Plauto Cardoso is a writer, lawyer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Public Law, especially in the areas of Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Law and Politics, and Law and Literature.
Doctoral student in Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, he holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) in Litigation - New Challenges of Litigation - from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getúlio Vargas Foundation) (FGV-Rio), and a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex (US), England. He is a Specialist in Judicial Sciences from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and a specialist in Linguistics from the University of Brasília (UnB). He holds a law degree from Universidade Cândido Mendes (Cândido Mendes University) Rio de Janeiro (UCAM), as well as an English Language and Literature degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
He is the author of four books and has produced several articles, both independently and co-authored. He has received sixteen national and international awards and distinctions in the fields of law, socio-legal research, education, and culture.
He works as a lecturer and researcher for several institutions in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. In Brazil, Plauto lectures Ethics, Morals, and Language in Institutional Practices at the Postgraduate program in Compliance, Ethics, and Social Governance of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC/Minas), and he is also a researcher for the Otávio Frias Filho Chair of Communication, Democracy, and Diversity Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP).
In Argentina, among other institutions, he is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) where he collaborates with the Catedra Bercholc of Theory of State as an Assistant Lecturer in the modules Justice and Politics: the Supreme Court and political power through constitutional control; Public Opinion, Media, and Democracy; New Legal and Political Challenges for the State and Law and Politics through Film. He is also a researcher at UBA on the Ubacyt project on the implementation of public hearings in the Supreme Courts, Constitutional Courts, and Supreme Constitutional Courts of Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil.
He is also a lecturer at the National School for Training and Improvement of Magistrates (ENFAM) of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) in Brazil and a lecturer at the Escola Judiciária do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Piauí (Judiciary School of the Court of Justice of the State of Piauí) (EJUD-PI).
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Contemporary Public Law (RDPC), of the Journal of Public Administration Law (REDAP), of the Argentinean Journal of Constitutional Justice, and Revista da Escola Judiciária do Piauí (Journal of the Judiciary School of Piauí). Plauto acts as an external expert evaluator for the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) research projects evaluation committee as he is also the co-editor-in-chief and columnist for the Jornal de Direito Administrativo (Journal of Administrative Law) (JDA).
He is the Executive Director of the Brazilian Institute of Resolvent Advocacy (IBAR), the Director of the Institute for Integration Law of the Argentine Association of Constitutional Justice (AAJC), and the Director of the Plauto Cardoso Institute for Teaching and Research (IPC).
He is the Outside General Counsel for the Brazilian Association of Cash-in-Transit Companies (ABTV) and coordinates the Plauto Cardoso Law Firm' Strategic Litigation department, acting mainly on Supreme Court cases. Planning and holding congresses and seminars are also part of his annual activities.
Some of his affiliations:
Honorary Member of the Association of Magistrates of Piauí (AMAPI) - Judge Helvídio Clementino de Aguiar medal.
Member of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies / Parliamentary Researchers Network (REDIPAL).
Member of the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers (IAB).
Member of the Permanent Commission on Constitutional Law of the IAB.
Member of the Argentine Association of Constitutional Justice (AAJC).
Member of the Constitutional Justice Observatory of the Universidad del Este (University of the East), Province of La Plata, Argentina.
Member of the Centre for Administrative Law Studies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CEDAB).
Member of the Administrative Law Commission of the IAB.
Member of the Institute of Administrative Law of Rio de Janeiro (IDARJ)
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Seminar on Contemporary Administrative Law (SDAC).
Member of the Brazilian Labour Relations Group (GRTB).
Member of the Human Rights Commission of the OAB/MG (Brazilian Bar Association/state of Minas Gerais).
Member of the Bioethics and Biolaw Commission of the OAB/MG (Brazilian Bar Association/state of Minas Gerais).
Member of the University of Sussex Alumni Association.
