Vitor Martins Dias
Research Fellow

Vitor Dias holds an LL.M. degree (2011) from São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas, which provided him a scholarship while he was doing this degree. His master thesis was a research about public banks and economic development in Brazil. In addition, he has authored book chapters published in Portuguese about Brazilian courts, and about social and economic rights. Dias is also part of the Brazilian team of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies project, which is developed in partnership between Harvard Law School and São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Currently, Dias is an LL.M. candidate at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, having been recently admitted to the school's LL.M. thesis program; he is going to write a master thesis about the globalization of legal education in Brazil. His research focuses on law and development, law and society, law and globalization, legal professions, and legal education. As a Research Fellow at the Center on the Global Legal Profession, Dias is researching about how the globalization has changed legal professions and legal education in different developing and developed countries.