Raphael Carneiro Da Rocha Filho

Born in Salvador, BA, Brazil, on 12 August 1954. Admitted to the Bar in Rio de Janeiro in 1979. Education: LLB, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 1978. Further activities: Assistant professor of Civil Procedural Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, from 1985 to 1986; Rio de Janeiro State Attorney, from 1985 to the present. Positions of trust: assistant attorney to the state attorney general, from 1989 to 1990; state deputy attorney general, from 1990 to 1991; head of the Procuradoria do Patrimônio e do Meio Ambiente da Procuradoria Geral do Estado, from 1995 to 1998, and in 2002; president, Fundação Estadual de Engenharia do Meio Ambiente, 1998. Member: Council of the Procuradoria Geral do Estado, 1989; Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros, 1993; examination board, Administrative Law, at the 9th (1994) and 10th (1995) State Attorney Admission Tests; Conselho Estadual do Meio Ambiente, from 1995 to 1998; permanent committees of civil law, administrative law and commercial law of the Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros, from 1996 to 2005; permanent committees of civil procedural law and environmental law of the Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros, from 1996 to 2005; State Committee for Environmental Control, 2002; effective member of the board of Eternit SA, a public company, from 2003 to 2004. Languages: Portuguese, English and notions of French. Practice areas: civil law, civil procedural law, environmental law and administrative Law.