Edilson Vitorelli

Professor of Civil Procedural Law

Currículo Lattes

edilsonvitorelli@ufmg.br

Supervises doctoral dissertations and master’s theses

ABOUT

Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in undergraduate, master’s and doctoral courses. Post-doctorate in Law from the Federal University of Bahia, with studies at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law (Luxembourg). PhD in Law from the Federal University of Paraná, master’s degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Visiting scholar at Stanford Law School (USA). Visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (USA) and The University of Sydney (Australia). He is the only Portuguese-speaking author to win the “Mauro Cappelletti” award, given by the International Association of Procedural Law to the best book on Procedural Law in the world. Federal Judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 6th Region. He is interested in research related to collective and structural processes; repetitive litigation; procedural and judicial management; system of binding precedents; empirical research in civil procedure; design of collective and complex conflict resolution.

RESEARCH PROJECT

Conducts research and supervises in the projects:

Access to Justice through Rights (in research line 1, Human Rights and the Democratic Rule of Law)
The Democratic Construction of Judicial Decisions (in research line 1, Human Rights and the Democratic Rule of Law)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Processo Civil Estrutural: Teoria e Prática.
Salvador: Juspodivm, 2024. v.

O devido processo legal coletivo: dos direitos aos litígios coletivos.
São Paulo: RT Thomson Reuters, 2022.

A Supreme Court Made in Brazil: How the Justice System is Reshaping the Law and Politics in the West Second-Largest Democracy?
Campinas: Opera International Publishing, 2022.

El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil: historia, organización y casos relevantes.
Lima: Palestra, 2024.

Introdução ao Processo Civil e à Resolução de Conflitos.
Salvador: Juspodivm, 2023.

Processo Coletivo e Direito à Participação. Técnicas de Atuação Interativa em Litígios Complexos.
Salvador: Juspodivm, 2022.

A Resolução Estrutural de Litígios: uma nova fase do Processo Civil Coletivo Brasileiro.
Ius Dictum: Revista de Teoria Geral do Processo, v. 9, p. 27-38, 2023.

Da educação científica ao consultor técnico pericial: respostas práticas para o problema da análise da perícia pelo juiz.
REVISTA DE PROCESSO, v. 339, p. 39-71, 2023.

Análise Econômica e Comportamental da Distribuição do Custo da Prova no Processo Civil.
REVISTA DE PROCESSO, v. 327, p. 235-264, 2022.

Levando os conceitos a sério: processo estrutural, processo coletivo, processo estratégico e suas diferenças.
REVISTA DE PROCESSO, v. 284, p. 333-369, 2018.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Collective and Structural Civil Procedure, Empirical Research in Procedure, Dispute Resolution Design, Procedural Management, Comparative Civil Procedure.

LINKS OF INTEREST

Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID

PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS

Continuum UFMG | Somos UFMG

MAILING ADDRESS

Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Avenida João Pinheiro, 100
11º andar do Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180