THE PARTICIPANTS
Conference Speakers and Moderators
Luís Roberto Barroso
Keynote Speaker: "Rule of Law, Combating Corruption and Setting an Agenda for the Future" 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... |
George Avelino
Title of Presentation: Democracy, Political Parties and the Rule of Law George Avelino is an associated professor at FGV, and the current coordinator of FGV-CEPESP (Center of Politics and Economics of the Public Sector - http://fgv.br/cepesp/en). His research has focused on political aspects of public policy in a comparative way... |
Taylor Boas
Title of Presentation: "Norms versus Action: Voting Against Malfeasance in Brazil" Taylor Boas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Boston University and, during 2017-18, a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University... |
James Cavallaro
Professor James Cavallaro, the founding director of Stanford Law School’s International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, has dedicated his career to human rights—in both his scholarly research and his legal practice. His extensive expertise is derived from active involvement in the defense of rights... |
Francis Fukuyama
Title of Presentation: "Too much Rule of Law?" Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is professor (by courtesy) of political science. |
Manoel Gehrke
Title of Presentation: "Media Publicity as Deterrence to Mayoral Corruption in Brazil" Manoel Gehrke is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at UCLA. His dissertation research examines political corruption and accountability in Brazil and in Colombia. He uses quasi-experimental designs to study how politicians react to removals of corrupt politicians... |
Miriam Golden
Title of Presentation: "Does the Rule of Law Reduce Wrongoing by Politicians?" Miriam Golden is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of three books, including the recently-published Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2017)... |
Erik G. Jensen
Title of Presentation: "Separating Power and the Global Rule of Law Recession" Erik Jensen holds joint appointments at SLS and Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is Professor of the Practice, Director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School, an Affiliated Core Faculty at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law... |
Marcus Melo
Title of Presentation: "A Strong Leash for a Big Dog: Delegation of Powers to Check Institutions" Marcus Andre Melo is a Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco and a former Fulbright Scholar at MIT. He was a Coca-Cola Company Visiting professor at Yale University, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and a resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation... |
Dinsha Mistree
Title of Presentation: "Corruption Among National Champions: Comparing the Recent Experiences of Brazil and Korea" Dr. Dinsha Mistree is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. His research focuses on understanding why the effectiveness of government agencies varies within the same political systems. |
Vinicius Mota
Vinicius Mota is Managing Editor at Folha de S.Paulo, Brazilian leading quality newspaper in readership. He is also a weekly columnist for political and economic affairs. Previously at Folha, where he has been working at since 1998, he was Editorialist, International Editor and Opinion Editor... |
Nara Pavão
Title of Presentation: "Corruption, Horizontal Accountability and Public Opinion in Brazil" She is a Visiting Professor in the Political Science Department at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. During the 2015–2016 academic year, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI)... |
Carlos Pereira
Title of Presentation: "A Strong Leash for a Big Dog: Delegation of Powers to Check Institutions" Carlos Pereira is a full professor in the Brazilian School of Administration – EBAPE at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro. Currently, he is Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University. He was a visiting scholar at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution, and a research fellow at University of Oxford. |
Julio Ríos-Figueroa
Title of Presentation: "Informal Institutions and Judicial Indipendence: A Comparison of Brazil and Mexico" Julio Ríos-Figueroa is Associate Professor of Political Science at CIDE, in Mexico City. His work focuses on comparative judicial institutions and the rule of law... |
Lucio R. Renno
Title of Presentation: "Abuse of Power in Brazil: The Current Debate and Some Evidences" Lucio R. Renno is Associate (Associado) Professor in the Political Science Institute of the University of Brasilia and a National Research Council (CNPq) 1D Researcher of the Brazilian government. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science... |
Jonathan Rodden
Title of Presentation: Jonathan Rodden is a professor in the political science department at Stanford who works on the comparative political economy of institutions. He is currently working on a number of papers and a book about the geographic distribution of political preferences and partisanship in the United States and other countries ... |
Ben Ross Schneider
Title of Presentation: "The Rise and Fall of New Developmentalism Under the PT" Ben Ross Schneider is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT-Brazil program. Prior to moving to MIT, Schneider taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University... |
William Summerhill
Title of Presentation: "Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Emergence of Ministerial Responsibility: the origins of executive constraints in Imperial Brazil" William Summerhill is Professor of History, and Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair in Latin American Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A historian of Brazil, his research interests include the political economy of sovereign debt, credit markets, schooling and human capital, railroads and infrastructure, and inequality... |
Diego Werneck
Title of Presentation: The Court is I? Individual Judicial Powers and Their Implications for Democracy Diego Werneck Arguelhes is a Professor of Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FGV Direito Rio), and is currently a Hauser Global Research Fellow at NYU Law School (Fall 2017)... |
ABOUT THE CONFERENCEThe conference will be held at Stanford University on Thursday, December 7 (Crown Room 180) and Friday December 8, 2017 (in the Manning Faculty Lounge)
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LOCATION |
CONTACTBolivar House
582 Alvarado Row Stanford, CA 94305 Phone: (650)723-4444 Fax: (650)723-9822 Email: [email protected] |