Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado

Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado joined São Paulo Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation as full-time Professor of Law in 2007. She was formerly, since 2004, a full time researcher at the same institution. She teaches courses on Criminal Law, Criminology and Sociology of Law, as well as seminars in the Master Program on Law and Development. She graduated in Law from the University of São Paulo (1999) and obtained her Master (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in Philosophy and Theory of Law at the same university. While in the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) she is a member of the Law and Democracy Nucleus since 2004 and coordinates an empirical research on Racism and Gender in the Law since 2007. Her current research focuses on criminal theory and punishment; the increase of criminalization and penalization; and the relations between the Brazilian black and gender movements and the Law. She has been visiting scholar at the Center for Latin-American Studies of UC Berkeley (October 2011-February 2012), the Latin-American Institute Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (November, 2009-February 2010; July, 2012); the Max-Planck-Institute für ausländisches und internationals Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Br., Germany (August, 2006-Februar, 2007; July 2007; November, 2008-January, 2009) and at the Department of Philosophy of Law of the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (March-July, 2006). She has recently worked in research projects financed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice: Equal rights between men and women (2008-2009, as researcher); Corporate Criminal Liability in Brazil (2008-2009, as coordinator); Alternatives to punishment (2007-2008, as coordinator); Reform of economic crime legislation (2006-2008, as researcher). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)