2016

The legal positivism of Hans Kelsen and the Brazilian Constituent Assembly of 1933-1934
The Constituent Assembly started in 1933, and at the time was part of the troubled political context of the beginning of the Vargas Government and the Constitutional Revolution of 1932. In the course of these events, jurists ...
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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 ...
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2016

Recommended reading – The renounce of revisional procedures in international arbitration
The arbitration system presupposes the recognition by law of a significant degree of freedom of the parties to take away from the judiciary the prerogative of exercising jurisdiction. This margin has been well accepted ...
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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 ...
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2015

Place of incorporation & brazilian depositary receipts & applicable-law
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on Administrative Procedure No. Rj2012/11523, issued by the Brazilian Securities Commission. The post ...
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2015

Brazilian challenges in international trade
International contracts put firms and lawyers in the complex position to find appropriate solutions in the middle of the application of different legal systems. To facilitate global trade, the United Nations sponsored the ...
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2015

Reciprocity principle in international law and tax exemption for airlines
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on AEROVIAS NACIONALES DE COLOMBIA S/A AVIANCA v. UNIAO FEDERAL. He discusses the reciprocity ...
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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 ...
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2015

Base Erosion and Profit Shifting no Supremo Tribunal Federal
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on the direct action for the declaration of unconstitutionality (ADI No. 5.366) filed before the ...
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2015

Multiple Enforcements of Foreign Judgements
Bruno Fernandes Dias has posted on his blog dedicated to Brazilian judicial and administrative courts’ rulings a comment on the SEC 6.079 – ED&F Man Commodity Advisers Limited v. S.A Fluxo-Comércio e Assessoria ...
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