By Bradley Hayes, Coordinator of International Programs at Yale Law School
The protests that recently erupted in Brazil constitute the biggest civil upheaval since Diretas Já in 1983-1984. Yale Law School faculty and alumni are an important part of the legal discourse that the demonstrations have generated.
Yale Law School Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Robert C. Post ’77 was cited, for example, in the court order issued by a Minister on the Brazilian Supreme Court to allow protests to continue in the state of Minas Gerais. Minister Luiz Fux referred to Dean Post’s Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (Yale University Press, 2012) in his consideration of the limits on the protection of the right to free speech, particularly when, as in this case, acts of vandalism are committed.
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