Interview with Professor Dr. Geraldo Prado

Abstract

Professor Emeritus at the Rio de Janeiro State Magistrates School (EMERJ), former Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Integrated Researcher at Ratio Legis – Center for Research and Development in Legal Sciences at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Professor Dr. Geraldo Prado is an international reference on topics such as criminal evidence, procedural guarantees, and intersections between law, politics, and economics. With a career that combines judicial practice, institutional criticism, and transnational academic research, his reflections stand out for their analytical depth and theoretical rigor. This interview, conducted by Rodrigo Oliveira de Camargo and Carlos Helder Furtado Mendes for the thematic dossier of the Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences, seeks to explore, in light of the protection of personal data as a fundamental right, the tensions between public security, criminal investigation, and constitutional guarantees.