Publications

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Krishnan, Jayanth K., Megan Riley, and Vitor M. Dias. 2024. “Big Law’s Immigration Advocates.” University of Illinois Law Review 2024 (2): 447–510.

Dias, Vitor M. 2023. “Climate Change, Organizational Culture, and Symbolic Embeddedness in the Brazilian Amazon.” Sociology of Development 9 (4): 366–87. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2023.9.4.366.

Delaroche, Martin, Vitor M. Dias, and Paulo Eduardo dos Santos Massoca. 2023. “The Intertemporal Governance Challenges of Brazil’s Amazon: Managing Soybean Expansion, Deforestation Rates, and Urban Floods.” Sustainability Science 18 (1): 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01149-4.

Michelson, Ethan, and Vitor M. Dias. 2023. “White Spaces: The Enduring Racialization of American Law Firms.” In The Making of Lawyers’ Careers, by Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Bryant G. Garth, Joyce S. Sterling, David B. Wilkins, Meghan Dawe, and Ethan Michelson. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Dias, Vitor M., Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araújo Soares, Eduardo S. Brondizio, and Sandra Helena Ribeiro Cruz. 2021. “Grassroots Mobilization in Brazil’s Urban Amazon: Global Investments, Persistent Floods, and Local Resistance Across Political and Legal Arenas.” World Development 146:105572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105572.

Dias, Vitor M. 2021. “Black Lawyers Matter: Enduring Racism in American Law Firms.” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 55 (1): 99–138. https://doi.org/10.36646/mjlr.55.1.black.

Dias, Vitor M., and Alisha Kirchoff. 2021. “The Overlooked Story of the Immigrant Lawyer Experience in the United States: Analyzing Income Differences in the American Legal Profession.” International Journal of the Legal Profession 28 (3): 367–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2021.1890090.

Glezer, Rubens, Vitor M. Dias, Adriane Sanctis de Brito, and Rafael AF Zanatta. 2018. “Transforming Legal Capacity in Brazil: International Trade Law and the Myth of a Booming Practice.” In The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and Its Impact on Lawyers and Society, by Luciana Gross Cunha, Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, José Garcez Ghirardi, David M. Trubek, and David B. Wilkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krishnan, Jayanth K., Vitor M. Dias, and John E. Pence. 2016. “Legal Elites and the Shaping of Corporate Law Practice in Brazil: A Historical Study.” Law & Social Inquiry 41 (2): 346–70. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/lsi.12142.

Dias, Vitor M. 2016. “International Trade v. Intellectual Property Lawyers: Globalization and the Brazilian Legal Profession.” Journal of Civil Law Studies 9:57–125.

Krishnan, Jayanth K., Vitor M. Dias, and Martin Hevia. 2016. “External Forces, Internal Dynamics: Foreign Legal Actors and Their Impact on Domestic Affairs.” Texas Law Review 94:995–1022.

Krishnan, Jayanth K., and Vitor M. Dias. 2015. “The Aspiring and Globalizing Graduate Law Student: A Comment on a Lazarus-Black and Globokar LL. M. Study.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 22 (1): 81–93.