The Colloquium comprehends lectures on International Law and International Relations given by esteemed professors and practitioners. The Colloquium will occur acording to five thematic areas.

REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

August 13, 6h30 pm , Universidade FUMEC

Oppening Lecture

Roberto Ruiz Diaz Labrano

Bachelor of Law by the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Doctor in Juridical Sciences. Specializaion on European Community by the Colegio de México and by the Instituto Europeo de Integración. Vice Dean of the  Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Asunsión, Professor of Private International Law, Community Law to graduation courses , profesor of Social Scienses and International Relations on to Master degree candidates.

• Regionalismo y Mercosur (Regionalism and Mercosur)

DIREITO E RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS

August 14, 9h00 am , UFMG Law School

Regionalism and Universalism on International Studies:

Fragmentation and Convergences and their challenges and perspectives to International Law and International Relations

John W. Reifenberg, Jr.

Professor at the Michigan State University. Instructor at Southern Methodist University Law School, and Assistant Professor of Law at Nova University Law School. Executive Director of the Center for Canadian-United States Law and Chair of the International and Comparative Law Program at the Law College. Author of the 1987 Jessup International Moot Court Problem. Fellow at Wuhan University Law School in the People's Republic of China (1990-91).

• "Fragmentation of International Law:  Difficulties Arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law" - The 2006 Report of the Study Group of the International Law Commission

Wagner Menezes

Arbitrator of the Mercosur Tribunal and the Madrid International Tribunal of Arbitrators - President of the ABDI - Brazilian International Law Association. Doctor in Latin American Integration - Universidade de São Paulo, (USP) (2007), post-doctor at the Universitá degli Studi di Padova - Itália (2007). Researcher at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Seas - ITLOS, Hamburg, Germany (2007).

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DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Augut 14, 3h00s pm , UFMG Law School

International Environmental Law Regimes:

Protection of the Global and Local Environment

Haroldo Machado Filho

General Supervisor of projects related to climate change UNDP/Brazil. Special Advisor of the Inter-ministerial Commission on Climate Change. Negotiator of the Brazilian Government in UN Conferences on Climate Change. PhD on International Law at the Institute of Interational Studies (IHEI), Geneva, Switzerland. Master of International Relations, UnB. Lawyer graduated at the UFMG. 

• O Regime Multilateral da Mudança Global do Clima: desafios e oportunidades (The Multilateral Climate Change Regime: challenges and opportunities)

Jerome Fromageau

Professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 Jean Monnet Faculty and of the Louvre School. Higher education on Law History and on Social Sciences (Université Paris II), Doctorate on Law Université Paris II (1989). Member of the Scientific Council - Université Paris-Sud 11. Former-Member of the Administration Council.

• Le Droit de la Forêt au XXIe Siècle: Aspects Internationnaux (Forrest Law on the XXIst Century: International Aspects)

HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW

Wellington Carneiro Pereira

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official to Brazil. Masters degree on International Human Rights Law - University of Oxford (2006) and Master of International Law degree  - Roccisky Universitet Drujby Narodov, Russia (1996). Bachelor of Social and Juridical Sciences - Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (1991).

• Universalimo e Regionalismo na proteção dos Refugiados

Conor Foley

Conor Foley is a humanitarian aid worker. He has worked for a variety of human rights and humanitarian aid organizations, including Liberty, Amnesty International and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He currently lives and works in Brazil, and is a research fellow at the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham.

• Humanitarian interventions: A Responsibility to Protect or a New Form of Imperialism
  

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

August 15, 3h00 pm , UFMG Law School

Foundations and Perspectives on the Multi and Bilateral Trade Negotiations

Fernando de Magalhães Furlan

Member of the Administrative Council of Economic Defense - CADE. Director of the Department of Commercial Defense (DECOM), of the International Trade Secretariat (SECEX), of the Ministry of Development, Industry and International Trade -  2005/2008. Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Doctorate on Political Sciences - 2006. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Executive Program in Governmental Performance Management.

• Supranacionalidade e relações jurídicas internacionais (Supranacionality on the international legal relations)
  

Paulo Ferracioli

Professor of International Trade Policy and Economy at FGV Management and at International Relations Institute, PUC-Rio. As official of the Brazilian National Bank of Development (BNDES), where he participated of the Brazil-Canada Aircraft trade disputes. At the National Intitute of Measures (No (Inmetro) was the responsible for the WTO “The Focal Point on Technical Barriers” and Mercosur “Working Subgroup 3 National Coordinator”. Electric Engineer (ITA), Master of Economy (IE/UFRJ) International Relations Specialist (UCAM).

• O Brasil Pós-Doha: Perspectivas de Negociações Multi e Bilaterais (Brazil Post Doha: Multi and Bilateral Perspectives
  

SEMINAR - SPECIAL SESSION ON LITERATURE

August 16, 11h00 am , UFMG Law School

Marli de Oliveira Fantini Scarpelli

Associate Professor at the UFMG Language School, Research Chamber Coordinator, Membre of the UFMG Language School Research Department Letter, Linguistics and Arts Assisting Committee, Leader of the Research Group Net REDES - Ibero-Afro-American Literature and Culture . Author of the Doctorate Thesis  Fronteiras em falso: a poética migrante de Guimarães Rosa. (Fake Frontiers, The migrating poetry of Guimarães Rosa).

Dr. Luiz Otávio Savassi Rocha

Professor at the UFMG Medical School, Researcher of the life and work of Guimarães Rosa, author of the Biographic work João Guimarães Rosa.