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Mariana Almeida Kato

Teaching Associate, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Mariana Almeida Kato is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham. Since June 2024, she is also an associate editor of the world-leading blog in Comparative Constitutional Law, the IACL blog. Previously, she worked as a Teaching & Research Assistant at the Université Grenoble Alpes and the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). Her thesis ("Transparency on Constitutional Courts, a Comparative Essay") was awarded the 2022 Dalloz Thesis Prize and was published in 2023. She has various publications on Public Law, Human Rights and Comparative Law, primarily related to transparency, access to information, public participation.

In her doctoral research, she studied judicial transparency in the context of the French Constitutional Council, the Brazilian Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court. To address this subject, beyond the study of legal norms related to transparency, she focused her attention on institutional and personal habits and practices related to transparency (such as interviews and social media communications) and that have an impact on the life of a jurisdiction. She argued that even if the meaning and scope of transparency are deeply embedded in each legal culture, transparency both as a practice and as a discourse is at the core of a broader phenomenon related to how judicial legitimacy is currently understood and the importance of public opinion. Based on these findings, she made pragmatic recommendations to enhance transparency in the courts studied - such as the adoption of an Ethics Code.

In more recent work, she has explored other themes regarding the dynamic role of Constitutional Courts and Human Rights Courts in the contemporary political context, or the theoretical dimensions of comparative constitutional law research.

Mariana also holds a PhD from the the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), where she completed her fully-funded doctoral thesis in Comparative Constitutional Law, a Master of Laws in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), a Master of Laws in Public Law from Université Paris V Descartes (France), and a Bachelor in Law, with a major in Public Law, from Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil).

In addition to her academic work, Mariana is qualified lawyer at the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/PR), at the Directior of Internationalisation of its Freedom of Religion Committee. She trained at several law firms in Brazil, mostly working with on private-public partnerships, concessions of public service, economic regulation and public procurement in the context of infrastructure projects. Drawing from this practical experience, she has published several papers in leading Brazilian journals on these topics, such as the Revista Brasileira de Direito Administrativo - RDA and the Revista De Direito Publico Da Economia - RDPE.

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Mariana teaches Public Law, EU Law, European Convention on Human Rights, and Civil Law - A Comparative Introduction to UG students. She also teaches seminars on The EU as a Global Actor and on… read more

Selected Publications

  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2023. La transparence de la justice constitutionnelle : une étude de droit comparé (France, Brésil, États-Unis) 1. Dalloz.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2025. Methodologies of Comparative Constitutional Law. In: R GROTE, F LACHENMANN and R WOLFRUM, eds., Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, S BADRAN, A DANET and C DERAEDT, eds., 2024. Mode et Droit Mare&Martin.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2024. Book review: 'Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights: Applications of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 13, written by Michael Reiertse’ ECHR Law Review. 5(4), 513-517

Mariana teaches Public Law, EU Law, European Convention on Human Rights, and Civil Law - A Comparative Introduction to UG students. She also teaches seminars on The EU as a Global Actor and on Current Issues in International Human Rights Law on the LLM programs, and Research Methods for PGR students. In the past, throughout her academic career in various institutions, she has also taught International Relations, French Constitutional Law, French Administrative Law, and Brazilian Constitutional Law.

  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2025. Methodologies of Comparative Constitutional Law. In: R GROTE, F LACHENMANN and R WOLFRUM, eds., Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
  • MARIANA ALMEIDA KATO, 2025. Radicalismes politiques et juridiques au Brésil : les rapports de forces entre le Président de la République et le Tribunal fédéral suprême. In: VINCENT JEANNE, AYMAN EL DAIROUTY, ROMAIN BRAILLET and JULIEN CHARREIRE, eds., Droit et radicalités Mare & Martin. 77-92
  • MARIANA ALMEIDA KATO, 2025. The Influence of the United States Supreme Court on the Congress. In: M. FATIN-ROUGE STÉFANINI, N. DANELCIUC-COLODROVSCHI and C. GEYNET-DUSSAUZE, eds., Repenser l'initiative législative dans et en dehors du Parlement : approche comparée Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille - P.U.A.M.. 372-383
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, S BADRAN, A DANET and C DERAEDT, eds., 2024. Mode et Droit Mare&Martin.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2024. Book review: 'Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights: Applications of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 13, written by Michael Reiertse’ ECHR Law Review. 5(4), 513-517
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2023. La transparence de la justice constitutionnelle : une étude de droit comparé (France, Brésil, États-Unis) 1. Dalloz.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, C DERAEDT, D JOUVE and AP SOO, eds., 2023. Science et droit Mare&Martin.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2023. Histoire et philosophie de la transparence. In: M FARTUNOVA-MICHEL, MO PEYROUX-SISSOKO and M ROTA, eds., Transparence et fonction juridictionnelle PGDJ. 15-29
  • 2023. Les leçons de la Cour suprême des Etats-. Unis sur la fragilité des droits : (obs. sous. Cour suprême U.S., Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, June 24, 2022) Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'Homme. 134, 569-585
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2023. Book review: Elina Lemaire et Thomas Perroud (dir.), Le Conseil constitutionnel à l’épreuve de la déontologie et de la transparence, Institut Francophone Justice et Démocratie, Colloques et Essais no 153, 2022, 372 p Revue française de droit constitutionnel. 135, 771-
  • 2022. Pour un statut juridique du conjoint du président de la République ? Revue française de droit constitutionnel. e01
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2021. Les juges constitutionnels français et brésilien à l’épreuve des chiffres. In: ASSOCIATION DES DOCTORANTS EN DROIT PUBLIC DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON, ed., Chiffre(s) et droit public Mare&Martin. 201-213
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2020. Transparence et justice constitutionnelle : une analyse en droit comparé France - Brésil. In: V BARBÉ, O LEVANNIER-GOUËL and S MAUCLAIR, eds., La transparence, un droit fondamental ? Editions L'Epitoge. 91-103
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2018. La communication du Tribunal fédéral suprême brésilien Annuaire International de la justice constitutionnelle. 33,
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2018. Os acordos substitutivos e o termo de ajustamento de conduta (Lei nº 7.347/1985) Revista de Direito Administrativo. 277(1), 101
  • M ALMEIDA KATO and E BOCKMANN MOREIRA, 2017. Economic Regulation and Energy Security (Notes on the Brazilian Case). In: R NAUKOWA, M PIETRAS and J MISIAGIEWICZ, eds., Energy Security in the Contemporary International Relations: Challenges, Threats, Perspectives Ydawnictwo Universytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej. 237-258
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2017. O Supremo Tribunal Federal face às câmeras. In: RM GONÇALVES, FS VEIGA and M MAGALHÃES, eds., Derecho, gobernanza e innovación: Dilemas jurídicos de la contemporaneidad en perspectiva transdisciplinar Universidade Portucalense. 55-61
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2017. A gestão do pluralismo pelo direito: existe um direito à diferença?. In: IM PORTELA, M GONCALVES and FS VEIGA, eds., Paradigmas do Direito Constitucional Atual Paradigmas do Direito Constitucional Atual. 211-221
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2015. La vie et l'œuvre de Gaston Jèze Revista da Academia Brasileira de Direito Constitucional. 7(13), 591-
  • M ALMEIDA KATO and E BOCKMANN MOREIRA, 2014. A Golden share e o poder de controle do Estado nas sociedades anônimas’. In: MC PEREIRA RIBEIRO and V KLEIN, eds., Reflexões Acerca do Direito Empresarial e a Análise Econômica do Direito GEDAI.
  • M ALMEIDA KATO and B STROBL GUIMARÃES, 2014. Arrendamentos portuários: Licitações, proteção à concorrência e o direito dos arrendatários. In: E BOCKMANN MOREIRA, ed., Portos e seus regimes jurídicos : a Lei nº 12.815/2013 e seus desafios Editora Fórum. 199-219
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2013. Os procedimentos administrativos do Sistema Brasileiro de Defesa da Concorrência (SBDC) e a natureza jurídica das decisões terminativas proferidas pelo CADE Revista de Direito Público da Economia. 44, 119-
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, 2013. Condutas Anticoncorrenciais Tuteladas por Órgãos Reguladores Revista de Direito da Concorrência. 24(2), 63-
  • M ALMEIDA KATO, A tecnologia como instrumento de transparência da justica constitucional brasileira. In: L MEZZETTI and E FERIOLI, eds., Giustizia e costituzione agli albori del XXI Bonomo. 1221-1228

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