Chief Justice of Brazil, Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, has an intense international academic agenda planned for the final days of January before the reopening of the Judicial Year. A professor as well, Barroso will speak at prominent events in Switzerland and universities in the United States on topics such as legal certainty in Brazil, combating misinformation on social media, climate change, democracy, and the global rise of authoritarian populism.

On January 20, in Davos, Switzerland, Barroso is scheduled to meet with Annette Kroeber-Riel, Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Europe at Google. On January 21, he will participate as a speaker in the World Economic Forum session on Brazil, where he is expected to address environmental issues. On January 22, he will deliver a lecture at Casa Brasil on legal certainty. On the same day, he will speak at the forum’s session on digital security.

On January 23, the STF President will attend a LIDE Group event in Zurich, also in Switzerland, where he will discuss the topic, “Legal and Institutional Vision of Brazil and Its Impact on the Country’s Life.”

From there, Barroso begins a tour of three of the most prestigious universities in the United States. On January 27, at Yale University, he will provide an overview of the workings of the Brazilian judiciary, alongside other professors and jurists. On January 28, he will visit the renowned Princeton University to discuss the role of Supreme Courts in democracies and their institutional resistance to authoritarian populism.

The tour of U.S. academic institutions concludes at the Harvard Kennedy School, where Barroso is an academic collaborator, with a lecture on the role of Brazil's Supreme Court.