Brazil Month@UW/LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: "New State Activism in Brazil: Continuing Concerns and New Challenges"

In his talk. Prof. Coutinho will discuss continuing concerns and explore new challenges from a legal and institutional perspective. To erect a solid developmental state, Brazil urgently needs to engage in some sort of democratic planning the neither Lula nor Dilma managed to put into practice. And to make that possible, lawyers able to assess and reinvent political, economic and social institutions are more necessary than ever, he argues.
*A FREE Lunch will be served*