Fabio De Sa E Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabio De Sa E Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabio De Sa E |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA F S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8753-7756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Consciência jurídica relacional e anticorrupção
A partir de 2014, a política brasileira foi sacudida pela operação Lava Jato (LJ), uma iniciativa anticorrupção centrada no direito. A LJ expôs um grande esquema de corrupção na empresa nacional de petróleo, a Petrobras, envolvendo seus diretores, dirigentes de partidos políticos e grandes empreiteiras. Para alguns, a LJ representou um marco, um novo capítulo na história do Brasil, promovendo o "estado de direito" e um desejo coletivo de "acabar …
Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America
Journal Article Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato by Ezequiel A Gonzalez-Ocantos, Paula Munoz Chirinos, Nara Pavao and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo Get access Ezequiel A Gonzalez-Ocantos, Paula Munoz Chirinos, Nara Pavao, and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 305 pp. $34.99. Fabio de Sa e Silva Fabio de Sa e Silva University of Oklahoma https://orcid.…
Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy
Every other day, books and articles are published that examine the withering of democracy across multiple national contexts, perhaps best summarized by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zibblat’s How Democracies Die . The law has not been ignored in this burgeoning literature. Telling examples are the studies on autocratic legalism by Javier Corrales and Kim Lane Scheppele; Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq’s book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy ; a rece…
Global Pro Bono
The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries – including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore – and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever…
Law and Illiberalism
In democratic backsliding, threats to democracy no longer come from abrupt, radical ruptures promoted by those who are close to, but outside of, state power. They come from those who win elections and, while in office, systematically undermine accountability institutions and minority rights. Zakaria used the term illiberal democracies to describe these regimes where popularly elected governments are divorced from political freedoms and accountabi…
Autocratic Legalism 2.0
Since the 2000s, scholars have been faced with a new phenomenon, which political scientists eventually labelled democratic backsliding. Law has not been central in studies of democratic backsliding, but it has not been completely absent either. In the mid-2010s, scholars––mostly from political science and constitutional law––began tracing the links between legal norms/institutions and the degeneration of democracies in countries such as Venezuela…
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption
Starting in 2014, Brazilian politics was shaken up by the lava jato (LJ) operation, a law-centered anticorruption initiative. LJ unveiled a large corruption scheme in Brazil's national oil company Petrobras, which involved Petrobras directors, political party officials, and large construction companies. LJ was both disruptive and contentious. To some, it started a new chapter in Brazilian history, marked by greater respect for the "rule of law" a…
Not falling for that’
Legalised accountability – the definition of torture as an illicit behaviour and the mobilisation of law-enforcement agencies, prosecutorial offices and courts to gather evidence, prosecute and convict torture perpetrators – has become central to anti-torture policies around the world, including Brazil. Based on legal-consciousness scholarship and in-depth interviews, this paper investigates the place and meaning of law in the everyday lives of B…
From Car Wash to Bolsonaro
Law and lawyers tend to be seen as either preferential victims of or key counterforces to rising illiberalism. Brazil offers a good testbed for these claims. Brazilian democracy has deteriorated considerably, as epitomized by the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Yet, since 2014, law and lawyers have become ever more central to Brazil's field of state power. As the anti‐corruption initiative Car Wash (Lava Jato) gained momentum, Brazilian judge…
A new republic of lawyers? Legal careers, state power, and political change in contemporary Brazil
The literature on political science and public policy offers many explanations for why legal professionals can come to the forefront of political processes, as it has remarkably happened in the current Brazilian crisis. Building on a political sociology approach, namely that set forth by Bourdieu, I treat the legal profession and the state as interconnected ‘fields’ and find three signs of change in their co-structuration in post-1988 Brazil. The…
Legal Professionals and Development Strategies
This study explores the role of corporate lawyers in the construction and operation of a key area of the Brazilian economy over a thirty-year period. It looks at three periods in the history of the Brazilian telecoms sector: the fall of state monopoly; global restructuring, neoliberalism, and privatization; and the recent resurgence of state activism. In the first two periods, lawyers worked to facilitate privatization and to create a lightly reg…
Hegemonia e contra-hegemonia na globalização do direito
DOI: 10.12957/dep.2015.15408 Resumo Hegemonia e contra hegemonia na globalização de direito: a “advocacia de interesse público" nos Estados Unidos e na América Latina Este trabalho se propõe a revisitar o texto “Poderá o Direito ser emancipatório?”, de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, tendo em vista atuais processos de difusão de ideologias e práticas jurídicas com pretensão emancipatória, como parte dos processos de globalização aos quais se refere o…
Nem isto, nem aquilo
Embora o tema da segurança pública tenha inspirado inúmeros estudos acadêmicos e técnicos ao longo dos últimosanos, pouca atenção tem sido dada às medidas adotadas pelos gestores públicos na tentativa de intervir sobre ospontos críticos identificados naquelas avaliações e refletidos na própria opinião pública. Este artigo busca descrevereste campo ainda pouco delimitado (o da ação dos governos no tema da segurança pública), reconstruindo a trajet…
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, Para uma revolução democrática da justiça
Dentre os maiores benefícios que nós brasileiros podemos auferir da conhecida empatia que Boaventura de Sousa Santos nutre pelo país está a sua permanente disposição não só para analisar alguns dos problemas que afligem a nossa sociedade, mas também para tomar partido de lutas importantes ao fortalecimento da nossa democracia. Um exemplo notável disso ocorreu há bem pouco, quando ele esteve em Belo Horizonte para proferir uma palestra a uma platé…
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption
Starting in 2014, Brazilian politics was shaken up by the lava jato (LJ) operation, a law-centered anticorruption initiative. LJ unveiled a large corruption scheme in Brazil's national oil company Petrobras, which involved Petrobras directors, political party officials, and large construction companies. LJ was both disruptive and contentious. To some, it started a new chapter in Brazilian history, marked by greater respect for the "rule of law" a…
From Car Wash to Bolsonaro
Law and lawyers tend to be seen as either preferential victims of or key counterforces to rising illiberalism. Brazil offers a good testbed for these claims. Brazilian democracy has deteriorated considerably, as epitomized by the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Yet, since 2014, law and lawyers have become ever more central to Brazil's field of state power. As the anti‐corruption initiative Car Wash (Lava Jato) gained momentum, Brazilian judge…
Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy
Every other day, books and articles are published that examine the withering of democracy across multiple national contexts, perhaps best summarized by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zibblat’s How Democracies Die . The law has not been ignored in this burgeoning literature. Telling examples are the studies on autocratic legalism by Javier Corrales and Kim Lane Scheppele; Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq’s book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy ; a rece…
Autocratic Legalism 2.0
Since the 2000s, scholars have been faced with a new phenomenon, which political scientists eventually labelled democratic backsliding. Law has not been central in studies of democratic backsliding, but it has not been completely absent either. In the mid-2010s, scholars––mostly from political science and constitutional law––began tracing the links between legal norms/institutions and the degeneration of democracies in countries such as Venezuela…
Not falling for that’
Legalised accountability – the definition of torture as an illicit behaviour and the mobilisation of law-enforcement agencies, prosecutorial offices and courts to gather evidence, prosecute and convict torture perpetrators – has become central to anti-torture policies around the world, including Brazil. Based on legal-consciousness scholarship and in-depth interviews, this paper investigates the place and meaning of law in the everyday lives of B…
Legal Professionals and Development Strategies
This study explores the role of corporate lawyers in the construction and operation of a key area of the Brazilian economy over a thirty-year period. It looks at three periods in the history of the Brazilian telecoms sector: the fall of state monopoly; global restructuring, neoliberalism, and privatization; and the recent resurgence of state activism. In the first two periods, lawyers worked to facilitate privatization and to create a lightly reg…
A new republic of lawyers? Legal careers, state power, and political change in contemporary Brazil
The literature on political science and public policy offers many explanations for why legal professionals can come to the forefront of political processes, as it has remarkably happened in the current Brazilian crisis. Building on a political sociology approach, namely that set forth by Bourdieu, I treat the legal profession and the state as interconnected ‘fields’ and find three signs of change in their co-structuration in post-1988 Brazil. The…
Nem isto, nem aquilo
Embora o tema da segurança pública tenha inspirado inúmeros estudos acadêmicos e técnicos ao longo dos últimosanos, pouca atenção tem sido dada às medidas adotadas pelos gestores públicos na tentativa de intervir sobre ospontos críticos identificados naquelas avaliações e refletidos na própria opinião pública. Este artigo busca descrevereste campo ainda pouco delimitado (o da ação dos governos no tema da segurança pública), reconstruindo a trajet…
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, Para uma revolução democrática da justiça
Dentre os maiores benefícios que nós brasileiros podemos auferir da conhecida empatia que Boaventura de Sousa Santos nutre pelo país está a sua permanente disposição não só para analisar alguns dos problemas que afligem a nossa sociedade, mas também para tomar partido de lutas importantes ao fortalecimento da nossa democracia. Um exemplo notável disso ocorreu há bem pouco, quando ele esteve em Belo Horizonte para proferir uma palestra a uma platé…
Nem isto, nem aquilo
Embora o tema da segurança pública tenha inspirado inúmeros estudos acadêmicos e técnicos ao longo dos últimosanos, pouca atenção tem sido dada às medidas adotadas pelos gestores públicos na tentativa de intervir sobre ospontos críticos identificados naquelas avaliações e refletidos na própria opinião pública. Este artigo busca descrevereste campo ainda pouco delimitado (o da ação dos governos no tema da segurança pública), reconstruindo a trajet…
Hegemonia e contra-hegemonia na globalização do direito
DOI: 10.12957/dep.2015.15408 Resumo Hegemonia e contra hegemonia na globalização de direito: a “advocacia de interesse público" nos Estados Unidos e na América Latina Este trabalho se propõe a revisitar o texto “Poderá o Direito ser emancipatório?”, de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, tendo em vista atuais processos de difusão de ideologias e práticas jurídicas com pretensão emancipatória, como parte dos processos de globalização aos quais se refere o…
A new republic of lawyers? Legal careers, state power, and political change in contemporary Brazil
The literature on political science and public policy offers many explanations for why legal professionals can come to the forefront of political processes, as it has remarkably happened in the current Brazilian crisis. Building on a political sociology approach, namely that set forth by Bourdieu, I treat the legal profession and the state as interconnected ‘fields’ and find three signs of change in their co-structuration in post-1988 Brazil. The…
Legal Professionals and Development Strategies
This study explores the role of corporate lawyers in the construction and operation of a key area of the Brazilian economy over a thirty-year period. It looks at three periods in the history of the Brazilian telecoms sector: the fall of state monopoly; global restructuring, neoliberalism, and privatization; and the recent resurgence of state activism. In the first two periods, lawyers worked to facilitate privatization and to create a lightly reg…
Not falling for that’
Legalised accountability – the definition of torture as an illicit behaviour and the mobilisation of law-enforcement agencies, prosecutorial offices and courts to gather evidence, prosecute and convict torture perpetrators – has become central to anti-torture policies around the world, including Brazil. Based on legal-consciousness scholarship and in-depth interviews, this paper investigates the place and meaning of law in the everyday lives of B…
From Car Wash to Bolsonaro
Law and lawyers tend to be seen as either preferential victims of or key counterforces to rising illiberalism. Brazil offers a good testbed for these claims. Brazilian democracy has deteriorated considerably, as epitomized by the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Yet, since 2014, law and lawyers have become ever more central to Brazil's field of state power. As the anti‐corruption initiative Car Wash (Lava Jato) gained momentum, Brazilian judge…
Global Pro Bono
The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries – including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore – and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever…
Law and Illiberalism
In democratic backsliding, threats to democracy no longer come from abrupt, radical ruptures promoted by those who are close to, but outside of, state power. They come from those who win elections and, while in office, systematically undermine accountability institutions and minority rights. Zakaria used the term illiberal democracies to describe these regimes where popularly elected governments are divorced from political freedoms and accountabi…
Autocratic Legalism 2.0
Since the 2000s, scholars have been faced with a new phenomenon, which political scientists eventually labelled democratic backsliding. Law has not been central in studies of democratic backsliding, but it has not been completely absent either. In the mid-2010s, scholars––mostly from political science and constitutional law––began tracing the links between legal norms/institutions and the degeneration of democracies in countries such as Venezuela…
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption
Starting in 2014, Brazilian politics was shaken up by the lava jato (LJ) operation, a law-centered anticorruption initiative. LJ unveiled a large corruption scheme in Brazil's national oil company Petrobras, which involved Petrobras directors, political party officials, and large construction companies. LJ was both disruptive and contentious. To some, it started a new chapter in Brazilian history, marked by greater respect for the "rule of law" a…
Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy
Every other day, books and articles are published that examine the withering of democracy across multiple national contexts, perhaps best summarized by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zibblat’s How Democracies Die . The law has not been ignored in this burgeoning literature. Telling examples are the studies on autocratic legalism by Javier Corrales and Kim Lane Scheppele; Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq’s book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy ; a rece…
Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America
Journal Article Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato by Ezequiel A Gonzalez-Ocantos, Paula Munoz Chirinos, Nara Pavao and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo Get access Ezequiel A Gonzalez-Ocantos, Paula Munoz Chirinos, Nara Pavao, and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 305 pp. $34.99. Fabio de Sa e Silva Fabio de Sa e Silva University of Oklahoma https://orcid.…
Consciência jurídica relacional e anticorrupção
A partir de 2014, a política brasileira foi sacudida pela operação Lava Jato (LJ), uma iniciativa anticorrupção centrada no direito. A LJ expôs um grande esquema de corrupção na empresa nacional de petróleo, a Petrobras, envolvendo seus diretores, dirigentes de partidos políticos e grandes empreiteiras. Para alguns, a LJ representou um marco, um novo capítulo na história do Brasil, promovendo o "estado de direito" e um desejo coletivo de "acabar …
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Rule of law (5 works) · Autocracy (4 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 works)