Find out who Cristiano Zanin is, Lula’s former lawyer nominated for the STF

Appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to a seat on the Federal Supreme Court (STF), lawyer Cristiano Zanin Martins, 47, graduated in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1999, specializes in strategic and decisive litigation, corporate or criminal, national and transnational. He was President Lula’s lawyer in the Lava-Jato Operation processes. His actions resulted in the annulment of Lula’s convictions by the Federal Supreme Court (STF). Based on a lawsuit headed by Zanin, the United Nations Human Rights Commission recognized that Lula’s arrest in 2018 violated due process of law and that, therefore, the ban on participating in that year’s election violated political rights. of the current president. Along with his wife, he is a founding partner of Zanin Martins Advogados and co-founder of the Lawfare Institute, which aims to produce scientific content on the subject and analyze emblematic cases involving the phenomenon. Lawfare is characterized by the misuse and abuse of the law for political and military purposes. Zanin also wrote the book Lawfare: An Introduction (2019). The institute was born in 2017 from the realization that the law is being used strategically in several countries to obtain illegitimate purposes, of a geopolitical, political, commercial, financial and military nature, which characterizes lawfare. The lawyer was a professor of civil law and civil procedural law at the Autonomous Faculty of Law (Fadisp). STF The STF is the highest body of the Judiciary, responsible for guaranteeing the protection of the Constitution. The Supreme Court is made up of eleven justices, all native Brazilians, aged between 35 and 70 years at the time of appointment to office. When chosen by the President of the Republic, the nominee undergoes analysis by the Federal Senate and must be approved by an absolute majority. Finally, the President of the Republic appoints him. In the criminal area, the ministers of the STF are competent to judge common criminal offenses, for example, against the president of the Republic, vice president, members of the National Congress, the ministers of the court and also against the attorney general of the Republic. In current times, the term of office of STF minister is for life, with compulsory retirement at age 75. In the case of Zanin, who is 47 years old, he will be able to perform the function for 28 years.

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