Education
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Barroso owned a law firm since 1980, and served as State attorney of Rio de Janeiro since 1985, until May 2013, when he was nominated Justice of the Supreme Federal Court. He obtained his Masters degree at Yale University and his Juris Doctor and South.J.D. at the Rio de Janeiro State University, where he is a Constitutional Law Tenured Professor. In 2011 Barroso was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, when he wrote and published, in the United States, paper called: "Here, there and everywhere: human dignity in contemporary law and in the transnational discourse".