr. Angela Cameron and Dr. Jackie Dawson as part of the Change and Economic Development in Arctic Canada research team at the University of Ottawa. She leads international engagement at Polar Knowledge Canada (formerly the Canadian Polar Commission) working in research policy, as well as serving as a project coordinator for the Law Society of Nunavut. Gloria clerked at the Federal Court for the Honourable Mr. Justice Leonard Mandamin, and then practiced as a poverty lawyer for the Legal Services Board of Nunavut while based in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She has worked on access to justice issues in domestic violence at the Legal Assistance Centre’s Gender Research and Advocacy Project in Windhoek, Namibia as part of the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyers International Program. She continued researching these themes in Georgetown, Guyana as the 2016 Governance and Justice Research Award recipient through the International Development Research Centre. Gloria was the recipient of the Shirley Greenberg Scholarship in feminist law in 2018 and was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level in 2019.
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Inara Flora Cipriano Firmino
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She holds a master ‘s degree from the Law School of Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, under the supervision of the associate professor Fabiana Cristina Severi and co-supervision of professor Dra. Thula Rafaela de Oliveira Pires. She has a Law Degree from Law School from Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (2016). She is a member of the Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy and Inequalities.
https://www.escavador.com/sobre/6162765/inara-flora-cipriano-firmino
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Janeson Vidal de Oliveira
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Attorney. Master ‘s in Planning and Territorial Dynamics in the Semiarid Region, from the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) at the Advanced Campus Profa. Maria Elisa Albuquerque Maia (CAMEAM). Bachelor ‘s in law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Central Campus.
https://www.escavador.com/sobre/6302324/janeson-vidal-de-oliveira
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Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly
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SJD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar.
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Jesús E. Sanabria-Moyano
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Professor at the Law School of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Researcher of the “Public Law” group and of “the international law, Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law” line of the Center for Legal, Political and Social Research of the Bogotá School of Law of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Lawyer from the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia). Specialist in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law applied to armed conflicts at the Escuela de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario del Ejército Nacional (Colombia). Holds a Master’s degree in Military Public Law from Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia).
https://www.funcionpublica.gov.co/web/sigep/hdv/-/directorio/M1558282-5258-4/view
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Lucas França Tavares Moura
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Law student at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Holds a Scientific Initiation Scholarship (UNIRIO) and is a member of the Amarildo de Souza Popular Legal Assistance Center (NAJUP/UNIRIO) and the Center for Studies and Research in Social Issues. (NELUTAS).
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Luisa Fernanda García Lozano
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Professor at the School of Law of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Researcher of the “Public Law” group and of the “Constitution, Public Law and State” research line. Ph.D.Candidate in Law, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia). Master’s in Sociology of Law, Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (País Vasco), lawyer from the Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia).
https://www.funcionpublica.gov.co/web/sigep/hdv/-/directorio/M1300272-5258-4/view
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Maurício Buosi Lemes
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Holds a bachelor of Social Sciences from Law School of Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (FDRP/USP) and a Master of Science (main area: Development in the Democratic State of Law) from the Postgraduate Program in Law at FDRP/USP. Currently, is a Ph.D. student in Law at the postgraduate program in Law and Development at the São Paulo School of Law of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV Direito SP), developing research on public policies for access to justice and Institutional capacities of the Specialized Centers of the Public Defender’s Office of the State of São Paulo.
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Melina Girardi Fachin
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Was a postdoctoral visiting Fellow at Human Rights Center of the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). Ph.D. in Constitutional Law for the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP). Adjunct professor in the undergraduate and graduate courses at the Faculty of Law at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Coordinator of the Center for Human Rights Systems Research. (NESIDH) and of the Center for Constitutional Studies (CCONS), both from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).
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Melisa Handl
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Melisa Handl is an Argentine lawyer and a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Canada). Her research interests include gender, development, qualitative research, and international human rights. She also completed a MA in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada). Melisa is currently investigating whether conditional cash transfers are contributing to greater gender equality in the context of Argentina, and intends to connect a top-down approach to international human rights with the experiences of actual beneficiary women on the ground.
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Patrícia Carlos Magno
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Patrícia Carlos Magno is a Public Defender of the State of Rio de Janeiro since 2001, currently, she is member of the Penitentiary System group. She is a researcher attached to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (LADIH/UFRJ) and the Critical Theory of Human Rights Research Group (CNPq). She is a founding member of the Fórum Justiça and ColetivA Mulheres Defensoras Públicas. Master in Law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and is a Ph.D. in Human Rights at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a doctoral internship at the Center for Social Studies at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Was awarded Honorable Mention in the XIV CONADEP – National Congress of Public Defenders- thesis contest (2019), with the thesis “In search of the emancipatory institutional potential of the Public Defender: reflections and propositions on the Challenge of building institutional markers for increasing the three-dimensionality of access to justice”, which was adapted to an article for this collective work.
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Rodolfo Liberato Noronha
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Professor at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Master ‘s and Ph.D. in Sociology and Law from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Coordinator of the Amarildo de Souza People’s Legal Assistance Center (NAJUP/UNIRIO) and the Center for Studies and Research in Social Struggles (NELUTAS).
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Rola Koubeissy
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Rola Koubeissy is a postdoctoral fellow and instructor in the Département d’éducation et formation spécialisées at the Faculté des sciences de l’éducation at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the Université de Montréal. She is interested in teachers’ professional development on issues related to diversity and social justice in the areas of education, intercultural pedagogy, critical pedagogy and socio-academic integration of immigrant students in a multi-ethnic context.
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Sandra Lia Leda Bazzo Barwinski
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Lawyer. Master in Law from the International University Center UNINTER. Graduated from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR). Co-coordinator of the Latin American Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights – CLADEM / Brazil. Vice-president of the OAB / PR Commission on Studies on Gender Violence.
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Simone Alvarez Lima
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Doctor in Law, in the line of Fundamental Research and New Rights from the Universidade Estácio de Sá; postgraduate studies in Civil Law and Constitutional Law; lawyer; professor at the graduate program in Law and at the postgraduate program in Sociology and philosophy at the Universidade Estácio de Sá; Leader of the Research Group Emancipating Minorities. Member of the International Law Commission of the OAB/RJ.
