Advocacia Da Liberdade

Heleno Cláudio Fragoso is honored with a new edition of Advocacia da Liberdade, a work that remains one of the most relevant reflections on the role of advocacy in defending the Rule of Law and fundamental freedoms. More than a historical record of professional practice during the Brazilian military regime, the book presents a critical […]

Gestão Temerária de Instituição Financeira – 2ª Edição

The work offers an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the crime of reckless management within the National Financial System, examining its legal foundations, interpretive challenges, and practical application in the realm of economic criminal law. With technical rigor, the author addresses the boundaries between legitimate management and excessive risk-taking by financial institution executives, integrating criminal law, […]

Manual do Conselheiro: Na visão de quem atua

The book brings together a team of authors—including Rodrigo Falk Fragoso and Henrique Barbosa—who contribute original analyses that are highly relevant to understanding the contemporary challenges facing Boards of Directors. Coordinated by Milton Nassau Ribeiro—a national authority on governance with extensive executive and academic experience—the work offers a comprehensive, up-to-date perspective on topics essential to […]

Autoritarismo e Sistema Penal

This volume contains, with minor alterations, the study with which Christiano Fragoso earned his doctorate in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 2011. I had the renewed pleasure of closely following the development of this work—renewed because, a few years earlier, I had supervised the author’s master’s thesis, which brilliantly demonstrated […]

Reflexões criminológicas e dogmáticas acerca do crime de desobediência

This book addresses the scope of disobedience—a phenomenon that, in itself, ought to stem from an individual’s freedom to choose whether or not to comply with an order issued by a court or public official. Yet, in the present day, it encompasses an exorbitant number of situations where the legislature mandates compliance, intimidating individuals with […]

Dosimetria da pena da pessoa jurídica

There is much discussion in Brazil regarding models of criminal liability for legal entities and their potential incompatibility—on the one hand, with the theory of crime, and on the other, with traditional theories concerning the purposes of criminal punishment. The author intentionally chooses to address a different issue, tackling the difficulties that arise during the […]

Direito Societário, Recuperação Judicial e Falência na jurisprudência do STJ

The book brings together 22 articles written by experienced legal experts, covering topics such as corporate law, judicial reorganization, and bankruptcy. The proposal is to offer a practical and multidisciplinary perspective, with reflections based on the case law of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ)—the body responsible for consolidating the interpretation of these topics in […]

Gestão Temerária de Instituição Financeira

Stemming from the author’s doctoral thesis—which was approved with distinction by the USP examination board and recommended for publication—this book provides an in-depth analysis of the crime of reckless management of a financial institution, as defined in the sole paragraph of Article 4 of Law 7.492/86. This offense, characterized by the overly broad wording of […]

Direito Processual da Propriedade Intelectual

Published in the book *Direito Processual da Propriedade Intelectual* (Intellectual Property Procedural Law)—edited by Georges Abboud and Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa—the article “The Seizure of Cloud-Stored Digital Evidence in Intellectual Property Crimes,” by Rodrigo Falk Fragoso and Christiano Fragoso, addresses current challenges regarding the seizure of digital evidence that exists not on physical media but […]

Filosofia do Direito: Direito e Liberdade

This work emerged during the enriching classes of the Philosophy of Law course within the Master’s program at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Classes where debates over ideas and thoughts emerged. The book supports the subject “Law and Liberty,” taught by the honoree, Professor Dr. Marcia Cristina de Souza Alvim. The collection will […]

Ainda vive a teoria do bem jurídico?

“This work by Humberto Souza Santos is thoroughly informative. Reading it places the reader at the forefront of a complex contemporary debate—a fact that, in a scientifically peripheral context like Brazil’s, would justify its publication in its own right. Yet, the work does not merely repeat the ideas of others. The author develops his own […]

Repressão Penal da Greve

This work, with which Christiano Fragoso earned his Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminology from Candido Mendes University, constitutes, without a doubt, the most brilliant and exhaustive study in criminal law regarding the criminalization of the demands and struggles of Brazilian workers. First and foremost, I wish to highlight the methodological openness that permeates […]

Crimes de furto e de roubo

The crimes of theft and robbery account for approximately 28% of the country’s incarcerated population; one in four people imprisoned in Brazil is serving a sentence for theft or robbery. The significant practical importance of discussions regarding the doctrinal aspects of these offenses is also evidenced by a profusion of binding precedents and court rulings […]

Escritos Transdisciplinares de Criminologia, Direito e Processo Penal – Homenagem aos Mestres Vera Malaguti e Nilo Batista

This book, in honor of Professors Vera Malaguti and Nilo Batista, is a collection of reflective and critical writings on the penal system, criminology, criminal law, and criminal procedural law, authored by Brazilian and foreign professors—including some of the most prominent figures in the criminal sciences today. Christiano Fragoso’s article, titled “Criminal Code and Criminal […]

Pareceres Selecionados Emitidos pela Comissão Permanente de Direito Penal do Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros

Bringing together opinions drafted by members of the IAB’s Standing Committee on Criminal Law, the work contains papers approved by the IAB Plenary and forwarded to the National Congress, intended to contribute to the improvement of the legitimate and democratic legal order. The legal opinion authored by Christiano Fragoso addresses the Proposed Constitutional Amendment seeking […]

Co-autoria em crime culposo e imputação objetiva

“The reader will note that Humberto Souza Santos begins his work by doing something that is not, as a rule, done among us: tracing the history of the issue within domestic legal scholarship. Arguments are identified one by one—at the moment they emerged—and tracked as they are passed on to the next generation of criminal […]

Lições de Direito Penal

A renowned work on Criminal Law instruction that had been out of print for several years and now reappears in its 16th edition. edition, fully revised, updated, and expanded. The work addresses, concisely yet in depth, the entire subject matter concerning the General Part of the current Penal Code. Updated by Fernando Fragoso Publisher: Editora […]

Advocacia da liberdade

In this work, Heleno Fragoso recounts his arduous experiences as a defense lawyer for political prisoners during the “Years of Lead” of the post-1964 military dictatorship. Written in language accessible to the layperson, the book includes accounts of landmark criminal cases—such as those involving Ênio Silveira, Niomar Moniz Sodré Bitencourt, Caio Prado Junior, Father François […]

Jurisprudência Criminal

Far from being a mere repository of case law, the work presents carefully crafted commentary and critical analysis regarding countless rulings by the country’s courts in matters of criminal law and criminal procedure, consistently drawing upon extensive domestic and foreign legal scholarship. Although the work’s primary objective is eminently practical—namely, to provide precise knowledge of […]

Terrorismo e Criminalidade Política

Thesis submitted by Heleno Fragoso for the public competition to fill the position of Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). This pioneering work addresses the legal and criminological aspects of the complex phenomenon of terrorism, as well as political criminality, in a study of extraordinary contemporary relevance. The […]