Luís Roberto Barroso

Minister
Luís Roberto Barroso

Professor Barroso speaks to reporters after oral argument in the Supreme Federal Court, April 2011
Minister of the Supreme Federal Court
Assumed office
26 June 2013
Nominated by Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by Carlos Ayres Britto
Personal details
Born (1958-03-11) March 11, 1958
Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater Rio de Janeiro State University
University of Yale

Luís Roberto Barroso (born March 11, 1958, in the city of Vassouras) is a Brazilian Professor, Jurist and judge of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil.

Barroso owned a law firm since 1980, and served as State attorney of Rio de Janeiro since 1985, until May 2013, when he was nominated Justice of the Supreme Federal Court.

He obtained his Masters degree at Yale University and his J.D. and S.J.D. at the Rio de Janeiro State University, where he is a Constitutional Law Tenured Professor.[1]

In 2011 Barroso was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, when he wrote and published, in the United States, paper called: "Here, there and everywhere: human dignity in contemporary law and in the transnational discourse".[2]

Barroso has been invited to lecture in various universities around the world, including the prestigious New York University School of Law, in the United States, and London School of Economics and Oxford University, in England.[3][4]


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Legal offices
Preceded by
Carlos Ayres Britto
Judge of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
2013–present
Incumbent


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