Visiting Scholars

Spring Semester, 2012

isabel_lima_web Professor Isabel Maria Sampaio Oliveira Lima, the third recipient of the Notre Dame-Brazilian Fulbright Foundation fellowship, has been as a tenured Professor at the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSal), in the state of Bahia, since 1996. She teaches children’s rights and human rights in the Ph.D. and Masters programs on Family in Contemporary Society at UCSal. She is also an Associate Professor at the Public Health Institute at Federal University of Bahia, in Health and Human Rights. Prof. Lima also coordinates a research group on human rights, the right to health and the family since 2002. Prior to her career in academia, she was a member of the bench, as a state judge, for 15 years. She also worked in East Timor (2007-2009) as a consultant for UNICEF and the Timorese Ministry of Justice. She is a member of the Judges for Democracy Association in Brazil. While at Notre Dame, Prof. Lima will pursue a research project titled “Children’s Rights and the Right to Health: Human Rights Challenges in Brazil.”

Spring Semester, 2011

Professor Jayme Benvenuto Professor Jayme Benvenuto is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Legal Sciences at the Catholic University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. By agreement with our Center for Civil and Human Rights, he was awarded the second in a series of five annual research fellowships by the Brazilian Fulbright Foundation. His research involves, among other topics, the relationship between democracy and human rights, and the relationship between the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the domestic political context of the countries involved. He will be in 3359 Biolchini Hall until mid-April.

Judge Narciso Baez Judge Narciso Baez, a federal judge in the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina, is also a Professor of Constitutional Law in the law faculty of the University of the West of Santa Catarina. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Social Evolution, and is pursuing doctoral studies in Fundamental and New Rights. His current research involves the concept and definition of human rights. He attempts to reconcile universal human values with cultural diversity in practice. He and his family will be here the entire semester. He will be working in 3357 Biolchini Hall.

Spring Semester, 2010

Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues

Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues is the inaugural holder of the Brazilian Fulbright Scholarship Program’s “Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair for Visiting Scholar” at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations (2004) (with a scholarship from the Brazilian Scientific Council – CNPq), a LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1989) (PUC-SP), a M.A. in International Relations from the University for Peace, Costa Rica, and a Diploma in Conflict Resolution from the Uppsala University (1996). His research while holding the de Mello Chair at the Center for Civil and Human Rights will focus on Latin American Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP).

Dr. Rodrigues is currently a professor at the Law School of the Catholic University of Santos (UNISANTOS) where he coordinates the Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair in Human Rights in conjunction with the Brazilian UNHCR Office. He is Editor of the Human Sciences Journal Revista Leopoldianum and is a columnist at the A Tribuna de Santos Newspaper in Brazil. Dr. Rodrigues is a member of the Analysis Group on International Conflict Prevention (GAPCon) at the Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro, the São Paulo Bar (OAB/SP) and the International Law Association. As a member of the Coordinadora Regional de Estudios Económicos y Sociales (CRIES) in Buenos Aires, Gilberto is part of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP).

His recent publications in English, Portuguese and Spanish include:

  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues; Marcus Faro de Castro (2010). Brazil: Diversity and Unity. In Chattopadhyay et alli (Ed.). Dialogues on Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries. Montreal,Kingston/Ottawa: MacGill-Queens Univ.Press/Forum of Federations (Forthcoming).
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues. (2009). Latin America, a ‘certain West’? In Janus Foreign Relations Yearbook. Lisboa: Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa/O Público, p.52-55 (See the Portuguese version <http://www.janusonline.pt/2009/2009_3_3_2.html>
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues; Andrés Serbin (2009). Responsabilidade de Proteger. A Tribuna, Santos (Brazil), 19/07/2009, p.C-8.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues et alli (Ed.) (2009). Cidades em Relações Internacionais. Análises e experiências brasileiras. São Paulo: Desatino.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues. (2009). O que são relações internacionais. 2ª ed. revista e atualizada, São Paulo: Brasiliense.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues (2008). Brasil y la Comisión de Consolidación de la Paz. Politica exterior y diplomacia ciudadana. Pensamiento Propio, Buenos Aires, v.13, p.121-22. <http://www.cries.org/4.2_pp.php>
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues (2008). Relações Internacionais Federativas no Brasil. Dados, Rio de Janeiro, V.51, p.1015-1034. <http://www.scielo.br/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah>
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues (2007). Direito Internacional dos Refugiados. Uma perspectiva Brasileira. Anuário Brasileiro de Direito Internacional, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), II, v.1, p.164-78.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues; Veronica Teresi. (2007). Sonhos de liberdade, vidas traficadas. Casoteca Latino-Americana de Direito e Política Pública, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/BID, São Paulo <http://www.gvdireito.com.br/casoteca/casos.aspx?PagId=EMFCPMSN>
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues et alli. (2007). C. Brigagão (Ed.). Haiti. O Brasil e a MINUSTAH. Cadernos GAPConflitos, Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Konrad Adenauer.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues (2006). Dubya and Lula. Autonomy through Global Concert. In: Gupta, Cherian (Ed.). The Second Bush Presidency. Global Perspectives. New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation/Pearson, Longman.
  • Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues; Clóvis Brigagão (2006). Política Externa Brasileira: Da Independência aos desafios do século XXI. São Paulo: Moderna.

Spring Semester 2009

Fernando Lozano Contreras

Fernando Lozano Contreras Fernando Lozano Contreras is Licenciate with Grade and Doctor cum laude in Law (Ph. D) from the University of Alicante (Spain) where he worked as an Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2007. He earned a Masters degree in Human Rights Law from University of Alcalá (Madrid) where he currently works as an Assistant Professor of Public International Law and European Community Law under the direction of Professor Carlos Jiménez Piernas (Jean Monnet Chair holder, Director of the Masters degree in Human Rights Law at the University of Alcalá and advocate at the ICJ). Fernando Lozano is Head of Studies for this Masters program.

Fernando is the recipient of a “José Castillejo” scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for a research stay in Notre Dame.

His writing covers matters of International Responsibility, European Community Law, Stateless, Peace Keeping Operations, as well as Human Rights Law. His publications include:

  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, El Caso Soria ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 52/1 REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL 264-268 (2000).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en torno a la ilegalización de partidos politicos: el caso de Turquía, 54/2 REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL 1008-1012 (2002).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Enforcement of the notion of due diligence in the report of Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe regarding his visit to the Autonomous Basque Community, 8 SPANISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 53-69 (2005).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La noción de debida diligencia en Derecho Internacional Público (Book), Ed. Atelier, 340 p., Barcelona (2007), ISBN 8496758133.
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Los obstáculos a la libertad de circulación derivados de las conductas de grupos de particulares a uno y otro lado del Atlántico: Unión Europea-MERCOSUR, 26 REVISTA DE DERECHO COMUNITARIO EUROPEO 105-124 (2007).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Convicts in Air: Implementation by the CIA of the extraordinary rendition programme in European territory. Special reference to Spanish Practice, 12 SPANISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 53-69 (2008).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La condición juridica de los apátridas desde las perspectiva internacional y española, 360-380, in Ferrer Lloret, J. and Sanz Caballero S., Protección de personas y grupos vulnerables: Especial referencia al Derecho Internacional y Europeo, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia (2008), ISBN 9788484569954.
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Breve análisis de las Operaciones de Mantenimiento de la Paz a la luz del Derecho Internacional vigente, forthcoming in Publications of Instituto Universitario Gutiérrez Mellado (spring 2009).

Spring Semester 2008

laura olson Laura M. Olson

Laura M. Olson holds a LL.M. from New York University School of Law and a J.D. and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Iowa. From 1997-2008, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Her most recent position was as Legal Advisor to the ICRC Regional Delegation located in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she was responsible for legal support to ICRC activities in the US and Canada, including for ICRC visits to the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Previously, within the ICRC, she held the positions of Legal Advisor at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the Delegate responsible for the program to academic circles and universities at the ICRC Moscow Regional Delegation. Her writing covers matters of international humanitarian law, transitional justice, as well as the relationship between international humanitarian and human rights law during armed conflict. Her publications include:

  • Laura M. Olson, Practical Challenges of Implementing the Complementarity between International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law—Demonstrated by the Procedural Regulation of Internment in Non-international Armed Conflict, forthcoming CASE WESTERN RESERVE J. INT’L L. (2008).
  • Laura M. Olson and Toni Pfanner, Cooperation between truth commissions and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 363-373 (June 2006) (See correction of authorship, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 443 (Sept. 2006)).
  • Laura Olson, Provoking the dragon on the patio – Matters of transitional justice: penal repression vs. amnesties, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 275-294 (June 2006).
  • Laura Olson, Mechanisms complementing prosecution, 84 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 173-189 (March 2002).
  • Marco Sassòli and Laura Olson, The Judgment of the ICTY Appeals Chamber on the Merits in the Tadic Case: New Horizons for International Humanitarian and Criminal Law?, 82 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 733-769 (Sept. 2000).
  • Marco Sassòli and Laura Olson, Case Report: Prosecutor v. Tadic (Judgment), Case No. IT-94-1-A, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Appeals Chamber, July 15, 1999, 94 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 571-578 (July 2000).
  • M. SASSÒLI AND A. BOUVIER, IN COOPERATION WITH LAURA M. OLSON, ET AL., HOW DOES LAW PROTECT IN WAR? (ICRC 1999).