Luís Roberto Barroso was nominated to the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil in 2013 and served as the president of the Superior Electoral Court from May 2020 to February 2022. His tenure is marked by landmark votes on the legalization of abortion, and the criminalization of homophobia and transphobia. Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for drug legalization and the end of special judicial privileges for high-level officials.

Before being nominated, Barroso owned his own law firm- Luís Roberto & Associados- in Rio de Janeiro, which specialized in public law and Supreme Court litigation. He also served as a state attorney in Rio de Janeiro.

Barroso graduated with a degree in law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), has a Master’s Degree in law from Yale Law School, and a PhD from UERJ, being a professor of Constitutional Law at the same university. He did his post-doctoral studies at Harvard Law School in 2011 and since 2018 he has been a senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Barroso was an event speaker at the Dialogue.