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Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick.

He is Director of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra; Scientific Coordinator of the Permanent Observatory for Portuguese Justice and member of the Research Group Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe) of the Centre.

He has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French and German.

CONTACTS:
Centro de Estudos Sociais
Colégio S. Jerónimo
Largo D. Dinis
Apartado 3087
3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal
Tel. (351) 239 855570/80    -    Fax (351) 239 855589
E-mail: bsantos@ces.uc.pt

Between September and December:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law School
975 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
USA
Tel. (1-608) 2637414    -    Fax (1-608) 2625485
Email: bsantos@wisc.edu