New visitor at iCourts - Gabriela Navarro
Gabriela Navarro is a professor at the Federal University of Lavras, teaching in the fields of human rights and public law. Her dissertation, "Measuring the effectiveness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights", defended at Johann Wolfgang University (Germany) with summa cum lauda has been awarded with the prestigious WISAG Dissertation Preis. She has researched about the interplay between international adjudication and domestic politics, particularly in the field of indigenous rights. She has published articles in renowned scientific journals regarding strategic international litigation of indigenous peoples rights. Her last article, "Indigenous rights in south america: observance with inter-american standards", analysed whether the South American countries are observing the inter-American parameters for indigenous rights, considering constitutional, legal and judicial parameters.
During her time in iCourts, Gabriela will work on her research about the interplay between the brazilian Supreme Court and the international law on indigenous peoples rights, establishing how the national court became a strong resilience source against intense setbacks on indigenous rights.