Jessica Holl, LL.M.

jessica.holl@uni-erfurt.de

Research Fellow at the Junior Professorship of International Administrative Law and Public International Law (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Jessica Holl, LL.M.

Biography

  • March 2022 - current - Research assistant - University of Erfurt, Germany

Main activities: Collaboration in the project "Varieties of Constitutionalism" (DFG/CAPES); development of scientific research and presentation of results; assistance in courses offered by the chair.

  • March 2020 - current - PhD in Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Preliminary title: Political Instrumentalization of Anti-Corruption Agenda Using the Example of the "Car Wash" Operation in Latin America

Supervision: Prof. em. Dr. Dres.h.c. Ulfrid Neumann

  • June 2020 - current - Legal Coordinator - Women's Visibility Association, Brazil

Main activities: coordination of the legal team; monitoring of processes and legislative proposals that specifically affect the enforcement of women's rights in Brazilian society; preparation of legal opinions on bills under consideration in the National Congress; data analysis and elaboration of opinions on women in politics; public policy and advocacy.

  • March 2015 - current - Researcher - Center for Transitional Justice Studies (CJT/UFMG), Brazil

Experience managing teams; legal research; writing legal opinions and reports to be presented before national and international organizations; organizing events and administrative activities.

  • November 2018 - November 2020 - Temporary Professor of Law - Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil

Subjects taught: concepts of international law; constitutional law; introduction to the study of law; electoral law; sociology of law; research methodology in law; real estate law.

Other activities: coordination of the Transitions and Authoritarianism Study Group; coordination of the Women's Ombudsman Office.

  • June 2017 - December 2017 - Consultant - Truth Commission of the State of Minas Gerais (Covemg), Brazil

Advising on the preparation of Covemg's final recommendations.

  • April 2017 - December 2019 - Research Fellow - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

Experience with international and constitutional law, managing and coordinating research groups, organizing academic events, planning courses and assessment activities, and administrative activities.

  • March 2017 - February 2019 - LLM (Master of Laws), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

Dissertation: A Legacy from the Dictatorship Era Not Overcome by Law 12.034/2009: Reflections on the Presence of Women in Elections to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer

Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

  • February 2012 - December 2017 - Bachelor of Law - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

Focus: Human rights, international law and constitutional law

PhD project

Political Instrumentalization of Anti-Corruption Agenda Using the Example of the "Car Wash" Operation in Latin America

Research interests and expertise

  • Constitutional Law
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Transitional Justice
  • Gender Studies
  • Democracy and Rule of Law
  • Brazilian Studies

Publications (selection)

  • Holl, Jessica; Mulheres e Participação Política: Análise Histórica e contexto atual. Belo Horizonte: Conhecimento, 2023.
  • Holl, Jessica; Bolsonaro and Transitional Justice, VerfBlog, 2022/9/27, verfassungsblog.de/bolsonaro-and-transitional-justice/, DOI: 10.17176/20220927-230730-0.
  • Meyer, Emílio Peluso Neder; Holl, Jessica. Justiça de transição na Argentina e o Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos: uma análise do Caso Luis Muiña ("regra 2x1"). Revista de Direito Internacional, v. 15, 2018, p. 199-217.
  • Goncalves, Raquel; Holl, Jessica. Por que uma crítica feminista ao direito? Reflexões a partir do caso Inês Etienne. In: Bárbara Mendonça Bertotti; Ana Cristina Aguilar Viana; Letícia Regina Camargo Kreuz; Renata Caleffi. (Org.). Gênero e resistência, volume 1: memórias do II encontro de pesquisa por/de/sobre mulheres. 1ed. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi, 2019, v. 1, p. 137-164.
  • Meyer, Emílio Peluso Neder; Holl, Jessica. O Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos e a Judicialização da Justiça de Transição no Brasil: reflexões sobre a não efetivação da proteção internacional dos Direitos Humanos no pós-1988. In: Glauco Salomão Leite; Gustavo Ferreira Santos; João Paulo Allain Teixeira; Marcelo Abanca Corrêa de Araújo. (Org.). 30 Anos da Constituição Brasileira: balanço crítico e desafios à (re)constitucionalizarão. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2018, v. , p. 507-530.