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Professor Daniel B. Lourenço, PhD

19th April 2019

is Professor of Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ where he teaches Environmental Law, Environmental Ethics, and coordinates the Centre of Environmental Ethics (UFRJ/UFF). He also teaches Law at IBMEC/RJ and at the Post-Graduation Law Program at UniFG/BA where he teaches Ethics and the Theory of Law. At UniFG he is the founder of the Centre for Animal Ethics – ANDIRA. He is a Visiting Professor at the Brazil-American Institute for Law and the Environment (BAILE) at Pace Law School and is a member of the FGV Law Program. His research and teaching interests include the history of human-animal relations, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and western environmental historiography. He received his PhD from UNESA/RJ (cum laude) in a research entitled “What is the value of nature?” He is currently in the process of completing a book based on his doctoral thesis that is published by Editora Elefante (2019). His Master of Law degree at UGF/RJ included a dissertation on the foundation of animal rights and has become a book entitled Animal Rights: Current debates and new perspectives (Fabris, 2008).