Marcelo Torelly

he is originally from Rio Grande do Sul, where he earned a Law Degree at PUCRS, but spend most of his career living in Brasíl. There he studied at UnB, where he earned a Master Degree in Law and was a DPhil candidate. He arrived in Oxford early January 2014 sponsored by Brazil’s CNPq. He spent the semester here researching how institutional interactions between the Inter-American Human Rights System and constitutional legal regimes from Latin American countries are reshaping Constitutional Law across the region and allowing the emergence of new constitutional actors and patterns of transconstitutional governance. During his stay at the university he was also a visiting academic at the Faculty of Law. He has been a visiting researcher in the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School; a Special Advisor for Brazilian Ministry of Justice in Transitional Justice issues; the Head of Brazil’s Amnesty Commission Historical Memory Department; and the manager of the joying international program for transitional justice in the global south sponsored by Brazil’s Federal Government and the United Nations Program for Development. Published work includes “Justiça de Transição e Estado Constitucional de Direito” (Fórum, 2012) and also work on transitional justice, constitutional law and human rights available in English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.