Clèmerson Merlin Clève is a Brazilian jurist, Law school professor, and lawyer. One of the most respected constitutionalists in Brazil, he is a full professor of constitutional law at the Federal University of Paraná . Clève is also a full professor of constitutional law and president at the Autonomous University Center of Brazil, and a visiting professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide – Máster Universitario en Derechos Humanos, Interculturalidad y Desarrollo and Doctorado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas . Clève also works as the institutional leader of the UFPR's 'Center of Constitutional Investigations'. Clève completed his university studies at Federal University of Paraná Law School in 1980 and his LLM at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 1983, and his JSD in public law at the Faculté de Droit of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 1985, and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1992. He became the first full professor of constitutional law at the Federal University of Paraná in 1992, with a thesis entitled "Judicial review in Brazilian Law", a classic in the Brazilian juridical literature. Clève is also a member of the Academy of Juridical Literature of Paraná, and a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Clève is member of several editorial boards on specialized constitutional law reviews. Acting as an attorney and a legal adviser, his firm is based on the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In February, March, April, June 2015, and in January, 2017 his name showed up several times in the Brazilian press as a likely candidate for a nomination to the Supreme Federal Court. In 2017, Clève was quoted in the press as the academic supervisor of Sérgio Moro and João Pedro Gebran Neto, judges in Operation Car Wash cases, at the Master in Constitutional Law of Federal University of Paraná Graduate Program. Clève was nominated for the Prêmio Jabuti in Juridical Literature 2015 for his book Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Jurisdiction.
Professional activities
Clève was Professor of Public International Law at UFPR ; Public Attorney of the State of Paraná ; Chair's Legal Adviser of Constituent Process of the State Constitution of Paraná ; Republic's Public Prosecutor ; Coordinator, and Vice-Director of the Federal University of Paraná Law School; and Substitute Judge of the Regional Electoral Court of Paraná. Some main cases which he promoted or participated:
As Republic's Public Prosecutor, Clève prosecuted, by means of an civil action, the Union, Funai, Ibama and Itaipu to protect the native forest, to proportionate alimentary and sanitary care, and to recover the lost landsby the peopleAvá guaraní during the colonization process on the west of the State of Paraná ;
In 2003, Clève defended the establishment of affirmative actions policies in Brazil. The outcome of this defense and memento was the ground for an article entitled "Ações Afirmativas, justiça e igualdade", published in Portuguese in several juridical scientific journals and reviews in Brazil;
He worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Justice in the Group of Experts who was responsible for the new Migrations' Statute draft.
Publications (Partial list, in Portuguese)
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Coleção Doutrinas Essenciais - Direito Constitucional, 5 volumes, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2015.
Doutrina, Processos e Procedimentos: Direito Constitucional, 2 volumes, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2015.
Direitos Fundamentais e Jurisdição Constitucional, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2014.
Direito Constitucional Brasileiro, 3 volumes, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2014.
Temas de Direito Constitucional, 2 ed., Belo Horizonte, Fórum, 2014
Jurisdição e Questões Controvertidas de Direito Constitucional, Curitiba, Juruá, 2013.
Soluções Práticas de Direito: Direito Constitucional, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2012.
Fidelidade Partidária e Impeachment, 2. ed., Curitiba, Juruá, 2012.
', Belo Horizonte, Fórum, 2012.
O Direito e os Direitos: elementos para uma crítica do Direito Contemporâneo, 3. ed., Belo Horizonte, Fórum, 2011.
Doutrinas Essenciais – Direito Constitucional, 7 volumes, São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2011.
', Belo Horizonte, Fórum, 2011.
Atividade Legislativa do Poder Executivo, 3. ed., São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2011.
Teatro inexperto em duas peças quase distópicas, Curitiba, Artes & Textos, 2011.
Medidas Provisórias, 3. ed., São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2010.
Direitos Humanos e Democracia, Rio de Janeiro, Forense, 2007.
A Fiscalização Abstrata de Constitucionalidade no Direito Brasileiro, 2. ed., São Paulo, Revista dos Tribunais, 2000.
Temas de Direito Constitucional, São Paulo, Acadêmica, 1993.
