Teaching staff
Master's and Doctoral Program in Law
Research line 1:
Fundamental Civil Rights
Cláudia Cinara Locateli
claudia.locateli@unoesc.edu.br
Doutora em Direito pela Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (Unoesc/2023). Estágio Pós-Doutoral em Ciências Humanas pela Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS/2025).Temas de Pesquisa: Direitos Fundamentais e Vulnerabilidades nas Relações Familiares, Sucessórias e na Proteção Jurídica de Crianças e Adolescentes; Direito Internacional e Sistemas Internacionais de Proteção aos Direitos Humanos.
Deise Helena Krantz Lora
deise.lora@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Criminal Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2018). Research topics: Criminology. Violence. Criminal procedure. Limits to State Power. Jurisdictional Function and International Protection of Human Rights.
Leticia de Campos Velho Martel
leticia.martel@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Public Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ-2010). Post-doctoral internship in Fundamental Rights at PUC-RS (2013-2015). Research topics: Fundamental Rights. Bioethics. Biodirectory.
Marco Aurelio Rodrigues da Cunha e Cruz
marco.cruz@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Law from the University of Seville (US/2008). Research topics: Surveillance. Consumer Society. Private autonomy. Personality Rights. Privacy. Personal Data. Disinformation.
Matheus Felipe de Castro
matheusfelipedecastro@gmail.com
PhD in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/2009). Post-Doctoral Internship at the University of Brasília (UNB/2018). Research Themes: Criminal Procedure Law. Free Conviction. Theory of Evidence. Evidence valuation systems. Judicial Psychology with a focus on technical decision-makers (judges) and lay decision-makers (jurors in the Jury Court).
Orides Mezzaroba
oridesmezza@gmail.com
PhD in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/2000). Post-Doctoral Internship at the University of Coimbra (Portugal/2008). Post-Doctoral Internship at the Nove de Julho University in São Paulo (UNINOVE/2015).
(Collaborating Professor).
Paulo Junior Trindade dos Santos
pjtrindades@hotmail.com
PhD in Law from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS/2018). Post-Doctoral Internship at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS/ 2018) and the University of Western Santa Catarina (Unoesc/2019). Research Themes: Public Law with emphasis on "General Theory of the State and Constitutional Law" and Civil Procedural Law. Private Law: emphasis on Civil Law and its Contemporaneity. Constitutionalization of Law. Philosophy of Law. Law and Technology.
Riva Sobrado de Freitas
rivafreit@gmail.com
PhD in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP/2003). Post-Doctoral Internship at the University of Coimbra (Portugal/2007). Research topics: Private decision-making autonomy. Identity and Free Formation of Personality. Gender Equality. Hate Speech.
Wilson Antonio Steinmetz
wilson.steinmetz@gmail.com
PhD in Law from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR/2003). Research Themes: Fundamental Rights and Private Law. Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Jurisdiction. Fundamental Rights and the Environment. Theory of Principles. Principle of Proportionality. Constitutional Theory of the State.
Research line 2:
Fundamental Social Rights
Beatriz Cardoso Montanhana
beatriz.cardoso@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Labor Law from the University of São Paulo (2011). Research topics: Decent Work. Protection against automation. Workers' health. Equality, Social Protection and Social Rights.
Carlos Luiz Strapazzon
strapazzon.carlos.luiz@gmail.com
PhD in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/2011), Post-doctoral internship in Fundamental Rights from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS2012/2014). Research topics: Social Security. Social Security Budget. Social Security Reform. Unified Health System. Rights and Assistance Policies. Sustainable Development Goals.
Cristhian Magnus De Marco
cristhian.demarco@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS/2012). Post-doctoral internship at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/2017). Research topics: Theory of Fundamental Rights. Fundamental Right to a Sustainable City. Right to Housing. Sustainable Development Goals.
Robison Tramontina
robison.tramontina@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS/2011). Post-Doctoral Internship at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain/2017). Research topics: Theories of Justice. Distributive Justice and Fundamental Rights. Philosophy of Social Security. Philosophical Foundations of the World of Work. Political Obligations.
Thais Janaina Wenczenovicz
t.wencze@terra.com.br
Post-Doctorate in Human and Social Sciences CNPq/UFRGS AND CAPES/ UNIOESTE. PhD in Iberian and American Societies/PUCRS; Master's Degree in Legal Culture: Security, Justice and Law, Universitat de Girona, UDG, Spain. Research topics: Human Rights and Justice in Latin America. Fundamental Rights and Interculturalism. Legal Pluralism. Epistemologies of the South and Legal Culture.
Thiago Santos Rocha
thiago.rocha@unoesc.edu.br
PhD in Law from the University of Oviedo (Spain), co-supervised with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2023). Research topics: Public Social Protection Policies. Fundamental Rights and Organizations. Fundamental Rights and New Technologies. Anti-discrimination law. Comparative Constitutional Law. Constitutionality Control.
