Oscar Vilhena Vieira is the Dean of the School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Development. He holds a B.A. in law from the Catholic University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York; an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo, and completed his post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He contributes to several newspapers, including Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, where part of this piece was originally published.|Oscar Vilhena Vieira is the Dean of the School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Development. He holds a B.A. in law from the Catholic University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York; an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo, and completed his post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He contributes to several newspapers, including Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, where part of this piece was originally published.|Oscar Vilhena Vieira is the Dean of the School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Development. He holds a B.A. in law from the Catholic University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York; an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo, and completed his post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He contributes to several newspapers, including Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, where part of this piece was originally published.|Oscar Vilhena Vieira is the Dean of the School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Development. He holds a B.A. in law from the Catholic University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York; an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo, and completed his post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He contributes to several newspapers, including Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, where part of this piece was originally published.