The Honorable Luís Roberto Barroso, a Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court who began his term in June 2013, is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Rio de Janeiro State University. He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School (1988-1989) and an SJD from Rio de Janeiro State University, School of Law (1990). He has written over ten books on Brazilian Constitutional Law and several dozen articles, published in Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. In the United States, he has published two articles: “Here, There, and Everywhere: Human Dignity in Contemporary Law and in the Transnational Discourse” (Boston College
International and Comparative Law Review, 2012) and “The Americanization of Constitutional Law and Its Paradoxes: Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Jurisdiction in the Contemporary World” (ILSA Journal of International and
Comparative Law, 2010). He also wrote the chapter “Reason without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Functions of Constitutional Courts” (in Thomas Bustamante and Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes eds., Democratizing Constitutional Law, Springer, 2016). He has been Visiting Lecturer at Poitier University, in France (2010), and at Wroclaw University, in Poland (2009), and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2011).
International and Comparative Law Review, 2012) and “The Americanization of Constitutional Law and Its Paradoxes: Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Jurisdiction in the Contemporary World” (ILSA Journal of International and
Comparative Law, 2010). He also wrote the chapter “Reason without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Functions of Constitutional Courts” (in Thomas Bustamante and Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes eds., Democratizing Constitutional Law, Springer, 2016). He has been Visiting Lecturer at Poitier University, in France (2010), and at Wroclaw University, in Poland (2009), and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2011).