Areas of expertise
Languages
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Portuguese
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English
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French
Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza
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Experience
His areas of practice include intellectual property, information technology law, and contracts, with a focus on data protection and digital business issues.
He was involved in the creation and coordination of one of the first research centers on Law and Internet in Brazil. He participated in the coordination of the team of researchers that helped the Department of Justice in the public consultation for the creation of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights and the General Law of Data Protection. He is currently a partner in the Technology and Intellectual Property practice area at Rennó Penteado Sampaio Advogados. He is also the Director of the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS) and a professor at UERJ and PUC-Rio. Member of the Copyright Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro State Chapter. Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa Law School (Canada) and affiliated researcher of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (USA). Columnist on Law and Internet topics at UOL.
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Education
PhD and Master’s in civil law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Bachelor’s Degree in law from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO)
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Publications
AFFONSO SOUZA, Carlos; CÉSAR DE OLIVEIRA, CAIO ; PERRONE, CHRISTIAN ; CARNEIRO, GIOVANA . From privacy to data protection: the road ahead for the Inter-American System of human rights. The International Journal of Human Rights , v. 25, p. 1-31, 2020.
SOUZA, Carlos Affonso; VIOLA, M. ; PADRAO, V. Initial considerations on the legitimate interests of the controller in the General Law on Personal Data Protection. DIREITO PÚBLICO (PORTO ALEGRE), v. 90, p. 109-131, 2019.
MAGANHOTO DONEDA, DANILO CESAR ; SCHERTEL MENDES, LAURA ; PEREIRA DE SOUZA, CARLOS AFFONSO ; NUNO MARTIN BECERRA GOMES DE ANDRADE, NORBERTO. Initial considerations on artificial intelligence, ethics, and personal autonomy. PENSAR – REVISTA DE CIÊNCIAS JURÍDICAS, v. 23, p. 1-17, 2018.
SOUZA, Carlos Affonso; SILVA, P. The new European regulation and the centrality of copyright. Politics (Impresso) , v. 1, p. 13-17, 2018.
AFFONSO SOUZA, Carlos; Steibel, Fabro ; LEMOS, RONALDO . Notes on the creation and impacts of Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights. The Theory and Practice of Legislation , v. 5, p. 73-94, 2017.
SOUZA, Carlos Affonso Pereira de; SILVA JUNIOR, Ronaldo Lemos da. Legal Aspects of the Sharing Economy: Social Function and Trust Protection. Direito da Cidade, v. 8, p. 1757-1777, 2016.
SOUZA, Carlos Affonso Pereira de. The public domain and the social function of copyright. Liinc em Revista , v. 07, p. 664-700, 2011.