Human Rights in the Americas: Challenges, Obstacles and Opportunities
Flávia Piovesan is a Commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRCLAS); Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School (1995 and 2000). She was also a human rights fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford in 2005, and has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) on numerous occasions.