Background
CARNEIRO, Levi was born on August 8, 1882 in Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro. Son of Francisco Fernandes Carneiro and Maria Josephina de Souza Carneiro.
CARNEIRO, Levi was born on August 8, 1882 in Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro. Son of Francisco Fernandes Carneiro and Maria Josephina de Souza Carneiro.
Educated Liceu de Humanidades, Niterói. Bachelor of Laws, University do Brasil, 1903. Dr. honoris causa, University de La Plata.
Official of the Bureau of Accounts of the Ministry of the Marine. Director of the student periodical Revista Jurídica (published by the Faculty of Juridical and Social Sciences of Rio de Janeiro) ¡president of the Brazilian Federation of Students. Secretary of the Brazilian delegation to the International Conference of Jurisconsults, 1912.
Member of the Council of Income Taxpayers. Director and vice-president of the Administrative Council of the Savings Bank (Caixa Economica) of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Administrative Board of the Council for the Protection and Welfare of Children.
School delegate (delegado escolar) of Niterói. President of the Benjamin Constant Savings Bank (Caixa Escolar) of Niterói. Member of the Committee on the Codification of International Law.
Legal steward of the Misericordia Hospital of Rio de Janeiro. Solicitor general of Brazil, 1930-1932. President of the Legislative Committee, 1931-1933president of the Committee on the Revision of Contracts of the Ministry of Transportation, 1931-1932.
Professional delegate to the Constituent Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, 1933. Congresses: International Conference of Jurisconsults (secretary of the Brazilian delegation), 1912. Congress of National History, 1914.
Congress of the History of America, 1922. First Brazilian Congress of Eugenics.
Member administrative board, child welfare council. Member permanent commission to codify international public law. Member committee on economics development, 1947.
Member: Academy Brasileira de Letras (exprés.), Institute da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Associagáo Brasileira de Educagáo (founding member), Institute Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Academy Fluminense de Letras, Society Brasileira de Direito Internacional, Society de Législation Cornparée (Paris). Member, Academy, das Ciencias (Lisbon), Academy, de la Lengua (Colombia). Member, Colégio de Abogados (Lima), Institute dos Advogados (Sao Paulo, Bahia, Paraná, Sergipe).
Married Noeme de Mello Carneiro. Children: Cesario, Leticia, Sylvio, Belkiss, Zilah, Claudio, and Clea.