Sturm College of Law News
Brazil’s “Father of Environmental Law” to Speak at SCOL
February 18, 2009
The Natural Resources and Environmental Law Society (NRELS), Land Use Law Society (LULS), Native American Law Students Association (NALSA), Construction Real Estate Law Society (CRELS) and International Law Society (ILS), invite you to a presentation and Q&A on “Brazilian Environmental Law” from 12:00-1:00 pm Tuesday February 24 in Room 125 (pizza while it lasts) by VLADIMIR PASSOS DE FREITAS, law professor and former Chief Judge of Brazil’s Federal Court of Appeals in southern Brazil and former Prosecutor in the States of Sao Paulo and Parana.
Dr. Freitas is visiting thanks to Professor Rock and Kitty Pring’s current global study of specialized Environmental Courts and Tribunals (ECTs). Brazil has some of the world’s best courts specially dedicated to environmental law, land use planning, indigenous peoples, real estate and development, and public health – ECTs created by Judge Freitas. Internationally respected, his public-interest lawsuits and prosecutions, court opinions, books, articles, and lectures have laid the foundation of Environmental Law in Brazil and influenced developments throughout Latin America. He is a consultant to the United Nations, World Conservation Union, and other public and public-interest groups, and lectures on Environmental Law around the world.