Dr. Leticia Albuquerque

Letícia Albuquerque is a professor at the law faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is the cofounder and codirector of the Environmental Justice Observatory, a research and action group in the areas of environment, human rights, and animal rights linked to the graduate program of law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is also a coordinator of the Ecological Justice Clinic, which is a project that encourages the practice of ecological law at the law faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The objective of the Ecological Justice Clinic is to train citizens in the legal and political sphere to handle violations of social and environmental rights, giving legal advice for the filing of lawsuits in the defense of social and environmental rights and training students in legal practice. The clinic has five subareas of action: democratic participation, health and pesticides, biodiversity and specially protected spaces, animal rights, and climate litigation.

Letícia is also connected to our project Speak4Nature.

RCC Research Project: Ecological Justice and the Importance of Indigenous Territories for the Preservation of Biodiversity in the Face of a Climate Emergency

Selected Publications:

• with Adriana Biller Aparicio. “Direitos Socioambientais Na Perspectiva Da Teoria crítica: A demarcação Da Terra Indígena Guarani Morro Dos Cavalos E a recategorização Do Parque Da Serra Do Tabuleiro No Estado De Santa Catarina” [Socio-Environmental Rights from the Perspective of Critical Theory: The Demarcation of the Indigenous Land Guarani Morro Dos Cavalos and the Recategorization of the Serra Do Tabuleiro Park in the State of Santa Catarina]. Cadernos Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Direito—PPGDir./UFRGS [The Law Program Postgraduate Journal] 18, no. 1 (2023): 249–73.

• “Global Justice and the Environment: Brazilian Challenges and Issues.” In Justice and Democracy in Brazil, edited by Maria Borges and Delamar Dutra, 111–38. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.

• “Justiça Ambiental e Desenvolvimento: um diálogo possível?” [Environmental Justice and Development: A Possible Dialogue?]. In Temas em Teorias da Justiça III: o direito Internacional em debate [Themes in Justice Theories III: International Lar in Debate], edited by Charles Feldhaus, Camila Dutra Pereira, Diego Kosbiau Trevisan, Evandro Oliveira de Brito, and Wesley Felipe de Oliveira, 87–108. Guarapuava: Apolodoro Virtual Edições, 2021.

• “Constitutional Environmental Law and Animal Protection: Brazil in Regression.” In Environmental Constitutionalism: What Impact on Legal System?, edited by Jochen Sohnle, 145–60. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2019.