Roberto de Figueiredo Caldas
Roberto de Figueiredo Caldas is a former judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is also an attorney, partner and chairman of the Board of Alino & Roberto e Advogados.
Current activities
- Attorney, partner and chairman of the Board of Alino & Roberto e Advogados, which solely acts within pro-citizenship causes;
- Argues cases at Brazil's Supreme Court and at Superior Courts of Justice;
- Expert in Ethics, Human and Social Rights, as well as in Constitutional Law and Labor Law;
- Member of the Institute of Brazilian Attorneys, with a seat on the Standing Committee for Labour Rights since 1993;
- Lecturer and regular member of national legal public examination boards, including for Judges and Public Prosecutors.
Main titles and awards
- Bachelor of Law, University of Brasilia, 1984;
- Doctor honoris causa, São Luís College, Maranhão ;
- Doctor honoris causa, Complexo de Ensino Superior de Santa Catarina – CECUSC, School of Social Sciences of Florianópolis ;
- Commander of the Order of Labour Judicial Merit, Brazilian Superior Labour Court ;
- Commander of the Dom Bosco Order of Merit, Brazilian Regional Labour Court of the 10th Region ;
- Grand Cross Order of Labour Merit of Sergipe, Brazilian Regional Labour Court of the 20th Region.
Previous activities
- Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 2014 to 2015
- Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Member of the Public Ethics Commission of the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic Office
- Councilman of the Council on Public Transparency and Corruption Combat – Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil - CGU / Office of the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic. Within the Brazilian Bar Association - OAB, Roberto was councilman of the National Social Rights Commission, General Coordinator of the Coordinating Committee on Combating Slave Labour and of the Subcommittee on Combating Slave Labour of the National Committee on Human Rights, Chairman and Co-founder of the Committee on Slave Labour Combat and was a member of the Commission for Legal Education and the Special Commission of the Attorneys Caucus, Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Served as vice chairman, member, and co-founder of the National Social Rights Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. National Secretary-General of the National Commission for Defense of the Republic and Democracy of the Brazilian National Bar Association and the Brazilian Bar Association’s Representative before the Superior Court of Labour. Member of the Joint Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association and of the Brazilian Association of Magistrates on the Brazilian Judiciary Amendment, generating a substantial portion of Constitutional Amendment n. 45/2004. Participated on the National Commission on the Elimination of Slave Labour of the Secretariat for Human Rights / Office of the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic and of the Working Group on Labour and Union Amendment of the Economic and Social Development Council / Office of the Presidency of the Republic. Vice chairman Federal District of the Brazilian Association of Labour Attorneys – ABRAT. Roberto was councilman of the Federal District Brazilian Bar Association Section, in which he was the founder and the very first Chairman of the Commission on Social Rights.