The University of Oklahoma

College of Law

in conjunction with the

International Intertribal Trade and Investment Organization

is pleased to offer the sixth of a monthly free educational lecture series on Indigenous Law and Policy

 

Register for FREE at this link: https://oklahoma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zyRTHlI2QPqiP0kS5q4v0A

 

Indigenous People’s Legal Framework in Brazil: An Overview 

 Featuring

Fernanda Frizzo Bragato

Professor of Law,  Unisinos Law School (Brazil)

and

Marco Antonio Delfino de Almeida 

Federal Prosecutor – Government of Brazil

and

Special Host-Expert

Dr. Lindsay G. Robertson

Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma, College of Law

 

Discussion Date:  Wednesday October 27, 2021 4:00 pm (Central Time)

 

 

PANELISTS

 

Fernanda Frizzo Bragato

 

Fernanda Frizzo Bragato is Full Professor of Law at Unisinos Law School (Brazil) since 2007 where she coordinates the Human Rights Center, teaches in Undergraduate and Graduate Program, and supervises Master and PhD students. She conducts research and publishes articles in human rights theory, decolonial thinking, and indigenous rights. Since 2015, her work is focused on indigenous land rights/conflicts in Brazil in the context of risk for atrocities. Professor Bragato is graduated in Law at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and holds Master and PhD degree in Law from Unisinos. In 2012, she was Visiting Scholar at Birkbeck College of University of London, in 2017,  Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Cardozo Law School, and in 2021, International Fellow in Comparative and Federal Indian law at University of Oklahoma College of Law.

 

 

Marco Antonio Delfino de Almeida 

 

Marco Antonio Delfino de Almeida is a Federal Prosecutor. His main area of expertise involves indigenous, tribal peoples and Maroon (Quilombolas) communities. He began his work in the Amazon region (Altamira-PA) in 2006. Since 2008, he has been working in Dourados-MS, the state with the second largest indigenous population in the country. Specialist degree in Constitutional Law, masters in social Anthropology and doctoral candidate in Indigenous History (03/2023). International Fellow in Comparative and Federal Law at University of Oklahoma College of Law.

 

 

Dr. Lindsay G. Robertson

(moderator)

 

 

Professor Lindsay G. Robertson joined the law faculty in 1997.  He teaches courses in Federal Indian Law, Comparative and International Indigenous Peoples Law, Constitutional Law and Legal History and serves as Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy and Founding Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic.

Professor Robertson was Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Department of State delegations to the Working Groups on the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2004-06) and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2004-07) and from 2010-12 was a member of the U.S Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law.  In 2014, he served as advisor on indigenous peoples law to the Chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.  He has spoken widely on international and comparative indigenous peoples law issues in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

In 2014, he was the recipient of the first David L. Boren Award for Outstanding Global Engagement.  He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.  Professor Robertson is the author of Conquest by Law (Oxford University Press 2005).