Clarice Seixas Duarte
Clarice Seixas Duarte holds a PhD in philosophy and general theory of law from the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo. Her dissertation topic was “the public right to elementary education in 1988 Brazilian constitution”. She is a professor in the Graduate Program in Political and Economic Law at Mackenzie University, where she leads the research group “Law and Public Policies”. Her research focuses human rights, with particular emphasis on the implementation of social rights and the role of education policy in ending poverty and reducing social inequalities. She is the ASAP Brazil co-chair, and the ASAP Brazil Right to Education Research Group coordinator. (clasduarte@uol.com.br).
Thana Cristina de Campos
Thana Cristina de Campos is a DPhil in law candidate at the University of Oxford. Her main areas of research interest are moral and political philosophy, global justice and institutional reforms. Her research focuses on the responsibilities for the global health crisis. Her recent book, Transnational Corporations and Human Rights – Pharmaceutical Corporations as a Case Study (in Portuguese, Ed.Forum, 2012) discusses what kind of moral responsibilities pharmaceutical firms have in relation to the right to health, focusing on the debates within the United Nations (particularly within the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, where was a research intern in 2008). Thana is the ASAP Brazil co-chair, and the ASAP Brazil Right to Health Research Group coordinator. (thana_campos@yahoo.com.br)
Inês Virgínia Prado Soares
Inês Virgínia Prado Soares is Regional Federal Prosecutor in São Paulo/Brazil. She holds a MA (2000) and PhD (2007) in law from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She was a post-doctoral researcher (2009/2010) at the Center for the Study of Violence at the University of São Paulo. Her research focuses on human rights in Brazil and the possible link between cultural heritage, social rights, human rights, and access to justice. Inês Soares is the ASAP Brazil chair, and the ASAP Brazil Access to Justice Research Group coordinator. (inespradosoares@hotmail.com).
Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi
Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi is Regional Federal Prosecutor in São Paulo/Brazil. She holds a BA in law, and a MA in environmental law. She is guest professor in environmental law at the Piracicaba Methodist University (2005-2014). She is the coordinator of the courses on Human Rights and Public Policy for Federal Prosecutors (2010-2011) and on Rights of Cultural Heritage in the Union Prosecution Office’s Superior School (2013-2014). She was a researcher on DFG-project on Access and Benefit-Sharing of Genetic Resources in Brazil, Germany and Kenya – 2007/2009, in Bremen University/Germany. She represents the Federal Prosecution Office on the National Council of Management of Genetic Resources of Ministry of Environment in Brazil since 2010. She coordinates the working group of prosecutors on Water Resources of the Federal Prosecution Office (4th Chamber of Coordination and Revision) since 2009. (sask22@gmail.com).
Claudia Moraes de Souza
Claudia Moraes de Souza is a historian, holding a Ph.D. in social history from the University of São Paulo/USP, lecturer in the history of contemporary Brazil at the São Paulo School of Politics and lecturer in business at the University of São Paulo Federal. She is a faculty member and advisor to the Masters Program “Humanities, Law and other Sources of Legitimacy” at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP. She is a researcher for Diversitas–Center Studies of Diversity, Conflict and Intolerance. Diversitas operates in the areas of research State and Society with studies of social movements, social policy and cultural policy.