Event Description
A recent amendment to the Brazilian Constitution allows for the expropriation of property in which people are found to be working in “conditions analogous to slavery.” However, it remains to be seen how the amendment will affect the complex social and legal landscape in which slavery-like conditions persist.
Speaker
Leonardo Barbosa is a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and a legislative attorney for Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.
Cosponsors
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of Law and Society.