Carlos Juliano Simões-Ferreira

Carlos Juliano Simões-Ferreira is a British Red Cross Research Fellow on the joint British Red Cross/International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) project on customary international humanitarian law. Prior to joining the project, Carlos Juliano was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School of Law, the School of Philosophy and Arts History, as well as the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex.  He also worked as a criminal lawyer in Brazil, as well as in different organisations in the United Kingdom, Brazil and Colombia.

Carlos Juliano holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Essex and completed his PhD in Human Rights at the same institution. His thesis examined the legality and procedural requirements for detentions and prosecutions carried out by non-state armed groups under international humanitarian, international human rights, and international criminal law.

Carlos Juliano speaks Portuguese, Spanish, German, English and French.