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Scientific Council Editorial Council

Acácia Gardenia Santos Lelis (BR)

Lawyer, specializing in Family Law, Child Law, and Domestic and Intrafamily Violence; Doctor of Law with a focus on Fundamental Rights and New Rights from Estácio de Sá University (RJ); Master of Law from PUC (PR), in the Economic and Socio-environmental Law Program; Specialist in Procedural Law from the Federal University of Sergipe; Sectional Counselor of the Brazilian Bar Association (SE); President of the Children and Adolescents Rights Commission of the OAB/SE; State President of the Brazilian Institute of Family Law (IBDFAM/SE); Professor of Law at the University Tiradentes (SE); Professor of Law at Pio Décimo College and member of the Structuring Teaching Nucleus (NDE); Evaluator of Works of Conpedi in the years 2017 and 2018; Coordinator of the Extension Project TRANJUS at UNIT. Email: acacialelis@gmail.com Orcid:

Ana Maria López Beltrán (PR)

The author holds a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Puerto Rico and a Doctorate in Philosophy, Behavioral and Social Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She completed a course in Gerontology at the Technological University College of Arecibo. She worked for the Judiciary of Puerto Rico for 29 years in various positions, in the Juvenile Court, and later as Head of Social Services. She also served as a part-time professor at the University of Puerto Rico and the Interamerican University, Arecibo and Metropolitan campuses. Additionally, she offered courses on forensic legal social work practice in the cities of Panama and Bolivia. Author of several articles and books related to the profession: La Práctica Especializada en Trabajo Social Forense, 2009 and Second Expanded Edition, 2017; Trabajo Social Forense: Práctica basada en evidencia, reto para la profesión, 2013; Diccionario Internacional de Trabajo Social en el Ámbito-Socio-Jurídico. En Amaro & Krmpotic (Ed.). Desarrollo y Trayectoria del Trabajo Social Forense en Puerto Rico: Una mirada reflexiva. (pp. 367-389). Brasil: Nova Casa Editorial. Her most recent books: “Mujeres resilientes que retan la adversidad” (2019) and the novel, “En busca de sus raíces” (Spanish and English version) (2020). Her latest book: The legacy of a generation to Puerto Rican Social Work from the intervention modality.

Antonia Maria Martin Barradas (PT)

She holds a specialization in Law, Justice, and Citizenship in the 21st Century (Specialization Diploma), with an emphasis on Law, Economics, Sociology, from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Economics, Portugal, with a grade of 18/20. She completed the Human Rights and Democratization (Master's) course with an emphasis on Human Rights at the Global Campus of Human Rights, Italy, where she defended the dissertation entitled "Quotas for men in University: breaking the stereotype in European Union law and Swedish law," with a grade of 9/10. She participated in the Postgraduate course in Human Rights (Other), with an emphasis on Human Rights, from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law, Portugal, with a grade of 16/20. She graduated in Law (Licentiate) with an emphasis on Legal-Political Sciences from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, Portugal, with a grade of 12/20. She also completed the Theory and Practice of International Human Rights (Specialization Diploma) course with an emphasis on Human Rights from The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. ORCID iD 0000-0002-0859-3344. Researcher ID:

Antônio Carlos da Ponte (BR)

He holds a Degree in Law (1986), a Master's (1998), and a Doctorate (2001) in Criminal Procedural Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In 2008, he became a Professor in Criminal Law at the same University. Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law at PUC-SP. Public Prosecutor of the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo. Member of the Superior Council of the Public Ministry of São Paulo (biennium 2022-2023). Professor of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs at PUC-SP, where he teaches Criminal Law and General Theory of Law. Coordinator of the Specialization Course in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at PUC-SP (Cogeae). Full Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Law at the Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). Ad hoc reviewer for the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC). Member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Journal of the Presidency of the Republic.

Aura González Serna - Colombia

Social Worker. Doctor of Social Work from the Federal University of Pernambuco. Professor at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín-Colombia. Researcher and member of the Research Group Territory; Focus Water, Food, and Territory – FAAT, of the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín-Colombia.

Ângela Rosa Pinho da Costa Maia (PT)

She holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho (UM) and a Habilitation in Applied Psychology. She is an associate professor, head of the Department of Applied Psychology at the UM School of Psychology, and director of the Master's in Justice Psychology. From 2016 to 2022, she was vice-president of the School and for several years she was part of the board of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. She is vice-director of the Doctoral College of the University of Minho and representative of the doctoral search at the European ARQUS Alliance of which UM is a part. She was coordinator of the Laboratory on Victims, Offenders and the Justice System from 2011 to 2022 at the UM Research Center in Psychology. She leads the Consultation Psychotherapy Group in Trauma and Stress. She has collaborated and is the coordinator of several research projects in the areas of trauma, justice, and violence, being the author or co-author of many publications on these topics. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Military Stress Resources Center of the Ministry of Defense and has coordinated several projects funded by the Regional Health Administration of the North, the Ministry of Internal Administration, the Ministry of Justice and, since 2016, the Ministry of Defense. Recently, she proposed two courses at the University of Minho to promote skills in understanding, evaluating, and intervening with victims for professionals who work with these vulnerable groups. The first one has already been completed with great success. ORCID: 0000-0003-1343-9699

Claudia Krmpotic (AR)

Doctor of Social Work (PUC-SP, Brazil), with an Interdisciplinary Postgraduate degree in Human Sciences (UFSC, Brazil), Master in Political Science (UNSAM, Argentina) and Bachelor in Social Work (UBA, Argentina). Independent researcher at the Argentine Center for American Ethnology (CONICET) and professor of undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the National Universities of Buenos Aires, Comahue, Jujuy and La Matanza, where she coordinates the Master's in Social Sciences.

Edna Hogemann (BR)

Lawyer since 1999. Post-Doctorate in Law from Estácio de Sá University/RJ, Doctorate in Law from Gama Filho University - UGF (2006), Master's in Law from Gama Filho University - UGF (2002), Lato Sensu Postgraduate in Bioethics from UNESCO's Red Bioética (2010), Lato Sensu Postgraduate in History of Brazilian Law from Estácio de Sá University - UNESA (2007), Graduated in Journalism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ (1977) and Bachelor in Law from Grande Rio University (1999). Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Law and Dean at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro- UniRio. Researcher at GGINNS - Global Comparative Law: Governance, Innovation, and Sustainability (Bioethics, Biolaw, Biotechnology) in cross-cutting themes such as biotechnology, sustainability, food security, and family farming, coordinator of the Human Rights and Social Transformation Group (CNPq) and the EthikAI- AIEthics Institute. With experience in public policies in Human Rights, in the development of pedagogical and extension projects, mostly interinstitutional, from conception to implementation, including the preparation of teaching plans, lesson plans, evaluation items, team management of teachers, field research, and organization of products resulting from extension projects. Author of scientific books, textbooks, collections of articles, content for online classes, and evaluation items for both in-person and distance education courses. She has solid experience in participatory methodologies and group management; experience in academic research in various methodological approaches; experience in extension projects, with articulation/interaction with the community; experience in developing social projects; academic experience with the Project's theme; experience in supervising and/or guiding undergraduate and postgraduate students. Author of textbooks, content for online classes, and evaluation items for both in-person and distance education courses, in addition to experience in recording video classes, coordination, and production of didactic materials for distance education courses for undergraduate and postgraduate studies since 2006. Elda Ivonne Allen (AR).

Francirosy Campos Barbosa (BR)

Anthropologist, Associate Professor and Researcher in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto campus (FFCLRP). She holds a CNPq level 2 Research Productivity fellowship. Post-Doc from the University of Oxford in Islamic Theology under the supervision of Prof. Tariq Ramadan. She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (1994), a Master's in Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (2001), and a Doctorate in Anthropology - Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences - USP (2007). PRODOC IA/UNICAMP (2008-2010). She is the coordinator of GRACIAS - Group of Anthropology in Islamic and Arab Contexts; Active member of ABA Brazilian Anthropology Association. Researcher at Azimute? Islamic Context Studies Center (CRIA/ISCTE), Researcher at GRAVI and NAPEDRA (USP). Editor of the book: Olhares femininos sobre o Islã: etnografias, metodologias e imagens (Hucitec, 2010) and co-editor of the collection: Performance - Arte e Antropologia (Hucitec, 2010), author of the book "Performances Islâmicas em São Paulo: entre arabescos, luas e tâmaras" (Edições Terceira Via, 2017). Director of the videos: Allahu Akbar, Sacrifício, Vozes do Islã, and Allah, Oxalá na trilha Malê (2015). She has experience in the field of Anthropology, with an emphasis on Anthropological Theory, mainly working on the following topics: Islam, Muslim women, performance anthropology, visual anthropology, methodology.

 

 

Francisco Pereira Costa (BR)

He holds a degree in Law from the Federal University of Acre (1996), a degree in History from the Federal University of Acre (1989), a Master's in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2002), and a Doctorate in Social History from the University of São Paulo-USP (2014). Professor of the Law Course at the Federal University of Acre since 2003. He has experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Law, working mainly in the following broad areas of Law and History: Social History, Law, History of Law, Labor Law, and Labor Process, History of Labor Law, Social Movements. His research focuses on the History of Law, with an emphasis on the Old Republic and the Vargas era. Currently, since August 2022, he is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in Social History at the Federal University of Amazonas/UFAM. Supervisor Prof. Dr. Luis Balkar.

Gabriela Shizue Soares de Araújo (BR)

Graduated in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2002), with a specialization in Tax Law (2005), a Master's (2013), and a Doctorate (2021) in Constitutional Law from the same institution. She also holds a specialization in Constitutional Justice and Protection of Fundamental Rights from the University of Pisa - Italy (2018). She was promoted to Federal Judge of the Federal Regional Court of the Third Region by the Quinto Constitucional, filling the vacancy for advocacy, on August 30, 2024. Previously, as a lawyer, she worked for 22 years in the areas of Constitutional Law, Electoral Law, Human Rights, and Administrative Law, and had strong classist activity. She was director of the Lawyers Union of the State of São Paulo and was a member of the Special Committee on Electoral Law of the Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar Association. In the São Paulo section of the Brazilian Bar Association, she was a member of the Electoral Law Committee, the Electoral Observatory, Coordinator of the Memory Center of the Human Rights Committee, and presenter of the program “Diversas: O Direito por Elas,” broadcast on the YouTube Channel of the Higher School of Advocacy. She is a member of IASP – São Paulo Lawyers Institute and the American Association of Jurists (AAJ) – Brazil Branch, a non-governmental organization with permanent representation at the UN. She is also associated with CAOESTE - American Conference of Subnational Electoral Organizations for Electoral Transparency and ABRADEP - Brazilian Academy of Electoral and Political Law, as well as the founder of the Prerogatives Group. Currently, in the academic field, she teaches undergraduate law courses at the Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, linked to the Department of Public Law. At PUC-SP, she also holds the positions of Assistant Coordinator of the Faculty of Law Journal and vice-leader of the Electoral Law Study Group. Previously, she was a professor of undergraduate law at the Paulista School of Law – EPD and postgraduate at UNIFIEO. She has numerous texts and articles published in various newspapers, magazines, and specialized journals. She is also the author of the book “Mulheres na Política Brasileira: Desafios Rumo à Democracia Paritária Participativa” by Arraes Editores, a book based on her doctoral thesis.

 

 

Hermínia Júlia de Castro Fernandes Gonçalves (PT)

Hermínia Júlia de Castro Fernandes Gonçalves, Ciência ID A517-7859-AF6F, ORCID iD 0000-0002-1051-9311; Professor at the Department of Economics, Sociology and Management and researcher at the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development at UTAD. Doctor in Sociology (2011). Doctor in Social Work (2019). DEA in Sociology (2006). Master's in Rural Development (2005). Degree in Social Work (1991). She works in the areas of Territorial Development and Social Inclusion, with an emphasis on: (1) Political mutations, municipal decentralization, multi-institutional structures, functionalities, and governance; (2) Social issues, poverty, aging and inequalities, responses and innovations; (3) Contemporary Social Work, community, environmental, theories, and methodological reconfigurations. She investigates and coordinates various Research Projects: 0189_VIVEMAIS_2 (del partenariado para la ejecución del proyecto de cooperación transfronteriza denominado _E “Comunidad transfronteriza y transdisciplinar para el diseño, adopción y uso de tecnologías asistivas innovadoras”); LEARNING VILLAGE: Citizenship, Entrepreneurship, Heritage & Environmental Education for Rural Sustainable Development; The INCLUSION OF RISK GROUPS, a transnational perspective; SYMBIOSIS, Demographic crisis, Habitable Territories, and Inclusion; ASAS, Active and Sustainable Villages; Recovery of Coastal Forests - Public Participation and Awareness; National Food Aid Mapping Project; Collective Proximity Services Project; Service Delivery Project within the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program of Baixo Sabor. Individually or in co-authorship, she has published more than 30 articles in specialized journals; 6 scopus articles (Q1, Q2, and Q3, respectively); 10 articles in the Main Collection of the Web of Science; 15 articles with other indexing; 5 books; 11 book chapters, more than 30 proceedings. She has supervised several postgraduate works (19 master's and 2 doctoral) and participated in more than 300 juries of national and international exams, as well as in competitions for senior social action technicians of the public service. She has participated in 8 Doctoral examination juries, more than 60 Master's juries and 250 undergraduate juries. She has assumed various management roles at UTAD, especially as Course Director in the 1st and 2nd cycles in Social Work, since 2013, previously Deputy Director (2006-2013), Member of the Pedagogical Council (2013 and 2021) and Vice-President (2019 and 2021); Member of the Scientific Council since 2021. In the context of extension functions or previous roles, the highlights are: Member of Monitoring and Evaluation Committees of Social Work area courses, A3ES (2021-present). Member of the National Citizenship & Territory Forum, to facilitate the construction of actions that promote territorial development processes (2015-present); Member of REDETEG - Ibero-American Network of Studies on Territorial Development and Governance (2012-present). Member of the District Citizenship Forum: For the Eradication of Poverty (2022-present); Coordinator of the European Anti-Poverty Network, Vila Real District Center, (2005-2014); Coordinator of the Child and Youth Protection Commission of Vila Real (2002-2004); Social Judge for Minors in the Vila Real District (2003-2016); Director of Social Action Services at the Social Security District Center of Vila Real (2003); Technician and Coordinator of the Local Commission for Social Insertion Income at the Social Security District Center of Vila Real (1996-2004). Technician and Coordinator of the Leader program, Link between Rural Development Actions (1991-1995). She is a Reviewer for several Research Journals.

Isabel Maria Sampaio Oliveira Lima (BR)

Retired Judge of the State of Bahia. Doctorate in Public Health from the Institute of Collective Health (ISC) of UFBA (2002). With training in the legal and health fields, Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (UFJF) and later a degree in Law (UCSAL). Specialized in Public Health at the National School of Public Health of FIOCRUZ (1978 and 1979), and in her interdisciplinary professional experience integrated health and law dimensions on topics related to human rights. Her career includes work and research in Human Rights (HR), Right to Health, Child Law, Family, Restorative Justice and HR Education. She developed the dialogue between human intersexuality and HR since 2003. She addressed various topics from HR - Environmental Law, Mental Suffering, Child and Adolescent Law. Coordinated the Human Rights, Right to Health and Family Group (UCSal) - 2002-2020. Consultant in Child Law in East Timor (2007-2009). Fulbright Scholar (USA) with post-doctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Law School, in the area of Child Law - HR (2012). Partner Faculty of ISC-UFBA since 2004. Visiting Professor at UFSB (2013-2014). Member of the Scientific Committee for Restorative Justice of the AMB (2014-2016). Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Family in Contemporary Society (UCSAL) (2005-2020). Post-doctoral internship at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding - Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice (USA) - 2017. Leader of the Restorative Justice and Practices Center (UCSal) (2016-2020) Instructor and Trainer of Peace Circle Facilitators. Tutor at ENFAM. Founding Partner of Moinho de Paz. Pedagogical Responsible for Moinho de Paz

Iván de Jésus-Rosa (PR)

Forensic Social Worker at Carlos Albizu University. Doctor in Social Work. He has numerous published articles in the field.

Jaime Meira Nascimento (BR)

He holds a degree in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (1995), a degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (2000), a Master's in Legal History (DEA en Histoire du Droit) from Université Paris II (2003), and a Doctorate in Civil Law from the University of São Paulo (2006). He has legal experience as a Lecturer, Member of the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo, coordinator of the 8th Regional Nucleus of the Center for Studies and Functional Improvement of the Higher School of the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo-CEAF/ESMP (Vale do Paraíba) and advisor to CAO Civil and Collective Tutelage (Decentralized - Elderly), working mainly in the following areas: Environmental Law, Public Health, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Legal History and Roman Law. Member of the Special Action Group for Environmental Defense (GAEMA - Vale do Paraíba Nucleus - from 2012 to 2017).

José Ricardo de Carvalho Mesquita Ayres (BR)

Physician, public health specialist, Full Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP). He works in the field of Public Health, with an emphasis on Primary Health Care and Health Humanities, dealing with topics such as: adolescent and youth health, vulnerability, HIV/AIDS, health care, comprehensiveness, prevention and health promotion, historical-epistemological development of epidemiology, and philosophical foundations of health practices. He conducts extension activities with various health institutions, particularly the Samuel B. Pessoa School Health Center of FMUSP. He has developed research and teaching activities in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health, USA (Enhancing Care Initiative - 1997-2003) and with Princeton University, USA (Global Health and the Social Studies of Medicine and Health - 2010-2014), where he remained as a Visiting Research Scholar in 2014. He was a MacArthur Foundation fellow (1995-1997). He collaborates with the Graduate Program at the Collective Health Institute of the National University of Lanús, Argentina, and the Graduate Program in Public Health at the National University of Antioquia, Colombia. He is a member of DIPEx Brasil: Saúde e Cuidado: compartilhando histórias - and an Affiliated Scholar at the Brazil Lab, Princeton University. At USP, he has held the positions of Deputy Provost for University Extension (2010-2014) and Coordinator of the Rights Center at the Provost's Office for Culture and University Extension (2012-2014) and is a member of the Adolescent Health Committee of the São Paulo State Health Department. In addition to more than a hundred publications in field journals and various book chapters, he is the author of the books "Epidemiologia e Emancipação", "Sobre o risco: para compreender a epidemiologia" (also published in Argentina as "Acerca del riesgo: para comprender la epidemiología"), "Cuidado: trabalho e interação nas práticas de saúde" and, in co-authorship, "Prevención. Promoción y cuidado: enfoques de vulnerabilidad y derechos humanos", also published in Argentina. Currently, he serves as Technical Advisor to the Office of the Vice Provost of USP and President of the Inclusion and Belonging Commission of the USP Medical School.

Josep. M. Tamarit Sumalla (ES)

Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Lleida since 1999 and at the Open University of Catalonia since 2010, where he is the Director of the Criminology Program. His research activity has focused on the fields of victimology, criminal sanctions, restorative justice, and transitional justice. In addition to numerous articles and contributions in collective works, among his monographs and works published in recent years are "La victimización sexual de menores y la respuesta del sistema de justicia penal" (BdF-Edisofer 2017), "El estatuto de las víctimas del delito" (Tirant lo Blanch 2015), "Historical memory and Criminal Justice in Spain" (Intersentia 2013), "La justicia restaurativa: desarrollo y aplicaciones" (Comares 2012), "Victimología teórica y aplicada" (Huygens 2013, co-authored with Noemí Pereda), "Las sanciones penales en Europa" (Aranzadi 2009), and "La tragedia y la justicia penal" (Tirant lo Blanch 2009). He has been the coordinator of the consolidated research group "Criminal Justice System" since 2005. Additionally, he is the president of the Catalan Society of Victimology and a member of the Catalan Society of Sociology.

 

Luciana Cordeiro de Souza Fernandes (BR)

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Teaching and History of Earth Sciences (PEHCT) at the Institute of Geosciences - IG/UNICAMP. In 2020 she received - for Merit - the Teaching Recognition Award for Dedication to Undergraduate Teaching by FCA/UNICAMP. She holds a Doctorate (2005) and a Master's (2001) in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP), in the area of Diffuse Rights- Environmental Law; Specialization in Civil Procedural Law (PUCCAMP - 1991) and in Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law (USF - 1999). Bachelor's degree in Law from São Francisco University (1988). She conducts research on the following topics: water resources, groundwater, soil management, geoparks, sustainability, Law and environmental education. Leader of the Research Group CNPQ/UNICAMP 'AQUAGEO AMBIENTE LEGAL. Collaborating Researcher with the Global Water Partnership, GWP/Sweden as a representative of UNICAMP. State Coordinator for São Paulo of APRODAB. Lawyer, Writer, Reviewer, and Consultant in Environmental Law. Founding Partner and State Coordinator for São Paulo of the Brazilian Association of Environmental Law Professors - APRODAB. She was an Effective Counselor of the State Commission for Infrastructure, Logistics, and Sustainable Development of the OAB - São Paulo Section (2017-2019). She participated in the Institutional Strengthening Program of the Guarani Aquifer System Project in Uruguay (2008). She was Director of Housing in Jundiaí-SP (2007-2008) and Advisor to the Legal Directorate of CDHU-SP (2011-2013). She was Coordinator of the postgraduate courses in Environmental Law and Real Estate Law at Padre Anchieta University Center- Jundiaí/SP. ORCID

 

Madalena Sofia Oliveira (PT)

Madalena Sofia Oliveira holds a PhD in Psychology/Social Sciences, with the thesis Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: the family context, intimate relationships and young people's beliefs about violence. Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Social Service of Porto and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University Institute of Health Sciences-CESPU and the University of Maia. Member of the Scientific Council and co-coordinator of the socio-legal module on Forensic Expertise at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. Integrated researcher at the Center for Research in Justice and Governance -JusGov-UM, groups: Human Rights and JusCrime. Consultant, external evaluator and supervisor (EAV and CA and CAR) in public and private entities in the areas of victimology. Member of several national and international scientific organizations and associations, she is part of the board of the Portuguese Association of Forensic Sciences (APCF) and co-coordinates Forensic Psychology and Forensic Social Work. Her professional career includes experience in public and private organizations, in intervention with victims of crimes; with children and young people at risk/in danger, in the promotion and protection system, psychosocial intervention in crisis contexts and the rehabilitation and psychosocial reintegration of victims whose functionality has been seriously affected. Forensic Expert at Honnus Medical Legal and Forensic Science. Since 2003, she has dedicated herself to the study of violence in intimate relationships, family violence, intergenerational transmission of violence, child abuse and neglect, multiproblematic and multiviolent families, and residential care for children and young people, resulting in various presentations at national and international congresses and publications, including several books on abuse, violence, and crime.

 

Maria Celeste Cordeiro Leite dos Santos (BR)

She holds a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2006), a degree in Law from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (1968), a Master's in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1981), a Master's in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1999), a Doctorate in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1984), a Post-Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, and a Doctorate in Religious Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2021). Currently, she is a volunteer at the Ethics Committee for Research Project Analysis at the Hospital das Clínicas, CAPPESQ, a member of the bioethics and human rights committee at the FIEO University Center, an ad hoc reviewer for the Metropolitan University of Santos, a doctoral professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, an effective member of the OAB-SP, Chief Editor of the Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a volunteer member of the CONEP of the Hospital das Clínicas at the Faculty of Medicine of USP, a volunteer at CTBIO Faculty of Medicine of USP, a retired professor at the state school professor Alberto Levy, a contracted professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a doctoral professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a former scholarship holder at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a doctoral professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a Peb II professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She has experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Philosophy of Law, working on the topics: Philosophy of Law, Biolaw/Bioethics, ethics, bioethics and biolaw, human dignity and biolaw, Law, Power and Justice, Criminal Law and AI, Restorative Justice (facilitator - USA). Member of the Permanent Commission for Women's Law Studies of the Institute of Lawyers of São Paulo- IASP since March 14, 2022, Member of the IASP Law and Literature Commission: 2024, member of AASP. She represented C20 Brazil / 2024 at the GW7, Artificial Intelligence, Midterms Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Ambassador of the Humanitas Project at the OAB, Guarulhos, Vice President of the PROVITIMA Institute. Published books and articles. Laurea OAB, São Paulo Section, and Guarulhos Subsection participation in the International Forum C20-G20- G07 - Brazil 2024.

Maria de Fátima Gomes de Lucena (BR)

Sociologist and Social Worker. She holds a degree in Social Work from the University of Vale do Paraíba-São José dos Campos, São Paulo (1973), a Master's in Sociology from the Federal University of Pernambuco-Recife (1982), a Doctorate in Sociological Sciences from the University of Havana - Cuba (1996), a Doctorate in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas - São Paulo (2002), and a Post-Doctorate in Social Sciences from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS/Paris-France (2006). She taught at the Federal University of Paraíba from 1977 to 1997, when she retired. She returned - through a public competition - to teaching at the Federal University of Pernambuco since January 1998. Currently, she is a retired Full Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, working on the Dom Helder Câmara Human Rights Commission at UFPE. She has experience in the field of Sociology, with an emphasis on Health Sociology, working mainly on the following topics: social struggles; work and education; health, gender, generation, and race/ethnicity; human trafficking and violence. She is a member of the State Committee for Combating Human Trafficking in Pernambuco; a member of the Movement Against Human Trafficking (MCTP); a member and Vice-President of the Dom Helder Câmara Human Rights Commission at the Federal University of Pernambuco and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Pernambuco (2014-2017); a member of GT-24 (CNRS-site Pouchet - Paris) of the French Association of Sociology (AFS), since 2006 to the present. Coordinator of the Lato Sensu Graduate Course (Specialization) in Human Rights of the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights at UFPE (2014-2015) and Vice-Leader of the Research and Study Group on Ethics (GEPE)/UFPE. Coordinator of the Course Educating for Human Rights at UFPE (2014-2015). Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Bolivarian University (UPB), Medellín - Colombia, since 2015. Author, organizer, and preface writer of several books on work, health, gender, and violence (examples: "Health, Gender and Violence: a comparative study Brazil/France on the health of black women"; "Women of the Land: a study on health and gender in the rural area of Pernambuco"; "Human Rights: studies on human trafficking - a methodological guide"; "Know, Prevent and Care: studies on human trafficking"; "International Dictionary of Social Work in the Socio-legal Field"; "From Colonial Brazil to the Present Day: a history of stolen childhoods"; "Psychology and Social Work: fundamentals for working in the Judiciary"; "Structural Racism, Institutional and Social Work", among others). Member of the National Association of Human Rights, Research and Graduate Studies. E-mail: puscmf@gmail.com

 

Maria Luiza Bullentini Facury (BR)

Psychologist, Lawyer, Biologist, and Nutrition and Dietetics Technician. She works in the area of multidisciplinary interface. Direct Doctorate in Sciences from the Graduate Program in Nutrition: Unifesp-Epm (2008), where she addressed psychology, consumer law, and nutrition in the study. Effective member of the Special Committee on Criminology and Victimology of OAB_SP. Professor of postgraduate courses at Ibeco College. She coordinated the Psychology Course at the Universidade Brasil Campus Mooca and Itaquera. She coordinated the Legal Practices Center, Experimental Office, Mediation and Arbitration of the Law Course at the Faculty of São Paulo- Historic Center and was a lecturer at the institution where she taught the subjects of Legal Psychology, Labor Law, and Consumer Law in the Law course curriculum. Specialist in Psychology applied to Nutrition - Unifesp- EPM (2000), Specialist in Labor Law and Labor Process from the Faculty of Law Damásio de Jesus (2007). Specialist in Gastronomy and Restaurant Management - Método de São Paulo College - Famesp (2015) - Lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Gastronomy, Hospitality and Tourism of São Paulo - HOTEC. Volunteer Director in the area of Psychology for the Higia Healthy Mind Project - Avarc, and one of the authors in the field of psychology of the Victims' Statute bill. Psychologist at Davita Perdizes Clinic (adherence to chronic kidney disease treatment). Lecturer in postgraduate courses at Ibeco College. Guest lecturer for the Graduate Program in Nutrition at UNIFESP, master's and doctorate courses where she taught the subject: Psychology applied to Nutritional Disorders.

 

Mena Minafra (IT)

Graduated in Jurisprudence (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) with a grade of 107/110, holds a Laurea Magistrale in International Relations (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) with a grade of 110/110 and honors, Doctorate in Penal System and Process (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and a Postgraduate Specialization in Constitutional Guarantees and Fundamental Rights in Criminal Law and Procedure (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo campus). She is qualified to practice as a lawyer and has been qualified since 2016 to practice before the Superior Courts. She is a specialist in Criminal Law and Procedure (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Naples Federico II) with a grade of 50/50 and honors, and in Juvenile Criminal and Procedural Law (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa). Additionally, she holds a Management in Soil Evaluation and Recovery Techniques (Department of Environmental Sciences, University Federico II) and a Diploma of Higher Education and Improvement in Criminal Procedure (Formed Institute of Caserta). She obtained a Diploma in Justice and Tourism - Spain, a safe country for all (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca campus) and specialization in Criminal Procedure before the Justice of the Peace and in Penal Mediation (Order of Lawyers of Santa Maria Capua Vetere in collaboration with the chair of Criminal Procedure (Prof. Mariano Menna), Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli). She also holds specialization in Fair Trial and Defense Rights (Order of Lawyers of Santa Maria Capua Vetere in collaboration with the chair of Criminal Procedure (Prof. Mariano Menna), Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli). She participates as a member of the Interuniversity Research Center in Bioethics (C.I.R.B.), Naples, is a consultant to the III Special Commission Terra dei Fuochi, Bonifications, Ecomafias of the Campania Region, representative of the Guarantor of individuals subject to personal freedom restrictive measures of the Campania Region, responsible for the Prison Detention Observatory of the Campania Region and member of the international research group of the Permanent Observatory of European and International Civil and Penal Justice (O.J.O.) (International Research Institute of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo campus, Director Prof. Nicolás González-Cuéllar Serrano). She participates in the international research and development group "Research and experimentation in the fight against money laundering: the fourth directive" and the group "Crisis of Penal Law in the Rule of Law: events and trends" (Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo campus, reference Prof. Agata Sanz Hermida). She has served as a contracted lecturer in Penitentiary Law (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and conducts international training and research activities at the Permanent Observatory of European and International Civil and Penal Justice (O.J.O.) and the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha. She coordinated the project "The fight against corruption and financial crime in Spain and Italy" (Permanent Observatory of European and International Civil and Penal Justice (O.J.O.), International Research Institute of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo campus, Director Prof. Nicolás González-Cuéllar Serrano). She taught the "Criminal Law" module in the Training Course for Inspectors of the Penitentiary Police Corps (Department of Penitentiary Administration - Ministry of Justice, Aversa) and the module "Role of the Victim and Restorative Justice in the Procedure before the Justice of the Peace" in the Advanced Course in Family and Penal Mediation (Department of Jurisprudence, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli).

Maria Acale (ES)

Doctor of Law from the University of Cádiz and Full Professor of Criminal Law. Director of the Department of Public International, Criminal, and Procedural Law at the University of Cádiz. Professor and Doctor of Law at the University of Cádiz since 1997 and Full Professor of Criminal Law since 2010. In the teaching field, she has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses, including master's and doctoral programs, at the University of Cádiz. A notable aspect of her university career is her participation in the Master's in Gender, Identities, and Citizenship of the Universities of Cádiz and Huelva since its inception over 20 years ago, where she coordinates the Equality Policies Module and teaches the course "Gender, Violence, and Criminal Law". In the realm of university management, she has held various positions such as Faculty Secretary, Department Director, University Ombudsperson, and Rector's Delegate for implementing equality and inclusion policies. Currently, she is the Director of the Department of Public International, Criminal, and Procedural Law. Her main research areas include the study of general issues such as offenses of mere activity, penalties and security measures, and specific offenses such as environmental crimes, drug trafficking, and corruption. She is particularly recognized for her studies on domestic and gender violence, a research line she has pursued more intensively, as reflected in her three monographs on the subject. The most recent one, published in 2019 by Editorial Reus, is titled “Violencia sexual de género contra las mujeres adultas”. From the perspective of research management, she has been the principal investigator of several projects, notably the recently completed one on “Análisis jurídico penal y criminológico del acoso laboral generado en la Universidad: los programas de compliance como mecanismo preventivo de la Junta de Andalucía (Ayudas a proyectos I+D+I en el marco del programa operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020)”. Internationally, she is the Director of the Master's in Gender and Women's Rights in Chile (FUCID-UCA) and an international consultant for the United States through the Embassy of Honduras. Additionally, she has given lectures in countries such as Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico. She has conducted research internships in Germany at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law in Freiburg, in Italy at the Universities of Modena and Bocconi in Milan, as well as in the United Kingdom at the University of Leicester.

 

Nicholas Dungey (US)

Professor of Political Science. B.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1998, University of California, Santa Barbara (2002), author of “Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-Creation”. Founder of Reluvotion, Professor of Political Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and Anglo-American University, Prague.

 

Oswaldo Pereira de Lima Junior (BR)

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Doctor of Law from Estácio de Sá University - UNESA, Master in Bioethics, Ethics, and Citizenship from the Salesian University Center of São Paulo - UNISAL (2009), Postgraduate in Civil Procedural Law from the Salesian University Center of São Paulo - UNISAL (2005), Bachelor of Law from the University of Taubaté - UNITAU (1999). Adjunct Professor IV of the Law Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, former professor at the University of Taubaté - UNITAU (SP) and Faculty Paraíso do Ceará. He has experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Law and Public Policy, Anthropology, Philosophy of Law, and Ethics. Coordinator of the Research Project "Between the Biological and the Human: Personalization and Parental Conflicts in the Face of Gestation and the Moral Status of the Unborn" and the Extension Project (En)Cine Law, Coordinator of the Research Group "Fundamental Rights and Social Development" at UFRN and researcher of the Research Group "Justice, Law and Technology - JUDITE" at UEPB.

 

Raúl Ruiz Callado (ES)

Doctor of Sociology from the University of Alicante (2005), with an extraordinary doctorate award and a bachelor's degree award (1995-1999). Currently, he serves as a professor in the Department of Sociology I, at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Alicante; with four three-year teaching terms and one six-year research term. At the same time, he is an associate researcher at the Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and a full member of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Spain.

 

Sales Augusto dos Santos (BR)

He holds a degree (1990), a Master's (1997), and a Doctorate (2007) in Sociology from the University of Brasília (UnB). Post-doctorate at the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies (DAADS) at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) (2019-2020) and at the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University (2012-2013). He has experience in research in the field of Sociology, with an emphasis on the Sociology of Racial Relations and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations. He studies and researches the following topics: black social movements, racial discrimination, racism, diversity and racial inequalities, affirmative action policies (and/or racial quotas) in higher education, and policies for promoting racial equality. He was one of the Responsible Coordinators for the "Working Group - Publications" of the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN) from August 2008 to July 2010, as well as one of the Coordinators of the "Series Violence in Headlines" from 1998 to 2002, of the National Human Rights Movement (MNDH). He received the Martin Diskin Dissertation Award for the best doctoral thesis from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in 2009. He is a member of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS), the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). He was also a member of the Anti-Harassment Task Force from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) from May 2018 to July 2020.

 

Samia Saad Gallotti Bonavides (BR)

She holds a degree in Law from the State Faculty of Law of the Northern Pioneer (1978), a Master's (2003), and a Doctorate (2020) in Legal Science from the State University of Paraná. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Undergraduate Law course, as well as in the Graduate Program in Legal Science at this institution. She has experience in the legal field, both in theory and practice, with an emphasis on public law, consensual law, self-compositional practices, and restorative justice, feminism, gender issues, and their intersections. She mainly works in the consensual area of law, planning public institutions, the Public Ministry, and public administration. She is a Prosecutor of Justice, Coordinator of the Practice and Incentive to Self-Composition Center of MPPR, and Deputy Attorney General for Institutional Planning Affairs of MPPR.

 

Sammy Barbosa Lopes (BR)

He holds a degree in Law from the Federal University of Acre (1994), a Master's in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2008), and a Doctorate in Legal-Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2023 - still awaiting validation in Brazil). He is a member of the Public Ministry of the State of Acre, holding the position of head of the 6th Criminal Justice Prosecutor's Office.

 

Sara Salum (CL)

Social worker, criminologist, Doctor in American Studies USACH, Philosophical Master in International Social Work from Göteborg University. Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. Founding lecturer of the socio-legal area of the School of Social Work at the University of Valparaíso (Chile). Director of the Research Center for Sexual Crimes and Prison Population at the University of Valparaíso - Chile.

 

Sarita Amaro (BR)

Sarita Amaro is a social worker, master, and doctor in Social Work (Brazil) and post-doctorate in Social Work in Education (Portugal). She has over 20 years of professional experience, most of which has been spent as a social worker in the educational field and as a lecturer-researcher in the academic environment. Currently, with more than thirty published books, Sarita is recognized as a reference in academic production in Social Work, with an emphasis on the social issues of childhood and adolescence, ethnic-racial issues, professional instrumentality, and work in the education field.

 

Véronique Durand (FR)

She holds a Master's degree in Language, Literature, and Foreign Civilizations from Université de Rennes II (1985), a Master's degree in Ethnology from Université Paris 7 (1987). D.E.A from the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur Amérique Latine and a Doctorate in the Study of Latin American Societies from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She conducted research and work accompanying women victims of violations in various countries around the world.