Juliana Cesario Alvim Editor

Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes is an Assistant Professor at Central European University (CEU) and a tenured Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She holds a Ph.D. from UERJ, an LL.M. from Yale, and degrees in Law (UERJ) and Social Sciences (UFRJ). A visiting fellow at Yale and FGV, she has taught at UFRJ and UERJ. She co-chairs ICON-S Brazil and co-hosts a podcast on the Brazilian Supreme Court. With a decade of human rights litigation experience, she leaded UFMG's Human Rights Clinic and researches gender, constitutionalism, and democracy in Latin America. She is the co-coordinator of Constituições - Center on Constitutionalism and Comparativism of UFMG (Brazil). Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is a tenured Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília, where he has taught since 2009. He earned his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) at Humboldt University of Berlin as a DAAD fellow. He leads the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies and was Dean of the UnB Graduate Program in Law (2014-2016). A CNPq Research Fellow since 2016, he has been a visiting fellow at institutions in Germany, including the Max-Planck Institute. He co-founded ICON-S Brazil and is its current Co-Chair. His work focuses on comparative constitutional law and public law. Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer is a tenured Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) since 2013, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. He was Dean of UFMG's Graduate Law Program (2021-2023), ranked among Brazil's top three by CAPES. A CNPq Research Fellow, he was a visiting researcher at UFMG's Institute for Advanced Studies and King's College London. He co-founded ICON-S Brazil and served as its Executive Secretary (2023-2025). Holding a Master's and Ph.D. from UFMG, he received CAPES' award for Brazil's best law thesis in 2013. He is the co-coordinator of Constituições - Center on Constitutionalism and Comparativism of UFMG (Brazil).