Director
Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida
Professor of International Law and EU Law, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Rio de Janeiro (since 2008). Director of the Centre for Global Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School. Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-South America Global Governance, sponsored by the European Commission (2019-2023) and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-Latin America Global Challenges, sponsored by the European Commission (2023-2026). Associate Researcher at the Institute of International and European Law at the Sorbonne (IREDIES). Permanent Professor of the stricto sensu Graduate Programme of the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Rio de Janeiro. Qualified as ‘maître des conferences’ in Public Law (France, CNU). Nominated Brazilian Member of the International Law Association Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals. Chair of the Interest Group on ‘International Courts and Tribunals’ of the Latin American Society of International Law (LASIL). Doctorate with honours summa cum laude in International and European Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité, recommandé à des prix de thèse et à des subventions à la publication). Masters of Law (Master II Recherche – former DEA) in Public International and European Law – Université Paris XI, Faculté Jean Monnet. Researcher at the Centre d’études et de recherche en droit international et relations internationales de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye (2010). Postdoctoral visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2014) and at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (2014). Visiting professor at the École de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2019). Visiting professor at the Summer School European Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (since 2017). Visiting professor at the International Studies Programme of the Master’s Degree in International and European Law at the Porto School of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (since 2023).
Researchers
João Wagner Barroso de Oliveira
Master’s student in Applied Linguistics in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PIPGLA/UFRJ). Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
Tássia de Oliveira Sodré
LLM from New York University School of Law, Master of Arts from the University of London School of Advanced Studies, and a post-graduate lato sensu from Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ). Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
Mariana Mariani
LL.M in International Law at the University of Glasgow with specialisation in International Sustainability at the Leuphana University. MSc in Political Science at IBEI. Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
Lucas Lemos da Silva Walmrath Reis
PhD candidate in Human Sciences (Sociology) at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA-UFRJ). Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
Bianca Martins da Costa Quintas
Master in International Political Economy from the Graduate Program in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PEPI-UFRJ). Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
Vitor Furtado de Melo
Lawyer, Master in Political Science and Msc candidate in Social Anthropology, Researcher at FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law.
