Plauto Cardoso is a writer, lawyer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Public Law, especially in the areas of Constitutional Law, Law & Technology (Public Administration, Digitalisation, Human Rights and Governance / Startups), and Cultural Legal Studies (Law & Literature; Law, Justice & politics).
Doctoral student at the University of Buenos (UBA), Argentina, he holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) in Litigation from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-Rio), and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex (US), England. He is a Specialist in Judicial Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and a specialist in Linguistics from the University of Brasília (UnB). He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) from Cândido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro (UCAM), as well as a Full double degree in Teaching “Licenciatura em Letras” and BA in English Language and English and American Literature 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 as a strong affinity for technology and public management and has a great empirical interest on how governments and their agencies use technology to attempt to deliver fundamental public services, especially in connection to Administrative Digital Law, the use of ADS systems in public decision making, Open Government, Open State and Public Management.
He works as a visiting lecturer and researcher for several institutions in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. He has a strong empirical interest on how governments and their agencies use technology to attempt to deliver fundamental public services. In this respect, he is a guest lecturer at the National University Lomas De Zamora (UNLZ), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches the module “Administrative Digital Law: open government, open State and public management in the UN 2030 Goals” in the Postgraduate studies in Administrative Procedural Law.
As a legal social scientist, law makes little sense to him when isolated from societal affairs. Within this line of research, in Brazil, he teaches the modules “From hermeneutic challenges to artificial intelligence: major issues and structural paradigms of the judiciary through the lens of the social sciences, literature, and philosophy of law” and “Socio-legal Research Methodology” at the National Law School for the Training and Improvement of Judges (ENFAM) of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He also teaches “Ethics, Morals, and Language in Institutional Practices” at the Postgraduate programme in Compliance, Ethics, and Social Governance of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC/Minas). 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 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 of Journal of the Judiciary School of Piauí, Brazil. 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 Journal of Administrative Law (JDA).
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 Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Commission; the Compliance and Governance Commission; Constitutional and Administrative Law Commissions of the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers (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 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 Human Rights Commission of the OAB/MG (Brazilian Bar Association/state of Minas Gerais).
