Rogério Bastos Arantes

Arantes has been a professor at FFLCH's Department of Political Science since 2008. He graduated in social sciences, and became a master and a doctor in political science at the same faculty. He focuses on the study of political institutions, with emphasis on constitutionalism and democracy in a comparative perspective; law and justice; Brazilian political system; institutions (Judiciary, Public Prosecutor's Office and Federal Police). He was a professor at PUC-SP, a researcher at the Institute of Economic, Social and Political Studies of São Paulo (IDESP,) and coordinator of the Post-Graduation Program in Political Science at USP. He is the author of "Judiciary and Politics in Brazil" (1997) and "Public Prosecutor's Office and Politics in Brazil" (2002.)