JOÃO CARLOS BANHOS VELLOSO SAUS, Quadra 6, Bloco K, 8th floor, Ed. Belvedere, 70.070-915, Brasília, DF, Brazil [email protected] Tel.: +55 61 3226-9300
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, United States LL.M. (2019).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Advocacia Velloso, Brasília/DF, Brazil. 2018-present; Activities: Legal practice before the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF), the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça & Associados, Brasília/DF 2015- 2017; Activities: Legal practice before the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF), the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Supreme Federal Court, Justice Luis Roberto Barroso’s Chambers Brasilia/DF 2013-2014; Activities: Legal research; legal drafting.
Luís Roberto Barroso & Associados, Brasília/DF 2012-2013; Activities: Legal research; legal drafting.
PUBLICATIONS
JOAO CARLOS BANHOS VELLOSO & MATEUS ROCHA TOMAZ, ENSAIOS INAUGURAIS DE DIREITO PÚBLICO [ESSAYS ON PUBLIC LAW] (Numa Editora, 2017).
João Carlos Banhos Velloso, A Regulação do Marco Civil [Cyber Regulation in the Brazilian Civil Framework of the Internet], Caderno Direito & Justiça [Law and Justice Review] (Correio Braziliense, 2014).
João Carlos Banhos Velloso, Obama terá dificuldade para nomear juiz para a Suprema Corte [The Obama’s Struggle for Appoint and Confirm a New Supreme Court Justice], Consultor Jurídico Law Review, 2015.
João Carlos Banhos Velloso, Muita jurisdição, nenhuma jurisdição: discricionariedade judicial e precedentes vinculantes na Suprema Corte norte-americana [Overbroad Jurisdiction, No Jurisdiction: judicial discritionarity and binding precedentes in the United States Supreme Court] (University Center of Brasilia Institutional Repository, 2015).
João Carlos Banhos Velloso, Towards a Binding Constitutional Jurisprudence: The Development of a Culture of Precedents in Brazil, in 101 JOAO CARLOS BANHOS VELLOSO & MATEUS ROCHA TOMAZ, ESSAYS ON PUBLIC LAW (Numa, 2019).
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Brasilia Student Law Review 2019-present;
Member of the Brazilian Institute of Electoral Law (IBRADE) 2017-present;
Member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association – Federal District Chapter (OAB/DF) 03/2016- 2018;
Member of the Brazilian Center for Constitutional Studies (CBEC). 05/2016- present
CONFERENCES/PANELS/
Conference at the University of Brasilia (UNB): “A Opinião Pública e o Supremo Tribunal Federal” [The Supreme Court and Public Opinion], 2016.
Panel at the Brazilian Center for Constitutional Studies (CBEC): “O Aborto sob uma Perspectiva Comparada [Abortion in a Comparative Perspective]”, 2016.
Conference at the University of Brasilia (UNB): “Neoconstitucionalismo: o fim ou o triunfo do Estado de Direito? [Neoconstitutionalism: the end or the triumph of the Rule of Law?]”, 2015.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Portuguese (native); English (fluent); Spanish (proficient reading)