The 2022 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial Lecture, featuring Justice Luís Roberto Barroso

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Add to Calendar 2022-10-21 12:15:00 2022-10-21 13:20:00 The 2022 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial Lecture, featuring Justice Luís Roberto Barroso Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2022-ulysses-and-marguerite-schwartz-memorial-lecture-featuring-justice-luis-roberto-barroso - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public Friday, October 21, 2022 @ 12:15pm — 1:20pm
Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom

1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Open to the Law School community

Democracy, Social Media, and Free Expression

The social media allows unprecedented levels of connectivity, but also poses profound challenges to politics and society. Like other countries, Brazil has experienced these challenges in its democratic processes. Justice Barroso will present his views on these challenges and how electoral institutions can respond.

Justice Luís Roberto Barroso

The Honorable Luís Roberto Barroso is a Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil who began his term in 2013 and is also a Professor of Constitutional Law at Rio de Janeiro State University. He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School (1988-1989) and an S.J.D. from Rio de Janeiro State University (1990). He has written over twelve books on Brazilian constitutional law and several dozen articles, published in Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal, Colombia and Mexico. In the United States and in the UK, he has also published several articles, including: “In defense of the Amazon” (62 Harvard International Law Journal, 2021); “Technological Revolution, Democratic Recession and Climate Change: The Limits of Law in a Changing World” (18 International Journal of Constitutional Law 334, 2020); “Countermajoritarian, Representative, and Enlightened: The Role of Constitutional Courts in Democracies” (67 American Journal of Comparative Law 109, 2019); Democracy, Political Crisis, and Constitutional Jurisdiction: The Leading Role of the Brazilian Supreme Court, in Christine Lanfried (ed), Judicial Power, 2019; Reason without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Function of Constitutional Courts in Thomas Bustamante (ed.), Democratizing Constitutional Law, 2016; “Here, There, and Everywhere: Human Dignity in Contemporary Law and in the Transnational Discourse” (Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, 2012). He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2011) and is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School since 2018.

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The 2022 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial Lecture, featuring Justice Luís Roberto Barroso

Justice on Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court

By Quinn Baron