Karina Denari G. de Mattos

Karina is a fully qualified Brazilian lawyer and Law Professor member of the Justice and Constitution Research Group and the Access to Justice and Disaster Group at FGV São Paulo Law School. She holds a PhD in Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). She was awarded federal government grants (CAPES-PDSE/Print) for guest research placements at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (United States) and at the LawTransform at the University of Bergen (Norway). She was a researcher at the Rio Doce Project at FGV São Paulo Law School and she was a Temporary Lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Law School. She was awarded a grant to coordinate judicial gender equality studies in a project with Oxford/ Brazilian Federal Judges Association. She is a speaker and lecturer for private and public lawyers, judges, universities, think tanks and civil society initiatives focused on disaster law and structural litigation in Brazil.