Plauto Cardoso is a writer, lawyer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Public Law, especially in the areas of Constitutional Law, Law & Technology (Public Administration, Digitalisation, Human Rights and Governance), and Cultural Legal Studies (Law, Literature & Cinema; Law, Justice & politics).

 

He greatly enjoys working in multicultural environments. In fact, he works as a lecturer and researcher at renowned institutions in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico).

 

Doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina,  he holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) in Litigation - New Challenges of Litigation - from Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-Rio), and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex (US), England. He is a Specialist in Judicial Sciences from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and a specialist in Linguistics from the University of Brasília (UnB). He holds a law degree (LLB) from Cândido Mendes University Rio de Janeiro (UCAM), as well as a Full double degree in Teaching “Licenciatura em Letras” and BA in English Language and English and American Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 

He is the author of four books and has produced several articles, both independently and co-authored. He has received sixteen national and international awards and distinctions in the fields of law, socio-legal research, education, and culture.

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He has a strong affinity for technology, public management and human rights and has a great empirical interest on how governments and their agencies use technology to attempt to deliver fundamental public services, especially in connection to Administrative Digital Law, the use of ADS systems in public decision making, Open Government, Open State and Public Management. 

 

In this respect, he is a guest lecturer at the National University Lomas De Zamora (UNLZ), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches the module “Administrative Digital Law: open government, open State and public management in the UN 2030 Goals” in the Postgraduate studies in Administrative Procedural Law. In Argentina, he also teaches the modules “The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the International and Comparative Spheres” and “The Constitutional Dimension of The Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights” at the Postgraduate Studies in Constitutional Justice and Human Rights run by the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy, in Buenos Aries Campus, Argentina. He is a member and visiting lecturer of the “Information and Communication Technologies, State and Public Management Observatory” of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.

 

As a legal social scientist, law makes little sense to him when isolated from societal affairs. Within this line of research, in Brazil, he teaches the modules “From hermeneutic challenges to artificial intelligence: major issues and structural paradigms of the judiciary through the lens of the social sciences, literature, and philosophy of law” and “Socio-legal Research Methodology” at the National Law School for the Training and Improvement of Judges (ENFAM) of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He also teaches “Ethics, Morals, and Language in Institutional Practices” at the Postgraduate programme in Compliance, Ethics, and Social Governance of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC/Minas). He is also a researcher for the Otávio Frias Filho Chair of Communication, Democracy, and Diversity Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP).

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In Argentina, among other institutions, he is also a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) where he collaborates with the Catedra Bercholc of Theory of State as an Assistant Lecturer in the modules Justice and Politics: the Supreme Court and political power through constitutional control; Public Opinion, Media, and Democracy; New Legal and Political Challenges for the State and Law and Politics through Film.  He is also a researcher at UBA on the Ubacyt project on the implementation of public hearings in the Supreme Courts, Constitutional Courts, and Supreme Constitutional Courts of Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil.

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He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Contemporary Public Law (RDPC), of the Journal of Public Administration Law (REDAP), of the Argentinean Journal of Constitutional Justice, and of the Journal of the Judiciary School of Piauí. Plauto acts as an external expert evaluator for the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) research projects evaluation committee. He is also the co-editor-in-chief and columnist for the Journal of Administrative Law (JDA).

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He is the Executive Director of the Brazilian Institute of Resolvent Advocacy (IBAR), the Director of the Institute for Integration Law of the Argentine Association of Constitutional Justice (AAJC), and the Director of the Plauto Cardoso Institute for Teaching and Research (IPC). 

 

He is the Outside General Counsel for the Brazilian Association of Cash-in-Transit Companies (ABTV) and coordinates the Plauto Cardoso Law Firm' Strategic Litigation department, acting mainly on Supreme Court cases. Planning and holding congresses and seminars are also part of his annual activities.

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Plauto is happy to be part of the “Coleção Mineiriana”, which houses the most prestigious literary works produced in a city and state of great writers and poets. It is a dream come true for a writer who is not from Minas Gerais but who is inspired by and uses the charming capital of Minas Gerais as the setting or even as the protagonist of his literary adventures.​

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Some of his affiliations:

 

• Honorary Member of the Association of Magistrates of Piauí (AMAPI) - Judge Helvídio Clementino de Aguiar medal.

• Member of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies / Parliamentary Researchers Network (REDIPAL).

• Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Commission;  Compliance and Governance Commission; Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Commissions of the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers (IAB).

• Member of the Argentine Association of Constitutional Justice (AAJC).

• Member of the Constitutional Justice Observatory of the Universidad del Este (University of the East), Province of La Plata, Argentina.

• Member of the Centre for Administrative Law Studies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CEDAB).

• Member of the Administrative Law Commission of the IAB.

• Member of the Institute of Administrative Law of Rio de Janeiro (IDARJ)

• Member of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Seminar on Contemporary Administrative Law (SDAC).

• Member of the Brazilian Labour Relations Group (GRTB).

• Member of the Human Rights Commission of the OAB/MG (Brazilian Bar Association/state of Minas Gerais).

• Member of the Bioethics and Biolaw Commission of the OAB/MG (Brazilian Bar Association/state of Minas Gerais).

• Member of the University of Sussex Alumni Association.