9:20 – Abertura/Opening Remarks

9:30 - Dados e evidências para uma justiça centrada nas pessoas/Data and Evidence for People-Centered Justice

O que é justiça centrada nas pessoas? Como os dados de pesquisa estão orientando a justiça centrada nas pessoas na América Latina? Que tipos de pesquisa e dados são necessários?

What is people-centered justice?  How is research evidence informing people-centered justice in Latin America?  What kinds of research and data do we need?

Palestrantes/Spearkers:

Gustavo Maurino (Argentina)

Rebecca Sandefur (EUA)

Julia dos Santos Drummond (Brasil)

Moderadora/Moderator:

Daniela Gabbay (Brasil)

11:00 – Coffee-break

11:30 - Intervenções baseadas em dados na América Latina/Evidence-Based Interventions in Latin America 
Que tipos específicos de intervenções de justiça centrada nas pessoas estão sendo implementados na América Latina? Como as evidências de pesquisa estão orientando o desenho e a implementação dessas intervenções? Que novos tipos de evidência são necessários?

What specific kinds of people-centered justice interventions are being deployed in Latin America?  How is research evidence informing the design and implementation of these interventions? What new kinds of evidence do we need? 

Palestrantes/Spearkers:

Ricardo Lillo (Chile)

Sebastián Pilo (Argentina)

Cecília Asperti (Brasil)

Danieli Chiuzuli (Brasil)

Moderador/Moderator:

Matthew Burnett (EUA)

13:00 – Almoço/Lunch

14:00 - Justiça centrada nas pessoas e reforma institucional na América Latina/People-Centered Justice and Institutional Reform in Latin America

Como os conhecimentos oriundos das pesquisas sobre acesso à justiça centrado nas pessoas estão sendo utilizados para orientar reformas institucionais nos tribunais e em outras instituições formais de justiça? Que outras evidências ou perspectivas são necessárias para orientar essas reformas de forma mais eficaz?

How are insights from people-centered access to justice research being used to guide institutional reform in courts and other formal justice institutions? What else do we need to know to guide these reforms effectively?

Palestrantes/Spearkers:

Federico Chunga (Peru)

Mateo Vásquez (Colombia)

Luciana Gross Cunha (Brasil)

Moderadora/Moderator:

Lorena Espinosa (Chile)

15:30 – Coffee-break

16:00 - Acesso para quem? Justiça centrada nas pessoas e populações específicas/Whose Access? People-Centered Justice and Specific Populations

A abordagem da justiça centrada nas pessoas não pode ser compreendida como uma solução padronizada. Quais são os aprendizados emergentes e quais lacunas de conhecimento ainda persistem em relação às experiências e necessidades de populações específicas, como mulheres, crianças e povos indígenas?

People-centered justice is not one-size-fits-all.  What are we learning and what do we need to know about the experiences and needs of specific populations, such as women, children, or indigenous people?

Palestrantes/Spearkers:

Denise Dora (Brasil)

Lorena Espinosa (Chile)

Fernando Shecaira (Brasil)

Rebecca Lemos Igreja (Brasil)

Moderadora/Moderator:

Gustavo Maurino (Argentina)

BIOS DOS PALESTRANTES E MODERADORES

Matthew Burnett 

Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative, American Bar Foundation 

Matthew Burnett is Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project at Arizona State University, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the ABF, Matthew was Senior Policy Officer at Open Society Foundations (OSF), where he worked to advance access to justice and legal empowerment through research, advocacy, litigation and grantmaking in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Matthew’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, the World Bank, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. 

Federico Chunga 

Researcher, Justice Studies Center of the Americas 

Abogado, consultor internacional en políticas públicas con enfoque de derechos humanos. Actualmente es investigador del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas en políticas públicas de acceso a la justicia centrada en las personas. Ha sido consultor de OIT, PNUD, ACNUDH, UNESCO, Unión Europea, entre otras organizaciones internacionales. 

Maria Cecilia de Araújo Asperti 

Professor, FGV São Paulo Law School 

Cecilia Asperti is a Professor at the São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Direito SP). Holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). Researcher in the fields of access to justice, litigation, and the role of courts and the justice system. Coordinator of the Center for Access to Justice, Procedure, and Dispute Resolution at FGV Direito SP (NAJUPMESC FGV).

Denise Dora 

Human Rights Lawyer, PPG Public Policies UFRGS 

Denise Dora is a human rights lawyer and activist with more than 30 years of experience on gender and access to justice in Brazil. A founding member of THEMIS – Gender Justice and Human Rights, a feminist organization that develops legal empowerment programs for women community leaderships since 1993, Denise holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University of Essex/UK, a MA in History and Politics from Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, and is a PhD candidate at UFRGS PPG Public Policies. 

Julia dos Santos Drummond 

PhD Candidate, FGV São Paulo Law School 

Julia dos Santos Drummond is a Professor (FGV Law). Senior Researcher (ESA-OAB/SP). Lawyer. Ph.D. in Law and Development (FGV Law SP, 2025). Masters in Human Rights (University of São Paulo USP, 2019). LL.B. in Law (USP, 2014). Visiting doctoral researcher at Arizona State University (USA), supported by a Fulbright scholarship (20222023). Areas of interest: access to justice and inequalities; intersectionality; family law; empirical legal research. 

Lorena Espinosa 

Research and Training Director

Lorena Espinosa is the Director of Studies and Training at the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA), an international organization of the Inter-American System, established in 1999 by resolution of the OAS General Assembly. She is a lawyer, PhD candidate in Law at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), and holds an LL.M in Human Rights Law from University College London (UCL). At Universidad Diego Portales, she teaches in the Department of Procedural Law and Legal Reasoning, has served as Associate Researcher in the Programme on Procedural Reforms and Litigation, and as coordinator of the Procedural Law Research Group. 

Daniela Gabbay 

Professor, FGV São Paulo Law School 

Daniela Gabbay is a P). She holds a Ph.D. and Masters from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP). Daniela is a visiting fellow at Yale University, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a member of several Brazilian Mediation and Arbitration Chambers and the author of articles, studies, and books on civil proceedings, mediation, arbitration, and extrajudicial mechanisms for dispute resolution. 

Luciana Gross Cunha 

Professor, FGV São Paulo Law School 

Luciana Gross Cunha - Master and PhD in Political Science. Professor at the São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Coordinator of the Center for Access to Justice, Procedure, and Means of Conflict Resolution. 

Rebecca Lemos Igreja 

Secretary-General, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences 

Ricardo Lillo 

Director, People-Centered Justice Lab, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Ricardo Lillo, who holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), is a Faculty Member and Director of the People-Centered Justice Lab at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. He has extensive experience in research and publications related to procedural law, procedural justice, access to justice, and due process. He has coordinated and executed empirical research projects on access to justice, judicial reform, and on the use of ICTs in the judicial systems. 

Gustavo Maurino 

Law Professor, Torcuato Di Tella University, Director, ELAC (Latin American School for Legal Activism and Community Laywering) 

Gustavo Maurino is a law professor at Torcuato Di Tella University and University of Palermo (Buenos Aires), and Director of ELAC (Latin American School for Legal Activism and Community Laywering). As a UNDP-Argentina consultant, Gustavo participated in the first application of SDG 16.3.3. indicator in Argentina, and he also worked on the design of a justice need assessment for people with disabilities. He has published several articles about human rights, and legal and constitutional theory, focused on access to justice and social rights. 

Sebastián Pilo 

Lawyer, University of Buenos Aires;, Consultant; Latin American Grassroots Justice Network 

Sebastián Pilo is a lawyer (University of Buenos Aires) and a consultant for the Latin American Grassroots Justice Network, where he works on the participation of civil society from the region in discussions around the Ibero-American Convention on Access to Justice. For eight years, he served as Co-Director of the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ), where he led the organization’s work on democracy and access to justice agendas. He has worked as a parliamentary advisor and litigates in numerous public interest cases in Argentina related to constitutional issues and economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. 

Rebecca Sandefur 

Professor, Arizona State University; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Rebecca L. Sandefur is Professor in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and (by courtesy) in the Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law at Arizona State University. Sandefur investigates access to civil justice from every angle -- from how legal services are delivered and consumed, to how civil legal aid is organized around the nation, to the role of pro bono, to the relative efficacy of lawyers, nonlawyers and digital tools as advisers and representatives, to how ordinary people think about their justice problems and try to resolve them. In addition to her appointment at ASU, Sandefur is Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the Access to Justice Research Initiative. 

Fernando Shecaira 

Professor

Fernando Shecaira is a Professor of Civil Procedure. He holds a Ph.D., an LL.M., and an LL.B. in law from the University of São Paulo. Shecaira was formerly a Visiting Researcher and Research Fellow at Yale Law School. 

Mateo Vásquez 

Researcher, Justice Studies Center of the Americas 

Operador, docente e investigador de Métodos de Resolución de Conflictos con experiencia en la implementación y operación de estos en entornos rurales, tales como la Caja de Herramientas en MRC del Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho y PJI de USAID Colombia, procesos de investigación del Centro de Estudios de Justicia para las Américas – CEJA, y con más de 650 casos atendidos de conciliación y mediación a la fecha. 

Danieli Chiuzuli

Doutoranda, FGV Direito SP

Doutoranda pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FD/USP) e mestra pela Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FDRP/USP). Pesquisadora no Núcleo de Acesso à Justiça, Processo e Meios de Solução de Conflitos da FGV Direito SP