Call for Papers – Special Dossier

20-10-2025

Call for Papers – Special Dossier

“Latin American Contributions to the Drafting of a Common Environmental Law”

Guest Editors:
Ana Maria Nusdeo
Camila Perruso
Carina Oliveira
Clóvis Eduardo Malinverni da Silveira
Kathia Martin-Chenut

Submission deadline: February 22, 2026

Expected publication date: July/August 2026

link: Call for Papers

This dossier is based on partial findings from the IRP ALCOM (International Research Project – Latin America and the Construction of a Common Law), an international research initiative supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and developed by teams from the University of São Paulo (led by Ana Maria Nusdeo and Claudia Perrone-Moisés), the University of Brasília (led by Carina Oliveira and Gabriela Moraes), and ISJPS Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (led by Camila Perruso and Kathia Martin-Chenut).

The environmental issue is a crucial aspect for understanding the legal contributions originating from Latin America that support the emergence of a common law—understood as a pluralistic legal framework that strives to reconcile the singular and the multiple, in line with the work of Mireille Delmas-Marty. This common law is not formed through unilateral transplants, but through reciprocal inspirations.

Key references include:

  1. Delmas-Marty, Pour un droit commun, Paris, Seuil, 1994;
  2. Delmas-Marty, Les forces imaginantes du droit II, Le pluralisme ordonné, Paris, Seuil, 2006;
  3. Delmas-Marty, K. Martin-Chenut, C. Perruso, Sur les chemins d’un Jus commune universalisable, Paris, Mare et Martin, 2021.

The IRP ALCOM does not aim to draft a common law—an impossible mission, especially in the current geopolitical context marked by the resurgence of populism and sovereigntism, despite evident interdependencies in the face of global crises, particularly the ecological/climate crisis. Rather, it seeks to make visible Latin American contributions that could circulate and participate in the sketching of a common law or fragments thereof.
Several elements justify the centrality of the environmental issue, including:

  • The development of highly protective legal techniques in the region’s constitutional texts;
  • The influence of indigenous and traditional communities’ ontologies and worldviews on environmental law;
  • The valorization of collective and diffuse interests, along with the institutional arrangements that support them;
  • Innovative interpretative dynamics adopted by regional courts, both domestically and by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Objective:

This dossier aims to analyze emblematic issues and legal innovations in environmental matters emerging from Latin America that have the potential to influence the construction of a common law—whether understood as a shared normative body or as a set of legal instruments capable of circulating across legal systems. Two complementary perspectives are proposed:

  • The actors involved in environmental norm production, focusing on their participation and how they—whether institutional or not—occupy decision-making spaces and shape environmental protection norms and instruments;
  • The norms and instruments, legal or otherwise, that emerge from this process, including principles, rules, techniques, and innovative mechanisms.

Contributions should reflect this cartography developed by project members (2022–2025) and by researchers engaged in similar studies. Suggested topics include:

  1. Emblematic environmental issues from Latin America with potential for circulation in other legal systems;
  2. Legal innovations based on norms and instruments, legal or otherwise, emerging from Latin America;
  3. Actors involved in creating these legal innovations capable of circulating in other legal systems;
  4. The influence of indigenous and traditional communities’ ontologies and worldviews on environmental law;
  5. The valorization of collective and diffuse interests and the institutional arrangements that support them;
  6. Innovative interpretative dynamics adopted by regional courts, both domestically and by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Submission Guidelines: Manuscripts must comply with RDAS requirements, as outlined at: https://sou.ucs.br/revistas/index.php/RDAS/about/submissions

Submission Portal: Submit your manuscript under the “Dossier” section at:
https://sou.ucs.br/etc/revistas/index.php/direitoambiental/submission/wizard?sectionId=222

Important: When entering your article title, precede the first word with “(dossier)”.
Example: (dossier) Title of the article xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Review Process:
 Articles will undergo double-blind peer review, following RDAS’s regular editorial workflow, and will be subsequently allocated to the specific dossier.

Editorial Policy:
https://sou.ucs.br/etc/revistas/index.php/direitoambiental/flow

Learn More About the Organizers

Prof. Dr. Ana Maria de Oliveira Nusdeo
Email: ananusdeo@usp.br
Full Professor of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, where she has taught since 2007. She holds a Bachelor’s degree (1992), Doctorate (2000), and Habilitation (2011) from the same institution. She has served as a counselor for the Center for Studies on Sustainable Amazonia since 2023 and for the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO) since 2021. Former President (2017–2019) and Director of the Institute “Law for a Green Planet.” She was a board member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCNAEL) from 2018 to 2024.
Institution: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo (USP)
Location: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Lattes: Link
ORCID: 0000-0002-1242-2839

Prof. Dr. Camila Akemi Perruso
Email: camila.perruso@univ-montp3.fr
Professor of Public Law and researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, affiliated with the laboratory “Acteurs, ressources et territoires pour le développement” (UMR ART-Dev 5281) since 2022. She is an associate researcher at the Institut des Sciences Juridiques et Philosophiques de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 ISJPS – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS) and at IRL2034 Mondes en transition (USP/CNRS). She holds a doctorate from both Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of São Paulo (USP).
Institution: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
Location: Montpellier, France
Lattes: Link
ORCID: 0000-0002-8856-6310
HAL: Link

Prof. Dr. Carina Costa de Oliveira
Email: carinaoliveira@unb.br
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Brasília. She completed postdoctoral studies at Université Paris 1, the University of Cambridge – CEENRG, and the Law School of the University of Adelaide, Australia. She holds a doctorate in law from Université Paris II-Panthéon Assas, France. She is co-leader of the Study Group on Law, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (GERN-UnB) and a CNPQ productivity fellow.
Institution: Faculty of Law, University of Brasília (UnB)
Location: Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Lattes: Link
ORCID: 0000-0001-8957-9343

Prof. Dr. Clovis Eduardo Malinverni da Silveira
Email: cemsilveira@ucs.br
PhD in Law (2011) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/CNPq), in the field of Law, State, and Society, with a doctoral exchange at Universidade Lusíada (Porto/Portugal) in 2010. Postdoctoral fellow at Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University/NY (2019). Master’s degree in Law (2005) from UFSC (CAPES), specializing in Philosophy, Theory, and History of Law. Bachelor’s degree in Law from UFSC (2002). Associate Professor at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS), active in the Graduate Program in Law since 2012. Co-author of the UCS Doctoral Program Proposal in Law, approved in 2016, with the first cohort in 2017. Leader of the Critical Environmental Law Research Group (DAC). Representative for Legal Sciences at the UCS Council for Teaching, Research, and Extension (CEPE). Member of the Curriculum Committee for Law and Social Work programs. Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law and Society Journal (RDAS). Member of the Environmental Defense Council (CONDEMA) of Caxias do Sul/RS. Member of the Enrique Leff Studies and Knowledge Network. Member of the Institute for Sustainable Economies and Law (IESD). Member of the Brazilian Association of Environmental Law Professors (APRODAB).
Institution: University of Caxias do Sul (UCS)
Location: Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lattes: Link
ORCID: 0000-0002-5210-0316

Prof. Dr. Kathia Martin-Chenut
Email: Kathia.Martin-Chenut@univ-paris1.fr
Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS – France), affiliated with the Institut des Sciences Juridiques et Philosophiques de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 ISJPS – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS). She coordinates the International Research Project “Contributions from Latin America to the Sketch of a Common Law” (IRP ALCOM), funded by CNRS and developed at the Center for Comparative Law and Legal Internationalization at ISJPS. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law, USP (1993), a Doctorate (2002), and a Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR, 2008) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Institution: Institut des Sciences Juridiques et Philosophiques de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 ISJPS – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS)
Location: Paris, France
Lattes: Link
ORCID: 0000-0003-3977-9069
HAL: Link

Caxias do Sul – RS, October 20, 2025

Prof. Dr. Clóvis Eduardo Malinverni da Silveira
 Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Environmental Law and Society (RDAS)