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FCPA Professor
Long-Sealed Individual Enforcement Action Comes To Light
By Mike Koehler
In October 2022, Charles Finkel was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the S.D. of New York with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in connection with an alleged bribery…
Inforrm's Blog
Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University: Newsletter, 29 October 2026
By INFORRM
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an…
JURIST
HRW finds Rio police obstructed body cameras during raid that killed 122
Human Rights Watch (HRW) concluded Wednesday that Rio de Janeiro police obstructed their body cameras during a 2025 raid that killed 122 people, and that none of the footage it reviewed shows…
Verfassungsblog
Democratic Resistance in the Brazilian Elections
In one of the most dramatic elections in the history of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has achieved a dramatic victory against the far-right incumbent Flávio Bolsonaro, son of…
Verfassungsblog
The Legal Structure of the Incumbency Advantage
Imagine that you intend to run for president of the Republic, governor of a state, or mayor of a municipality. During the campaign, you can choose to run either as…
Connect on Tech
Brazil: New SAC Decree on Human Customer Service and AI
By Renata Amaral, Flavia Rebello, Daniel Rocha*
In brief Human customer service guaranteed from 8 am to 8 pm, every day. Maximum wait time of 20 seconds on the phone. Immediate cancellation at any stage of the…
Verfassungsblog
The Constitution Releases Its Children
The shock over the shift to the right in the first round of the Brazilian presidential, congressional, and state elections on October 4th runs deep. It is felt not only…
Verfassungsblog
Die Verfassung entlässt ihre Kinder
Der Schock über den Rechtsrutsch in der ersten Runde der brasilianischen Präsidentschafts-, Kongress- und Gouverneurswahlen sitzt tief. Nicht nur bei Anhängern des Amtsinhabers Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva und seiner,…
Verfassungsblog
Carbon Majors in Brazilian Courts
On October 9, 2026, Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office and a nonprofit environmental association, Instituto Preservar, sued Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. for damages caused by the April and May 2024 floods…
Truth on the Market
Two Years, 57 Pages, No Merger: Amazon, Anthropic, and Brazil’s Filing Problem
The wave of artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships and “acqui-hires”—deals to acquire a company’s talent—has reached Brazil. The tribunal of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) decided its first batch…