Brazil's Supreme Court Chief Justice Luiz Fux will speak on the role of the Judicial Power in the preservation of Human Rights.

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In this event, Brazil's Supreme Court Chief Justice Luiz Fux will speak on the role of the Judicial Power in the preservation of Human Rights and Democracy. Some other discussion topics include initiatives to internationalize the Judicial Power through the National Council of Justice, as well as the importance of judicial independence as a pillar to the state of law.

Moderator: Kendall Thomas- Nash Professor of Law, Director and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School

Kendall Thomas is a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights whose teaching and research focus on critical race theory, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School, where he leads interdisciplinary projects and programs that explore how the law operates as one of the central ways to create meaning in society. He is a founder of Amend the 13th, a movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to end enforced prison labor. Thomas has taught at Columbia Law since 1986. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and a visiting professor in American studies and Afro-American studies at Princeton University. His writing has appeared in volumes of collected essays and in journals including National Black Law Journal, Widener Law Symposium Journal, and Columbia Journal of European Law.

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