Justice
Delia Revoredo Marsano
“The Jurisdiction of Peru’s Constitutional Court” Justice Revoredo is one of three members of the
Constitutional Court of Peru who voted against former President
Alberto Fujimori’s
plan to seek a third term in 1997. Congress immediately dismissed
all three judges. In 1998, the government of Costa Rica granted
Justice Revoredo political asylum and, in 2000, the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights issued a protective order on her behalf.
She and her colleagues were reinstated by Congress in 2000, after
Fujimori’s departure.
-Justice Revoredo's official
biography on the Constitutional Court of Peru website
Monday, January 24, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Analysis
of the event
Justice Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes
“Recent Developments in Brazilian Public Law”
In 2003, Justice Barbosa became the first Afro-Brazilian
member of the Supreme Court of Brazil. After graduating from
law school,
he worked for several years as a procurator in the Federal Public
Ministry and subsequently obtained a master’s degree and
a doctorate in public law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
He has written extensively on affirmative action, race, equality
and comparative constitutional law.
- Article
from Sydney Morning Herald about Justice Barbosa's appointment
to the Supreme Court -Also part of the Rio Branco Forum on Brazil Tuesday, February 8, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Analysis
and photo
of the event
Justice
José Ramón Cossío Díaz
“Constitutional Actions in Mexico”
Justice Cossío joined the Mexican Supreme Court in 2003.
He is one of the top constitutional law scholars in Mexico and
has published many works on constitutionalism, democracy and the
rights of indigenous peoples. He has a master’s degree from
the Spanish Center for Constitutional Studies and a doctorate from
the Complutense University in Madrid.
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Paper by Justice Cossío Díaz, "Constitutional
Order and Hierarchy in Mexico"
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Paper by Justice Cossío Díaz (in Spanish), "Jurisdiccion
Constitucional y Reforma del Estado"
Friday, February 25, 4:00 pm
Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Professor Carlos Rosenkrantz
“Problems in Argentine Commercial Law”
Carlos Rosenkrantz is Professor of Law at the University
of Buenos Aires and Palermo University. He has an LL.M. and J.S.D.
from Yale
Law School and teaches regularly at the Hauser Global Law School
Program at New York University and the Pompeu Fabra University
in Barcelona. He served as former President Raúl Alfonsín’s
chief advisor at the 1994 Argentine Constitutional Convention.
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Paper by Professor Rosenkrantz, "In
Defense of Equality"
Monday,
April 4, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Congresswoman Denise Frossard
“Criminal Law and Corruption in Brazil”
National Congress of Brazil
In the early 1990s, Brazilian Congresswoman Denise
Frossard was the trial judge who convicted several of the most
prominent organized
crime bosses in Rio de Janeiro. After the judgment, she spent a
year in the United States, returning to head the Brazilian branches
of Transparency International and the Women’s Bank. In 2002,
she was elected Rio de Janeiro’s Representative to the Brazilian
Congress in a landslide, garnering more votes in that election
than any of her colleagues.
-Also
part of the Rio Branco
Forum on Brazil
Postponed
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