Maria Cristina Palhares Dos Anjos Tellechea

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 8 January 1950. Admitted to the Bar in Rio de Janeiro in 1973. Education: LLB, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 1972. Further activities: Research Assistant to Professors Joaquim de Arruda Falcão and Maria Teresa Miralles, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, in a research conducted with a view to improving legal education in Brazil, 1973-1974. Professor, Civil Procedure Law, Universidade Candido Mendes, since 1988. Director of teaching methodology, Instituto de Ciências Penais do Rio de Janeiro, since 1977. State attorney, State of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the board of admissions to the Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro, since 1984 and of the board of admissions to the career of state attorney since 1995. Languages: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. Practice areas: labour law and social security.