Directory of Scholars

ROMULO SILVEIRA DA ROCHA SAMPAIO

LL.B.; LL.M.; S.J.D;
PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER

email romulo.sampaio@fgv.br

Primary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Climate change law
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Energy law
  • Enforcement & compliance issues

Secondary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Environmental politics
  • Financial & investment issues
  • Human rights & the environment
  • International environmental law
  • Municipal & land use planning
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation
  • Water law

Selected Publications

  • Seeing the Forest for the Treaties - Evolving Debates on Forest and Forestry Project Activities 10 Years After the Kyoto Protocol, Fordham International Law Journal, 2007.
  • "Biofuels and International Carbon Markets", in Pace 30th Anniversary, White Plains, 2007.
  • Prazo de Vigência das Normas Fixadas nos Convênios Coletivos - Gênesis, Revista de Direito do Trabalho, Curitiba, v. 135, p. 395-398, 2004.