Fernando Ribeiro Delgado

Winter Term 2013

Lecturer on Law

Education

• Princeton University A.B. 2004, Public and International Affairs concentration, Latin American Studies certificate
• Harvard Law School J.D. 2008

Appointments

• Global Advocacy Fellow, 2009
• Clinical Instructor, 2011
• Lecturer on Law, 2011

Practice Information

Fernando Ribeiro Delgado's work at the Human Rights Program includes fact-finding, reporting, and litigation related to extrajudicial executions, torture, arbitrary detention, corruption, and accountability, often with a focus on Brazil. Delgado is co-counsel in prisoners' rights cases brought before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; he has participated in oral arguments before both bodies. Delgado was the lead author of Portuguese-language report Sao Paulo under Extortion: Corruption, Organized Crime and Institutional Violence in May 2006, which was released in May 2011 by the Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and Justica Global, a leading national human rights non-governmental organization in Brazil. He previously worked as a Global Human Rights Fellow on Justica Global's national prison reform project in partnership with Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program. Prior to that, Delgado was an Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellow at Human Rights Watch, where he researched and wrote Lethal Force: Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (2009). Delgado also worked as a Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 fellow at Human Rights Watch from 2004-2005, during which time he co-researched and co-authored two reports: In the Dark: Hidden Abuses against Detained Youths in Rio de Janeiro (2005) and "Real Dungeons:" Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro (2004). He has held internships at the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee against Torture, and the petitions unit of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Additional Information

Mr. Delgado will co-teach, with Stephanie Brewer, the course The Doctrine and Practice of the Inter-American Human Rights System in the Winter 2013 term. The course will be taught in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Representative Publications

• Delgado, Fernando Ribeiro, Raquel Dodge & Sandra Carvalho. "Sao Paulo sob Achaque: Corrupcao, Crime Organizado e Violencia Institucional em Maio de 2006", Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic & Justica Global (2011).
  
• Delgado, Fernando Ribeiro. "Lethal Force: Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo", Human Rights Watch (2009).
  
• Bochenek, Michael & Fernando Ribeiro Delgado. "In the Dark: Hidden Abuses against Detained Youths in Rio de Janeiro", Human Rights Watch (2005).
  
• Bochenek, Michael, Fernando Ribeiro Delgado, Stephen Hamner & Helena Romanach. "Real Dungeons: Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro", Human Rights Watch (2004).
  

Bibliography

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