• FGV CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ON EU-LATIN AMERICA GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Summary

The FGV Centre of Excellence on EU-LA GLOBAL (2023- 2026) focuses on the contribution of the EU for fostering a comparative study on Global Governance and related subjects, taking into account the context and specific demands from the Latin America. It envisages joint transnational activities and structural links with academic institutions in Brazil and worldwide in order to share knowledge, develop partnership and joint activities on issues of global governance and beyond. The project represents an opportunity to keep advancing in the EU studies, as an extension of FGV’s Jean Monnet Module (2010-2013), Chair Actions (2015-2018) and FGV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-South America Global Governance (2019-2023).

The FGV Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges will focus on the EU’s contribution to Global Governance related challenges, in particular: (i) the EU’s role as a promoter of democratic values and as a global regulator; and (ii) the EU’s role in regional and international dispute settlement systems in a globalized world. 

It envisages joint transnational activities with academics and practitioners in Latin America, Canada and Europe to share knowledge, develop partnership and joint activities on EU studies. The project responds to an identified need to expand awareness of the Global Governance debate with focus on the EU’s role in Global South. 

The Centre’s key activities consist in new and existing teaching activities; high-level collaborative research projects with national and international partners; seminars; training and capacity-building courses; and publications. 

As a result, the projects’ main outputs comprise scientific deliverables, such as reports, academic articles; blog articles; the production of large databases for empirical research; international mobility of personnel, discussion of research findings; and dissemination deliverables via publications in websites, social media and measurement of impact. 

The Centre will foster dialogue between the academic world and society. Beneficiaries of the Centre’s activities include: high school students, undergraduate and postgraduate students, professors, researchers, public administrators, civil society actors, the media and the general public interested in the topic. 

Featuring an internationally distinguished teaching staff, guest professors and experts from different professional backgrounds and fields of knowledge, a contemporary work plan, an innovative educational methodology and carefully selected target groups, the Centre will represent an unparalleled initiative in Latin America aiming to ensure greater visibility to EU studies both at the national and the international levels.

The Centre’s activities, staff and guests are structured around three main core dimensions in order to contribute to the global governance challenges, in particular: (1) the EU’s role in the Promotion of democratic values in Latin America; (2) the EU’s role in Global Regulation; and (3) the EU’s role in International Dispute Settlement.

  1. EU’s role in the Promotion of democratic values in Latin America covers different facets of the EU promotion of its values abroad and beyond typical academia environments. It intends to function as a vector of public diplomacy towards third countries, promoting EU values and enhancing the visibility of what the European Union stands for and what it intends to achieve. 
  2. EU’s role in Global Regulation provides a systematic assessment of the European Union’s role as a Global Regulator, including EU’s emergence as a normative actor, the normative authority of new subjects and non-State actors in shaping international organizations’ law and their relevance to global governance; multilevel and informal decision-making mechanisms in the European and international spheres and their impact on global regulation. It goes beyond a comprehensive examination of the EU institutions by offering an analysis of the EU’s regulatory power in a broader context and its contributions to the development of global standards.
  3. EU’s role in International Dispute Settlement provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the EU’s role in International Dispute Settlement (IDS). It contemplates situations in which the EU is a full participant of the system and situations in which the EU has attempted to participate in international proceedings. It also addresses European and International Dispute Settlement systems more generally.

Team

The network designed by the Centre highly contributes to the excellence of the project and fosters an interdisciplinary and international environment. In addition to key staff members, which are all professors from FGV, the project team also includes Brazilian and International invited professors, who actively participate in open lectures and/or conferences, according to their area of expertise.

Coordinator

List of key staff professors from Getulio Vargas Foundation

Invited Professors

The Rio Course on Regional and International Dispute Settlement shares with the EU-Latin American School on Global Challenges over 30 professors coming from high-level universities and think tanks around the world.

  1. Aline Beltrame - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
  2. Ana Paula Tostes - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
  3. Ana T. Caetano - Veirano Advogados
  4. Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
  5. Camila Villard Duran - ESSCA School of Management
  6. Carina Costa Oliveira - Universidade de Brasília
  7. Carmen Tibúrcio - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) | BFBM Advogados 
  8. Conor Foley - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
  9. Daniel Damásio Borges - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
  10. Ely Caetano Xavier Junior - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
  11. Fabiane Verçosa - FGV Direito Rio
  12. Fabio Morosini - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
  13. Felipe Albuquerque - Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça Advogados (BFBM Advogados)
  14. Fernanda Castelo Branco Araújo - Instituto Verdeluz
  15. Gustavo Becker - International Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law
  16. Gustavo Fossati - FGV Direito Rio
  17. Henrique Ennes - FGV Direito Rio
  18. Juliana Loss de Andrade - FGV Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem
  19. Kai Enno Lehmann - Universidade de São Paulo
  20. Laís Forti Thomaz - Universidade Federal de Goiás
  21. Lauro Gama - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro | Lauro Gama Advogados
  22. Leonardo de Andrade Costa - FGV Direito Rio
  23. Ligia Fabris - FGV Direito Rio
  24. Lucas Carlos Lima - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  25. Luigi Spera - Jornalista, correspondente internacional | Agenzia Nova
  26. Magali Favaretto - FGV Direito São Paulo
  27. Marilda Rosado de Sá Ribeiro - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
  28. Michelle Ratton - FGV Direito São Paulo
  29. Monique Goldfeld Sochaczewski - Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino, Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa
  30. Natasha Salinas - FGV Direito Rio
  31. Nicolo Zingales - FGV Direito Rio
  32. Oliver Stuenkel - FGV Escola de Relações Internacionais
  33. Paulo Emílio Vauthier Borges de Macedo - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
  34. Rafael Prado - Universidade de Barcelona
  35. Rafael Zelesco Barretto - Escola de Guerra Naval (EGN)
  36. Raphael Tinarrage - FGV Direito Rio
  37. Renato Flôres - FGV Núcleo de Inteligência Internacional
  38. Tomaz Espósito Neto - Universidade Federal de Grande Dourados
  39. Vera Thorstensen - FGV Escola de Economia de São Paulo
  40. Victor do Prado - SciencesPo – Paris School of International Affairs  | Brazilian Centre for International Relations
  1. Achilles Skordas - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  2. Anne Weyembergh - Université Libre de Bruxelles
  3. Annita Montoute - University of the West Indies
  4. Ankit Malhotra - Jindal Society
  5. Benedetta Arrighni - GEM Diamond
  6. Brian McGarry - Universiteit Leiden
  7. Bruno Rodrigues - Sciences Po Law School
  8. Eric De Brabandere - Universiteit Leiden
  9. Frank Hoffmeister - Brussels School of Governance | European External Action Service
  10. Geir Ulfstein - European University Institute
  11. Hélène Ruiz-Fabri - Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law
  12. Jan Wouters - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
  13. Jean-Louis de Brouwer - Egmont Institute
  14. Jean-Marc Sorel - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  15. Jed Odermatt - City Law School | University of London
  16. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes - Université de Genève
  17. Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | Constitutional Court of Andorra
  18. Laurence Marquis - Université de Sherbrooke
  19. Mario Telò - LUISS Roma
  20. Miguel Poiares Maduro - European University Institute
  21. Monica Feria-Tinta - Twenty Essex
  22. Mikael Rask Madsen - iCourts | Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Legal Governance
  23. Miriam Cohen - University of Montreal
  24. Olivier Costa - College of Europe
  25. Pedro Villarreal - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  26. Ramona Coman - Université Libre de Bruxelles
  27. Régis Dandoy - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
  28. Salvador Herencia Carrasco - University of Ottawa
  29. Serena Forlati - University of Ferrara

Researchers

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The Rio Course on Regional and International Dispute Settlement is designed to address issues in sub-regional, regional and international dispute settlement before international courts and tribunals, international arbitration and conflict mediation in particular the participation of the European Union in international courts and tribunals.

The course is a high-level five-month intensive programme aimed at promoting specialised education to prepare legal professionals to work with international dispute resolution before international courts and tribunals, international arbitration and mediation of conflicts.

It aims to foster a dialogue between theory and practice of public and private international law dispute settlement and to reach a wide-range of students, including academics, practitioners, members of international organizations, international courts and arbitral institutions, local and state-level policy-makers, civil servants and representatives of the civil society.

The 2023 edition of the Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights will take place from February 21 to June 5, 2024, on Wednesdays, from 2 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. (GMT -3h), in person at the FGV headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (Praia de Botafogo, 190).
 

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FGV Rio Law opens applications for the first edition of the course Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights, an activity of the FGV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, with the support of the European Union Erasmus+ Programme.

The Rio School is a four-month hybrid programme (in person or online), taught in English and Portuguese, aimed at expanding knowledge on universal and regional International Organizations’ practices on Global Governance. The lectures provide an understanding and critical analysis of the International Organizations and the European Union’s institutions, their decision-making process, and challenges to their external action strategy and goals in Latin America.

Featuring an internationally distinguished teaching staff and guest professors and experts from different professional backgrounds and fields of knowledge, a contemporary curriculum, an innovative educational methodology and a carefully selected student body, the course presents an unprecedented programme in Latin America.

The course is designed for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, lawyers and professionals, notably in the areas of Law, International Relations and Social Sciences.

The 2023 edition of the Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights will occur from March 1 to June 14, 2023, on Wednesdays, from 3:50pm to 5:30pm (GMT -3h), in person at the FGV's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (Praia de Botafogo, 190) or online (Zoom Platform). 

RESEARCH

The Centre’s activities, staff and guests are structured around three main core dimensions in order to contribute to the global governance challenges, in particular:
(1) the EU’s role in the Promotion of democratic values in Latin America; (2) the EU’s role in Global Regulation; and (3) the EU’s role in International Dispute Settlement.

The statements provided by staff members of Fundação Getulio Vargas, which inform their identification as such, in articles and interviews published in the media in general, exclusively represent the opinions of their authors and not necessarily the institutional position of FGV. FGV Regulation No. 19/2018.

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