Plauto Cardoso - 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), and Cultural Legal Studies (Law, Literature & Cinema; Law, Justice & politics).

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. He is responsible for the procedural strategies, drawing of legal opinions and legal counsel in administrative, contractual, and corporate and digital law. He coordinates complex multinational deals (M&A), involving the drafting of elaborated multilingual contracts and comprehensive national due diligence procedures. He defends the interests of national and multinational clients in a variety of industries from financial services, factoring, fintechs, startups, among others.

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Doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina,  he holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) in Litigation - New Challenges of Litigation - from Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-Rio), and a Master of Arts (MA) 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 (LL.B) from Cândido Mendes University 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).

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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 visiting lecturer and researcher for several institutions in Argentina, Brazil 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 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).

He is also a lecturer at the National Law School for Training and Improvement of Judges (ENFAM) of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) in Brazil and a lecturer at the Judiciary Law School of the Court of Justice of the State of Piauí (EJUD-PI).

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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;  Compliance and Governance Commission; Constitutional Law 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 Centre for Administrative Law Studies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CEDAB).

• 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.