SUBJECT OF THE ESSAY

The subject of the essays opting for the “Thirteenth José María Cervelló Business Law Prize” is: “Article 14 of the Spanish Constitution, equality and good governance”

Length, Format and Presentation of the Essay

• All essays must be original, unpublished works written in Spanish or English. The length is a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 35 pages, printed on one side only, with 1.5 spacing and using Times New Roman or similar font, size 12.
• Essays may be sent by e-mail to the following address: carmen.cicuendez@ie.edu or a hard copy may be submitted to the place and for the attention of the person indicated below:

FAO Carlos de la Pedraja García-Cosío
IE Law School
C/ María de Molina, 11
28006 MADRID

Carmen Cicuéndez, as secretary of the Cervelló Chair, and Carlos de la Pedraja, as secretary of the Jury, shall at all times maintain the anonymity of the authors of the essays submitted. Once the Jury’s decision has been given, they will inform the Jury of the identity of the winner and of the other participants.

• If a hard copy of the work is presented.
– Five copies must be delivered.
– The originals should be headed with the title of the work and a pen name of the author. A separate closed envelope, solely including the title of the work and the pen name of the author on the outside, will have the following information enclosed: name, address, contact telephone numbers and a brief CV of the author, and a signed statement to certify that the work is unpublished, that it has not been entered into any other pending competitions and that there is no commitment in relation to the rights of such work.
– The work should be sent by certified mail or hand delivered.
– All work that is sent by mail before the entry closing date will be accepted. If the
work is hand delivered, the person delivering the work will be given proof of delivery.

• If the documents are sent by e-mail:
– A file in PDF format with the original work headed with the title of the document and the pen name of the author should be sent.
– In a separate PDF document, only the title of the document and the pen name of the author should be sent. The following information on the author should also be included: name, address, contact telephone numbers and a brief CV, as well as a signed and scanned declaration stating that the work has not previously been published, that it has not been entered into any other pending competitions and that there is no commitment in relation to the rights of such work.
– All work that is sent via email before the entry closing date will be accepted.

ENTRY CLOSING DATE AND DECISION

• The last day to submit essays is Wednesday 11 September 2019 at 23:59 p.m. (Madid, Spain time). The award ceremony will take place in the month of October or November 2019, at IE Law School. All participants will
be invited to it with sufficient notice.
• The Panel’s decision will be final. Simply by submitting their work, participants accept unreservedly and undertake to abide fully by these rules and the final decision of the Panel.
• The prize may be declared void if, in the Panel’s opinion, the quality of the essays submitted does not reach the minimum standard required.
• IE Law School and the José María Cervelló Chair reserve the right to publish the winning entry in magazine or book format, and also to publish it in digital format on the Chair’s page on the IE Law School website.

Fundação Getulio Vargas São Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) is pleased to announce the selection process of the research grants program for PhD Students and Post–PhD in Law. The Global Fellowship Program aims to attract young academic talents interested in advancing their scholarship in Brazil. These young professional talents will have the opportunity to develop their academic research and to contribute to FGV DIREITO SP internationalization process. The program offers economic and intellectual resources to support insightful and promising young legal scholars from all over the world willing to do research in Brazil.

1. ELIGIBILITY

Applicants may be of any nationality, including Brazilian, and must have completed (or be about to complete) a Doctoral Program in Law or in another correlated area. Although desired, knowledge of Portuguese is not required.

2. APPLICATION

i. Curriculum Vitae and/or CV Lattes

ii. Recommendation Letter

iii. Research proposal and/or thesis summary – up to 5000 characters

iv. Proposed activities at FGV DIREITO SP (item 3)

v. Period of the visit (first or second Semester)

Please send the documents listed above to cri.direitosp@fgv.br (Reference: Global Fellowship– Candidate’s name) Deadline: September 14th, 2018

3. Scope of research and activities at FGV Direito SP

Candidates should prepare the research proposal and the specific activities to be undertaken at FGV Direito SP considering the following possibilities: a) original research on a topic in Brazilian law. b) comparison of Brazilian developments with those in another country, done in collaboration with FGV scholars or in accordance with the FGV research agenda. c) a research project unrelated to Brazil but of interest to scholars in Brazil

4. RECRUITMENT

Candidates approved in the selection process can start its activities in February or August 2019, depending on the period for which he/she has been selected. The applicant must submit, on time pre-established, to FGV DIREITO SP’s International Affairs Coordinator, all documents required for his/her hiring. The foreign candidates shall be responsible for obtaining visas and permits required for residency in Brazil. Approved candidates in the selection process will have to stay at FGV DIREITO SP, and cannot be absent during the fellowship period without the consent of Program’s Coordinator.

5. SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT (PER SEMESTER)

Six months’ scholarship for PhD Students: R$ 36.000,00, paid in 6 (six) installments of R$ 6.000,00. Six months’ scholarship for Post-PhD: R$ 45.000,00, paid in 6 (six) installments of R$ 7.500,00.

6. FELLOWSHIP DURATION

Period 1 – February to June 2019 Period 2 – August to December 2019 The applicants must specify the period of their choice. The scholarship duration may be exceptionally extended for additional six months if there is mutual interest of the FGV Direito SP and the fellow.

7. FELLOW AT FGV DIREITO SP ACTIVITIES

Fellows are expected to advance their scholarship, engage in the intellectual life of FGV DIREITO SP, and develop their professorial skills, by joining our Legal Education Center, and participate in direct class activities, supervised by senior members of the faculty. Fellows will also be welcome to participate in researcher’s groups at FGV DIREITO SP, and to conduct seminars, in English, to FGV DIREITO SP students.

Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School – FGV DIREITO RIO is pleased to announce the third edition of the Fellows in Rio program. The goal of the program is to support a select group of highly qualified doctoral and post-doctoral scholars working in the area related to the activities of the Masters in Law of Regulation of FGV DIREITO RIO. The program, which will offer two vacancies in 2018, seeks to offer economic and intellectual resources to support insightful and promising young legal scholars all over the world.
The application deadline for Fellows in Rio 2018 is July 06, 2018.

1. SELECTION PROCESS

The selection process will follow two stages:

(a) First Stage: Evaluation of documents
i. Curriculum Vitae and/or CV Lattes
ii. Research proposal and/or summary of thesis (maximum 5,000 characters)
iii. List of the proposed activities in FGV Direito Rio (see Item 7 and 8)

(b) Second Stage: Interview
i. Analysis of reference letter
ii. Online or face-to-face interview
FGV Direito Rio will release the final results of the selective process by July 15, 2018.

2. ELIGIBILITY

Applicants may be of any nationality, including Brazilian and should be currently pursuing or have recently completed a doctoral degree in law or a cognate discipline such as history, economics, or political science.

3. APPLICATION

Documents to be submitted:
– Curriculum Vitae and/or CV Lattes
– Research proposal and/or summary of thesis – maximum 5000 characters
– List of the proposed activities at FGV Direito Rio
– Indication of the desired period of the fellowship
To the institutional e-mail cri.direitorio@fgv.br (Subject line “Fellows in Rio – candidate’s name”).
Application deadline: July 06, 2018

4. RECRUITMENT

The 2 (two) candidates approved in the selection process will begin their activities in August
2018.
Selected candidates are expected to submit to the Human Resources Department of FGV DIREITO RIO all documents required for the fellowship agreement. Please note that FGV DIREITO RIO will provide assistance and supporting documentation but non-Brazilian candidates will be ultimately responsible for obtaining the appropriate visa and all necessary authorization for living and working in Brazil.
Selected candidates are expected to be at FGV DIREITO RIO during the period of his/her fellowship. Any substantial absences should be agreed with the program’s coordinator.

5. FELLOWSHIP AMOUNT (PER SEMESTER)

Fellowship for doctoral candidates: R$ 36.000*, paid in six installments of R$ 6.000. The first installment will be disbursed in advance to cover moving and settlement expenses.
Fellowship for doctors: R$ 45.000**, paid in six installments of R$ 7.500. The first installment will be disbursed in advance to cover moving and settlement expenses.
*At the currency rate of Tuesday, 05th of July 2018, R$ 36,000 correspond to approx. US$ 9,500
** At the currency rate of Tuesday, 05th of July 2018, R$ 45,000 correspond to approx. US$ 12,000

6. DURATION OF FELLOWSHIP

–Both Fellowships for the academic semester between the beginning/middle of August 2018 and the end of December 2018 (second semester).

7. FELLOWSHIP ACTIVITIES

This year, candidates must necessarily be associated to the activities of the LLM in Regulatory Law, being one of the researchers selected for the Project “Consumers an Alternative Dispute Resolution”, and the other one for the “Big Data Project for Sustainable Urban Development” presented in more detail in the last item of this call.
Fellows shall elaborate a Work Plan describing the activities he/she expects to develop throughout the semester and their respective deadlines.
Fellows will participate and present their work in faculty research seminar series and workshops developed by FGV DIREITO RIO.
In addition, Fellows will also have the opportunity to: (i) deliver lectures (undergraduate or graduate levels) on a subject of their interest; (ii) promote professional coaching for students of the undergraduate and masters programs; (iii) orient, tutor or participate in the evaluation of Final Projects of undergraduate students, as well as help the mediation between academic institutions and the market; (iv) join ongoing research projects or engage in collaborative research with FGV DIREITO RIO professors; (v) offer short (10h) or long (30h-60h) term courses in English to FGV DIREITO RIO students; (vi) cooperate in the activities of the LLM in Regulatory Law.

8. PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS

CONSUMER LAW PROJECT

Ensuring the population’s access to justice requires that the jurisdiction be directed to make decisions based on fairness and that they be rendered in a reasonable time. A great number of repetitive demands are presented to the Judiciary of Brazil, which generates a process overflow. There are more processes today than judges can appreciate. The focus of the research is to study alternative mechanisms of conflict resolution in litigation involving consumer relations with a focus on efficiency analysis. The issue of conflicts arising from consumer relations was chosen because they represent, quantitatively, one of the main issues that are brought to Brazilian magistrates.

PROJECT BIG DATA FOR URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Project Big Data for Urban Sustainable Development is a replicable and scalable pilot project on big data governance in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil), Miraflores (Peru), Montevideo (Uruguai), Quito (Ecuador) and Xalapa (Mexico). The project will build the data governance fundamentals required for massive data analysis, test monitoring and forecasting systems such as mobility and climate change, and develop estimates of the results and return on investments made to transform cities into smart cities.
Submit an application if you:
– are interested in spending 6 – 12 months working in the IDB project “Big Data for Urban Sustainable Development” in the field of climate protection and climate-related resource conservation within the participant cities;
– are developing research centered in solutions to climate change focused on local government and big data analytic;
– are familiar with data analytic in the public sector;
You will have the opportunity to have contact with ground team in five cities in Latina America and develop strategies and solutions for climate change using big data analytic;
We expect the fellow to develop innovative solutions to address climate change issues within local governments using big data analytic.

São Paulo School of Law of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV DIREITO SP) believes in an enabling system of preparation of new bachelors of law, which is different from the systems traditionally observed in other Brazilian law schools, public or private.
To form this new kind of law professional, the project envisioned by FGV DIREITO SP had to be, by definition, innovative and global. As a result, more than restructuring the current law teaching system, FGV DIREITO SP also seeks to consolidate itself as a new alternative to the traditional curriculum.
For this reason, FGV DIREITO SP has created the Global Law Program, which is taught in English in order to stimulate our exchange student agreements. This program not only attracts a larger number of foreign students and professors, but also increases our globalized experience.
Within the Global Law Program, FGV DIREITO SP offers a series of short-term courses for foreign and Brazilian students regarding contemporary legal topics taught by foreign professors from the most prestigious law schools.
FGV DIREITO SP’s Visiting Professor Program is based on short-term courses without any fixed standard; where the visiting professor has complete freedom on how he will conduct the class.
The course is one week (15 hours/3 hours per day) long and happens from Monday to Friday from 5pm to 8pm. Additionally, we require the visiting professors to stay 05 extra hours during the week in order to develop other activities besides the course. We have an office reserved for the visiting professor with a phone line and a computer with internet access.
In the end of the course we ask the professors to do an evaluation with the students based on the course. The evaluation can be an exam on the last day of the course or an essay or paper to be delivered by the students after the completion of the course.

SHORT TERM COURSE PROPOSAL

As part of FGV DIREITO SP vision, we are always looking for new short term courses taught by professors from our partner Law Schools to offer to our students.
If any of your professors are interested in teaching a short term course in the FGV DIREITO SP’s Visiting Professor Program, please ask him/her to submit a short summary of the course, the objectives and methodology.
The course proposal will be analyzed by the FGV DIREITO SP Board and, once approved, the professor will be informed. After receipt of the notice, the professor has to prepare the course syllabus.

SYLLABUS

The Course Syllabus should include the following information:
1. Résumé of the professor including previous education/professional experience
2. Course description and objectives
3. Methodology
4. Evaluation Criteria and System
5. List of Required Course Materials
6. Recommended Readings

ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIALS

All professors will also be contacted by the International Affairs Office requesting any course materials that will be needed during the course. Any material the professor wishes to hand out to the students should first be sent to the International Affairs Office – cri.direitosp@fgv.br.

COURSE SCHEDULING

The courses will happen during the Academic year 2019, in the following period:
Spring Semester 2019 – First week of March to end of May
Fall Semester 2019 – First week of August to beginning of November

FGV DIREITO SP will be responsible for the following items during your stay here.

• Airline ticket (from your home town to and from São Paulo) – Economy Class;
  We ask the visiting professor to send us the date, time and closest city so we can try to accommodate your request. Once the flight is booked we won’t be able to make any changes to it.
• Hotel Accommodation (from a list that will be sent to the professor to choose)
  7 nights of accommodation. We ask the visiting professor to choose 3 options of Hotels. Therefore, we can have options in case the hotel chosen is fully booked.
• Meals (breakfast and lunch)
  The meals (lunch) will be covered by FGV DIREITO SP, only if done at FGV DIREITO SP. Meals done outside of FGV DIREITO SP won’t be covered by FGV DIREITO SP.
• Remuneration
  FGV DIREITO SP will pay you the amount of US$ 2.000,00 for the visiting professor’s stay at FGV DIREITO SP (05 days-20 hours). Once the visiting professor arrives we will provide him/her with a contract that establishes the payment for his/her stay here at FGV DIREITO SP. That amount will be deposited into the bank account provided by the visiting professor up to 3 weeks after the end of his/her course.
• Course Scheduling
  Course will happen Monday to Friday from 5pm to 8pm.

VISA REQUIREMENTS

We will require a visa only to the citizens of countries which are mandatory to have a visa to enter the country. If you are not from one of those countries do not worry about that.
For the citizens of countries who require a visa to enter in Brazil, we need them to have a Business visa (called VITEM I or VITEM II), an invitation letter will be issued so you can present it in the consulate. Once you receive your visa please send a copy to cri.direitosp@fgv.br.

Items not reimbursable by FGV DIREITO SP:

•  Meals outside FGV DIREITO SP;
•  Room service;
•  Taxi (to and from the airport; hotel/FGV Direito SP/Hotel);
•  Mileage to and from the airport;
•  Parking at the airport;
•  Airline ticket Upgrade;
•  Visa fees.

We really appreciate receiving visiting professors at FGV DIREITO SP. For this reason, we would like to ensure a gratifying and enjoyable experience for them. Visiting professors are always welcome to contact us in case they need further information.

The winner of the LAWARDS embodies the power of social innovation in the legal sector

With more than 20 innovative proposals coming from all over the world, Law Schools Global League is pleased to announce the winner and finalists of the first edition of Lawards: Innovation in Law Awards.

The winner of this first edition of the LAWARDS is “LAWBOT”, a proposal created by Ugochukwu Nnaemeka, Egbuna Linda and Adebukola Fatunde from Nigeria, Africa. LAWBOT, which is currently being developed in Nigeria, embodies the essence of the LAWARDS, for it creates awareness of legal rights through an innovative platform and solves the problem of access to Justice by giving everybody the opportunity to receive sound legal advice at no cost.

LSGL initially established in the call for applications that there would be one finalist, but the evaluation committee has considered that there were two equally innovative proposals that merited to be declared finalists. The two finalists are “LAWMATE”, by Gautami Raiker from India; and “Preventing human rights violations in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects: the need for an early alarm system”, by Flavia Silva Scabin and Isabella Jagg from Brazil.

“We are truly delighted by the success of the first edition of the LAWARDS. The evaluation committee has received more than 20 applications of an excellent quality from all over the world and it has been tough to make a decision. The winners and finalists truly represent technology-based innovation in the legal sector for the common good. We look forward to collaborate with Lawbot and the finalist teams in the future and are most grateful to ONTIER for their support,” said Javier de Cendra, dean IE Law School, and Bertil Emrah Oder, dean of Koç Law School, Co-Presidents of the Law Schools Global League.

Law Schools Global League created LAWARDS with the support of Ontier, aiming to discover and promote early innovators who are disrupting the legal services industry in ways that help promote the cause of justice of underserved communities. In this first edition, the initiative has truly shown the global need for technology based solutions and the power that social innovation has in the legal sector.

Representatives of the winner and finalist groups will be invited to Mexico City for three days where they will be attending the Award Ceremony taking place during the LSGL´s Annual Conference at ITAM on the evening of July 20, 2017.

About Law Schools Global League

The Law Schools Global League is an association that brings together law schools from all over the world who share a commitment to the globalization of law in teaching, research and practice. One of the core goals of the LSGL is to engage in a debate with stakeholders in all fields of legal practice and to stimulate and facilitate international cooperation and mobility of legal practitioners.

About ONTIER

ONTIER is a global law firm, headquartered in London, with a presence in 14 countries and is currently the international firm with the largest footprint in Latin America, making Ontier the best legal partner for any company with interests in the region.

For more information about Law Schools Global League visit: https://www.lawschoolsgloballeague.com