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Cyberlaw Clinic

FGV-CTS (Rio)

The Centre for Technology and Society (CTS) Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil participates in the IP Justice International Cyberlaw Clinic.

The Cyberlaw Clinic’s Legal Faculty Member from the Centre for Technology and Society (CTS) Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law:

Carlos Affonso

Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza
Professor of Law
Centre for Technology and Society (CTS)
Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) School of Law
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Coordenador Adjunto do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio. Professor dos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação lato sensu da FGV Direito Rio. Professor dos cursos de graduação e da pós-graduação em Direito da Pontifícia Universidade Católica - PUC-Rio. Professor dos cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu em Direito do CEPED/UERJ. Membro da Comissão de Direito do Autor e do Entretenimento da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB/RJ). Doutorando e Mestre em Direito Civil na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ. Co-autor dos livros “Comentários à Lei de Imprensa” (Forense/2004) e “Código Civil Interpretado Conforme a Constituição da República” (Renovar/2004).

Law Students in the Cyberlaw Clinic from FGV-CTS School of Law:

Cesar Augusto Moacyr Rutowitsch Beck
Second Year, Centre for Technology and Society - Getulio Vargas Foundation

Academic Achievements: International Baccalaureate Diploma by the British School of Rio de Janeiro; Undergraduate law student – Fundação Getulio Vargas – School of Law (FGV DIREITO RIO). Currently undergoing the fourth term (Average: 8.62/10).

Qualifications: IT knowledge (Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD 2000 and Internet); Fluent English. I was first educated in English, for I was raised in the USA throughout my entire childhood and part of my teenage years. (1986-1992 & 1999-2001); Basic Spanish. My father is Chilean, who once represented the Carrefour group for the Americas. I lived in Santiago of Chile for over a year. (1993-1994).

Professional and Academic Achievements: Ex-Chairman of the Debating Society for the British School of Rio de Janeiro; • Secretary General – LAHCMUN I (Latin America Heads Conference Model United Nations / the first Model UN that gathered all of the Latin American British Schools); I have participated in 14 Model UNs, using Harvard MUN rules: 8 as a delegate, 4 as a director, and once as the Secretary General; House Captain for Pankhurst at the British School of Rio de Janeiro; Current President for the Mário Machado Student Council of FGV DIREITO RIO; Intern at the NGO ActionAid Brazil, in the area for right holders and right to food. Also took part in their section whilst publicizing transnational abuses in Less Economically Developed Countries. Intern at the Technology and Society Center (Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade – CTS, in Portuguese) for FGV DIREITO RIO, where I did research on the Brazilian Digital TV System exposing the risks through the use of DRM technology. I also helped in the Open Business Model project for the Tecnobrega movement in the Belém do Pará case study.