2019 CLS Brazil Forum - Program
Agenda - April 19, 2019
08:45 AM | Quick Breakfast
09:10 AM | Opening Remarks – CLS and Brazil: an Ever-Growing Relationship
- Sylvia Polo, Dean of Graduate Legal Studies at Columbia Law School
09:30 AM | Human Rights: Social Issues and Diversity Challenges
- Flavia Piovesan, Member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University
- Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture
- Daniel Sarmento, Lawyer and Constitutional Law Professor and Founder and Head of the Human Rights Clinics of the State University of Rio de Janeiro
- Marise Nogueira, Member of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
11:00 AM | Coffee Break
11:15 AM | Capital Markets: Recent Issues and Developments
- John Coffee Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School
- Jed Rakoff, Federal District Judge for the Southern District of New York and Adjunct professor at Columbia Law School
- Roger A. Cooper, Partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Jean Marcel Arakawa, Partner at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados
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Bruno Racy, Partner at Machado Meyer, Sendacz & Opice Advogados
12:45 PM | Lunch - distributed during the conference
01:00 PM | Corporate Social Responsibility: An Ongoing Change in Paradigms
- Luiz Ildefonso Simões Lopes, Brookfield Brazil Executive Chairman and Member of the Board of Trustees of FGV
- Otto Licks, Partner at Licks Attorneys
02:15 PM | Constitutional Democracy: Crisis and New Challenges
- Luís Roberto Barroso, Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court
- Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
- Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
- Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law
04:00 PM | Coffee Break
04:15 PM | Mergers and Acquisitions: Current Issues
- Miguel Tornovsky, Partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Corporate Law Professor at Insper
- Fernando Ziziotti, Senior Vice President, Brookfield Infrastructure Group
- Aloysio Meirelles de Miranda Filho, Partner at Ulhôa Canto Advogados
- Gabriel Silva, Partner at Linklaters
- Nicholas Walter, Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
05:45 PM | Closing Speech – Brazil: Towards an Optimistic Future
- Luís Roberto Barroso, Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court
06:30 PM | Reception at Drapkin Student Lounge (Columbia Law School)