Lucas Carlos Lima
Professor of International Law
Director of the Research Group on International Courts and Tribunals CNPq/UFMG
lclima@ufmg.br
Supervises doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
ABOUT
Professor of International Law in undergraduate and postgraduate law courses at the UFMG Law School. He is coordinator of the International Courts and Tribunals Research Group and coordinator of UFMG’s East Asia Studies Center, a university think tank focused on Asian issues. Professor Lima is Director of Studies for the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association, editor of the International Law Agendas Blog, and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the UFMG Law School. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Law and International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and obtained his doctorate at the Università degli Studi di Macerata in 2017. During his doctorate, he carried out research periods at the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for International Dispute Settlement in Luxembourg. He completed a post-doctoral research period at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (2022-2023). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen (2020) with the Center of Excellence for International Courts and Tribunals – iCourts. Visiting Professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (2024) and at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law (CUPL – 2024). In 2024, he was SUSI Foreign Policy Scholar at the US State Department at the University of Delaware. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He writes regularly for national and international journals on global legal and political issues, in particular involving international courts and tribunals, international conflicts, international organizations, environmental issues and Brazilian legal foreign policy.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Conducts research and supervises in the projects:
Theory and Practice of Law, Organizations and International Courts (research line 1, Power, Citizenship and Development in the Democratic Rule of Law)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Comentário Brasileiro à Declaração do Rio sobre Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento.
Belo Horizonte: D’Plácido, 2022. (Com André de Paiva Toledo)
A Jurisprudência da Corte Internacional de Justiça: História e Influência no Direito Internacional.
Belo Horizonte: Del Rey, 2020. (Com Arno Dal Ri Júnior)
A Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos em Tempos de Crise.
Revista Digital Constituição e Garantia de Direitos, v. 16, p. 28-42, 2024.
A participação brasileira na elaboração do Estatuto da CPJI: o papel de Clovis Bevilaqua a Raul Fernandes.
Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais, v. 16, p. 88-107, 2024.
A resolução de controvérsias ambientais no Direito Internacional.
In: Cadernos de Direito Internacional da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Volume II. Belo Horizonte: Dialética Editora, 2023, v. , p. 13-48.
As funções da interpretação de sentença na Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos.
Revista de Direito Internacional, v. 20, p. 545-561, 2023.
An Unlikely Duo? Regionalism and Jus Cogens in International Law.
Goettingen Journal of International Law, v. 22, p. 219, 2022. (With Loris Marotti)
As decisões de tribunais internacionais e a ciência do Direito Internacional.
In: História da Cultura Jurídica & Ordenamento Jurídico Internacional. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2022, v. , p. 217-240.
A expansão da jurisdição da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos através de opiniões consultivas.
ANUARIO MEXICANO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL, v. 21, p. 125-166, 2021.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Public International Law, Human Rights, International Courts and Tribunals, International Environmental and Climate Law.
LINKS OF INTEREST
Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID
PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS
MAILING ADDRESS
Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Avenida João Pinheiro, 100
11º andar do Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180