Marco Antonio Rodrigues

Lawyer with extensive experience in public, civil, corporate and tax litigation in different offices, with practice in several courts in the country since 2004. He is also a State Attorney of Rio de Janeiro and a Tenured Professor of Civil Procedural Law at UERJ, teaching in the undergraduate, masters and doctorate courses. Professor of postgraduate courses in Law all around in Brazil.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Law from UERJ, a PhD in Procedural Law from UERJ and a Post-Doctorate in Law from the University of Coimbra. He is also trained in Negotiation at Harvard Kennedy School and holds a Master of Laws from King´s College London.

Languages:
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Education

Teaching

Professional Experience

Publications

Education

Post-PhD in Law, University of Coimbra (Portugal).

PhD in Procedural Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

Master in Public Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

Master of Laws, King´s College (London).

Trained in Negotiation, Harvard Kennedy School.

Law degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

Teaching

Tenured Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, teaching in undergraduate, master and PhD courses.
Visiting Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State School of Magistrates – EMERJ and the Federal Regional Court School of Magistrates – EMARF.

Invited professor of postgraduate courses at Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV, UCAM, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUC/RS), CESUSC, Vitória Law School and Baiana Law School.

Coordinator of the research group “Process and Technology” at the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

Professional Experience

Attorney of the State of Rio de Janeiro since 2006.

Partner at F. Torres Advogados associated with Kennedys.

Partner at Paulo Cezar Pinheiro Carneiro Advogados.

Senior Associate at Bocater Camargo Costa Silva Rodrigues Advogados

Publications

Author of books and articles, in Brazil and abroad, about Civil Procedure and Arbitration, including:

Books:

Tax Administrative and Judicial Proceedings (Juspodivm).

Inheritance Proceedings (Juspodivm – co-authored).

Appeals in Civil Procedure (Atlas).

Public Administration in civil proceedings (Atlas).

Petitum and cause of action change in civil procedure (GZ Editora).
Constitution and Public Administration: defining new parameters to legality and administrative power (GZ Editora).

Coordination of Books:

International Cooperation (Juspodivm – in co-organization).

Tax Proceedings (Juspodivm – in co-organization).

Public Administration (Juspodivm – in co-organization).

Articles:

Arbitration and exorbitant clauses in government contracts. Journal of

Arbitration and Mediation, v. 66, 2020.

Taking public policy jurisdictional control seriously. Journal of the Attorney General of the State of Amazonas, v. 40, 2019.

Access to Justice and the Role of ODR Inside and Outside Brazilian Courts. International Journal on Online Dispute Resolution, v. 6, 2019.

The possibility of granting provisional emergency relief by an absolutely incompetent court. Magazine of the Faculty of Law of Ufrgs, v. 41, 2019 (co-authored).

Tax Enforcement through the Courts in Brazil: Ideas, Tendencies and Perspectives. International Journal of Procedural Law, Vol. 9 (1), 2019 (co-authored).

Preparation of civil proceedings: advance production of evidence, preliminary investigations, pretrial discovery and pre-action protocols. Procedural Journal, v. 290, 2019 (co-authored).

Some notes on the subjects of the process. In: General theory of civil process: new paradigms ahead of CPC / 15 (GZ Editora), 2018 (co-authored).

Principle of procedural efficiency and the right to good jurisdiction. Procedural Journal, v. 275, 2018 (co-authored).

Writ of certiorari and extraordinary appeal: meetings and mismatches. Procedural Journal, v. 280, 2018 (co-authored).

The Lusitanian pre-executive extrajudicial procedure (Pepex): some lessons for the Brazilian system. Procedural Journal, v. 282, 2018 (co-authored).

Reunion of public enforcement proceedings: an interpretation based upon fundamental rules of civil procedure. In: Tax Proceedings (Juspodivm), 2017.

Interim measures as a technique for judicial action. Procedural Journal, v. 271, 2017 (co-authored).
The new Civil Procedural Rules and the writ of mandamus: impacts on res judicata and the appeals system. In: Extravagant Procedural Legislation (Juspodivm), 2016.

Rejection of pleadings in the new Civil Procedure Rules. In: Procedure: from pleadings to the sentence – in the light of the new Civil Procedure Rules. (Juruá), 2015.

Appeals against the decision that grants legal aid to a party after the new Civil Procedure Rules. In: Public Defender’s Office. (Juspodivm), 2015.

The reform of the evidential law in the Brazilian civil procedure – fourth part. Procedural Journal, v. 243, 2015 (co-authored).

Arbitration and the Public Administration. Electronic Journal of Procedural Law, v. 14, p. 388, 2014 (co-authored).

Social security benefits, preliminary injunctions and restitution. Electronic Journal of Procedural Law, v. 14, 2014 (co-authored).

Review of the book Superior Courts and Supreme Courts: from Control to Interpretation, from Jurisprudence to Precedent, by Daniel Mitidiero. Electronic Journal of Procedural Law, v. XIII, 2014.

Procedure effectiveness and burden of proof distribution. Electronic Journal of Procedural Law, v. XII, 2013.

The inapplicability of “causa madura” theory to preliminary rejection judgements of repetitive cases. Dialectic Journal of Procedural Law, v. 124, 2013.

The decision to suspend repetitive appeals due to an appeal representing controversy. Recourse possibilities and protection in the face of risk of damage. Brazilian Journal of Procedural Law, v. 79, 2012.

“Embargos Infringentes” and the new Civil Procedure Rules: maintenance or extinction?. Electronic Journal of Procedural Law, v. X, 2012 (co-authored).

Process, procedure and summons to Public Administration. Dialectic Journal of Procedural Law, v. 95, 2011.

Neoconstitutionalism and Administrative Legality: Administrative Juridicity and its Relationship with Fundamental Rights. Law Journal of the Attorney General of the State of Rio de Janeiro, v. 63, 2008.

Notes on the burden of proof distribution and the theory of dynamic burden of proof. Journal of the Faculty of Law Candido Mendes, v. 12, 2007.