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Caroline Bolleta
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Bachelor’s in International Relations from Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Researcher in the group “Discourse, Social Media and Socio-political Identities” (CPDA-UFRRJ). She was a FAPERJ Fellow, researching the international coverage of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Currently, she is interested in the socio-environmental impacts of mining and international political economy. She is a member of the Justice Forum Project.
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Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho Carinhanha
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Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho Carinhanha is a mediator, artist, lawyer, and doctoral student in Law at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and in Social and Legal Sciences in the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She is also a researcher with the Research Group in Criminology (GPCRIM-UEFS/UNEB), the Research Group on Sexuality, Law and Democracy (SDD-UFF), and the research group Anastácia Bantu (UFF). She holds a Master of Criminology from the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the Université Catholique de Louvain (2014). She has graduated in Law from the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (2011) and in Arts, with an emphasis on Politics and Management of Culture, from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (2011). She is a member of Black Initiative for a New Drug Policy (INNPD).
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Ana Paula Sciammarella
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Ana Paula Sciammarella is a professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and holds a PhD and master’s in Sociology and Law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGSD/UFF). She is a researcher at the Research Center on Legal Practices and Institutions (NUPIJ/UFF). She is a member of the following research groups: Studies and Research in Social Struggles (NELUTAS/UNIRIO) and Sociology of Law (NSD/UFF). Her research holds an emphasis on issues related to gender, the judiciary, access to justice, and conflict management. She currently coordinates the Legal Practice Unit of UNIRIO and coordinates the Justice Forum Project.
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Élida Lauris
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Élida Lauris has a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Human Rights and Social Relations from Federal University of Pará, Brazil and has pursued doctoral studies at the Centre for Social Studies with the University of Coimbra. She was Executive Coordinator of the ALICE Project, developing her post-doctoral research at the University of Coimbra. She was Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Women, Racial Equality, and Human Rights in Brazil. She coordinated the Justice Forum and is currently coordinator of the NGO Terra de Direitos.
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Fabiana Severi
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Fabiana Severi is a professor in the undergraduate and master’s programs at the Public Law Department of the Ribeirão Preto’s Faculty of Law at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). She is professor of human rights at the FDRP-USP (2017). She is responsible for the disciplines of Law and Gender Relations, General Theory of the State, Human Rights, and Constitutional Law. She carries out research and activities related to the following topics: feminist legal criticism, access to justice for women, and democratic theories. She leads the USP Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy, and Inequalities. She also participates in the Lei Maria da Penha Law Consortium for the end of gender-based violence against women. She is a member of the research group Periferias with the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) of USP.
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José Ricardo Ferreira Cunha
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José Ricardo Ferreira Cunha is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He holds a Bachelor of Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1993), a Master’ Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1996), and a doctorate in law from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2003). His research has an emphasis on the philosophy of law and he works mainly on the subjects of human rights, judiciary, ethics, and law theory. He is Editor of the Law and Praxis Journal.
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Juanita Cuéllar Benavides
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Juanita Cuéllar Benavides holds a PhD in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ.) She also has a degree in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2006) and a Master of Social Sciences from the UFRRJ. She is a member of the Studies Group on Discourse at UFRRJ. Her main interests are the topics of access to land and agrarian reform from a Latin American perspective. She is currently professor at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia. She is member of the Justice Forum Project.
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Lucero Ibarra
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Lucero Ibarra is a professor-researcher at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE–Mexico). She holds a PhD in Law and Society at the University of Milan (2015), a Master of Sociology of Law at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2010), and an undergraduate degree in Law at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (2008). She is co-editor of Sortuz Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies and a founding member of the Latin American Network on Sociology of Law and the Collective Emancipations on Critical Studies of Law and the Humanities. She has developed and published research on intellectual property, cultural policy, women on the legal profession, and feminist mobilization.
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Mônica de Melo
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Mônica de Melo is currently an assistant professor of Constitutional Law in undergraduate and graduate studies at the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), and a public defender in the state of São Paulo. She is also a coordinator of the Justice Forum Project. She has experience in law, with an emphasis on constitutional law and works primarily on the following themes: human rights, discrimination, and women’s rights.
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1523530948557562
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Pierre Noreau
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Pierre Noreau is a full professor at the Université de Montréal’s Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) since 1998. A political scientist and jurist by training, his particular interests lie in sociology of law. His empirical research is concentrated on the functioning and evolution of the judicial system, non-contentious conflict resolution, access to justice and political mobilization of the law, ethno-cultural diversity from the perspectives of legal pluralism, as well as the study of institutionalization processes regulating social relationships. His recent work focuses on family mediation, community justice, how individuals in the penal system enact laws, the relationship between cultural communities, and the rights and conditions associated with interdisciplinary research in law. Pierre Noreau is a jurist with a doctoral degree from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.
https://droit.umontreal.ca/faculte/lequipe/corps-professoral/fiche/in/in14647/sg/Pierre%20Noreau/
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Raúl Llasag Fernandez
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Raúl Llasag Fernandez is kichwa of the Indigenous Panzaleo people from Ecuador which is part of the Confederation of Peoples of Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador (ECUARUNARI) and of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE.) He is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. He integrated the research project, “ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences” and studied “Indigenous Justice and Plurinationality” in Ecuador and Bolivia. He is a professor of plurinationality, multiculturalism, and indigenous justice at the Simon Bolivar Andean University, based in Ecuador.
https://www.ces.uc.pt/doutoramentos/util/info.php?id_lingua=1&id_doutoramento=8&id_investigador=621
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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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Rosy Laura Castellanos Mariano
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Rosy Laura Castellanos Mariano currently chairs the Institute for Research and Studies in Culture of Human Rights (CULTURA DH.) She is currently advisory councilor of the National Human Rights Commission in Mexico. Her professional career and experience have been in the field of non-governmental organizations, government institutions, and international organizations. She is the founder of Incide, Desarrollo y Strategias en Comunicación and belongs to the Network of Professors and Researchers in Human Rights and to the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at UNAM. She has acted as an advisor to several governments in Mexico and Latin America on the design of public policies that focus on human rights, gender, equality, and non-discrimination.
http://www.culturadh.org/pdfs/Semblanza_RosyLauraCastellanosMariano.pdf
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Vinícius Alves Barreto da Silva
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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.
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Ximena Cuadra Montoya
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Ximena Cuadra Montoya is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Her research topic focuses on Indigenous issues in socio-environmental conflict contexts. In particular, she is interested in the questions and responses of indigenous movements to extractivism. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Quebec in Montreal (2014). Her research thesis is entitled “Radical Pluralism and Decolonization in Indigenous Mobilizations Against the Extractive Industry: Analysis of Two Cases in Chile and Quebec”. She also holds a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Barcelona (2011) and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Concepción in Chile (2003).