Academic Production

05May
2016

Compliance programs and the fight against corporate corruption

  Law 12.846/2013, better known as the Anti-Corruption Law, represented a milestone in the legal system of the country since it established guidelines for corporate responsibilization for acts against Public ...

05May
2016

International investment arbitrations and subnational entities

The role of subnational entities, such as states and municipalities, has been exerting an increasing influence in the field of foreign investment. This action is even more relevant in countries such as Brazil, which ...

01Nov
2015

Transformations in Contemporary Public Law

  The contemporary public law currently goes through postpositivism phase, a period of overcoming the formal legalism, with the recognition of the Constitution and fundamental rights as the central axis of the legal ...

31Aug
2015

Coordenation between Brazilian and foreign authorities

World-sized businesses are organized operationally to maintain simultaneous contact with multiple jurisdictions. The different regulatory impositions that such companies are subject are no less dynamic than the own trade ...

04Apr
2015

Foreign investment in aviation

Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on Bill No. 2/2015, of the Federal Senate, which aims at facilitating foreign investment in the ...

03Apr
2015

Foreign investment in healthcare

Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to the Brazilian legal system a comment on Federal Law No. 13,097, of January 19th, 2015, which oponed new oportunities for foreign investment in the Brazilian healthcare ...

02Apr
2015

Measuring the impact of regulation

  One of the most important conceptual and practical premises to improve the quality of regulatory standards is to correctly measure their impact. Companies, individuals and government agencies, in dealing with the ...

29Jan
2015

Corporate liability for corruption

Corruption committed by corporations has caused many regulatory reactions from several countries. Such within their national legislation, such as through international coordination, via treaties, States have sophisticated the ...

01Dec
2014

Shale gas regulation in Brazil

Shale gas has emerged in recent years as an extremely promising source of energy, despite the controversy about the environmental and social impacts its exploitation entails. In 2013 Brazil put itself in the vanguard of ...

01Dec
2014

Investment in Rio de Janeiro

  The concept of foreign investment is one of the most discussed topics in the International Law of Investment, especially in international arbitrations. While the bilateral investment treaties usually brings their own ...