Dr Marcus De Matos
Senior Lecturer in Law

Elliot Jaques 004

Email: marcus.dematos@brunel.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266896

Book consultation hours

Membership and affiliation

Honorary Member of the Institute for Brazilian Lawyers (IAB), the oldest legal institution in the Americas, founded in 1843.
Board member of the Brazilian Association of Academics and Students in the UK (ABEP-UK), hosted by the Embassy of Brazil in London.
Member of Law and Film Network (Grupo de Pesquisa Direito e Cinema) - CNPq, Brazil.
Board member of the Network of Christian Lawyers for Popular and Colective Action (RECAP).
Board member or Aliança Bíblica Universitária do Brasil (ABUB).

Media interests

Dr De Matos is avalable for media quests on human rights & social justice; democracy, public law and religion; digital democracy and online avatars; decolonisation and global south politics; the relation between law, culture and art; and socio-political and legal issues focused on Latin American & Brazil. He is also available for specific human rights & public police issues such as police violence, torture and the protection of witnesses, victims and human rights defenders and activists.

Latest media quests, dissemination of research & specialist opinion include:

Interviews given & Consultancy:

Consultation to the Open Innovation Team’s work on digital democracy in the Indo-Pacific with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
Interview to BBC Brazil on the 60th Anniversary of the Brazilian Evangelical Confederation 1962 Conference, and the Human Rights & Religion research project, funded by the Brunel Institute of Communities and Societies: "Christ and the Brazilian Revolutionary Process."
A comment on the investigation opened by the Public Prosecution Office in the State of Minas Gerais (MPMG) against hate speech supposedly promoted by Colégio Batista Getsêmani, a baptist faith-based school, against minorities in Brazil. The comment was published by fact-check agency Coletivo Beréia and is available here: "Diretor de Colégio Batista afirma sofrer perseguição religiosa".
Interview to Carta Capital on the Brazilian Supreme Court cases of ADIs 5248, 5255, 5256, 5258, about availability of public funding for public schools buying bibles.

Blog posts:

Blog post "Jesus Fights Back: Easter Torture & Reverse Racism" published by Critical Legal Thinking.
Blog post "Colonialismo, Memória e Hospitalidade: Gonçalves Dias, C. S. Lewis e o Marco Temporal" on Dignidade!.
Legal Commentary on Brazilian Supreme Court case RE 1071365, the "Marco Temporal" doctrine to limit native Brazilian Constitutional original claims to land. "The Right of Native Brazilians," published by A Terra é Redonda critical blog.

Live TV & Radio:

The Brazilian Covid situation: podcast interview by the Renew Our World movement (ROWcast) with Dr Marcus De Matos and José Carlos Muniz from RECAP, on their legal claims taking the Brazilian Federal government and other State and local authorities to court over their mismanagement of the pandemic.
Radio interview to Papo de Crente, broadcasted on radio in São Paulo, about the recent arrest of Evangelical pastors accused of corruption and lobbying in the Ministry of Education in Brazil.
TV Broadcasted event by Rede TVT: "Cristo e o processo revolucionário: 60 anos da Conferência do Nordeste," promoted by the Brazilian Association of Lawyers for Democracy and the Brunel Institute of Communities and Societies: