Universidade Federal do Paraná

Faculty Member, Direito Civil e Processual Civil

About

Admitted to practice (Brazil) in 1993. He is a senior partner of Justen, Pereira, Oliveira e Talamini – Sociedade de Advogados (Curitiba, São Paulo e Brasília). He is a civil procedure writer and is a law professor at Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, having published over eighty articles and essays and several books on civil procedure (including a law school textbook currently in its 11th edition), constitutional law, arbitration and public law. He has recently co-edited and written for the book Arbitration and State Parties (2010). He constantly acts as counsel, arbitrator or consultant in litigation, arbitration and transactions involving domestic and international parties in infrastructure projects in Brazil, with focus on public procurement, civil construction services and supplies, telecommunications, government franchises and PPPs, sanitation, water supply and energy. He is often consulted to deliver legal opinions on civil procedure and constitutional law. He holds an LL.M (2000) and PhD (2004) in Civil Procedure from Universidade de São Paulo – USP. In 2008, based on a public examination and the submission of a dissertation on constitutional jurisdiction, USP also granted him professorship status (“Livre Docência”). He is a member of several international civil procedure associations and vice-president of the arbitration center of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná.