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Nicole Friedrich is currently a Law PhD candidate at the University of Minho (Portugal), studying the inter-judicial dialogue among European, American, and African human rights systems, focusing on ethnic and cultural diversity. She holds a degree in Law and completed her Master's at the University of Minho in 2022, with a thesis on the use of ethnic-racial categories by Portuguese courts. Since 2018, she has contributed to the InclusiveCourts project's collection of case law on cultural diversity in Portugal, leading to several publications. She has been a licensed lawyer in Brazil since 2015. During her undergraduate studies in Brazil, Nicole balanced internships, work at a legal publishing house, and research in Public International Law. In her final year of law school, she won an award in a Human Rights annual competition organized jointly by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights in the United States.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nicole Anagnostopoulos Friedrich

Citation names

  • Friedrich, Nicole

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F10-7679-386E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6081-2225

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Law
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Italian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2027/09
Ongoing
PhD in Law (Doctor)
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal
"Minorias étnicas, povos indígenas e diversidade cultural na jurisprudência dos tribunais internacionais de direitos humanos: Oportunidades de diálogo interjurisdicional nos sistemas europeu, americano e africano" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/01
Concluded
Master's in Human Rights (Master)
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal
"Diferença cultural sub judice: minorias étnicas na jurisprudência dos tribunais superiores portugueses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
2014
Concluded
Law Degree (Bachelor)
Fundação Escola Superior do Ministério Público, Brazil
"Globalização e direitos humanos na perspectiva da financeirização da economia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/09 - Current Doctoral Fellow / PhD Candidate Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT, Portugal
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal
2015 - Current Licensed lawyer in Brazil Independent worker, Brazil
2022/05 - 2022/08 Production of analytical summaries of judicial decisions for the multicultural jurisprudence collection of the InclusiveCourts project Independent worker, Portugal
2011 - 2015 Multimedia Translator (Portuguese-English) Deluxe Digital Studios Inc, United States
2010 - 2015 Writing, analysis, review, and updating services for academic texts for publication of works for a specialized legal publisher Editora Verbo Jurídico, Brazil
2012 - 2014 Internship (Banking Law, Notarial Law, Legal Credit Analysis) Regional Bank for the Far Southern Development - BRDE, Brazil
2011 - 2012 Internship in the office of a Justice of the Court of Justice (Administrative / Public Law) Court of Justice of the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2010 - 2011 Internship at the Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul State Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2009 - 2010 Internship in the office of a State Prosecutor (Administrative Law, Diffuse and Collective Rights Law) Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2008 - 2009 Internship in the office of a State Prosecutor (Administrative / Public Law) Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2027/08/31 Minorias étnicas, povos indígenas e diversidade cultural na jurisprudência dos tribunais internacionais de direitos humanos: Oportunidades de diálogo interjurisdicional nos sistemas europeu, americano e africano
2023.02726.BD
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2018 - 2022 InclusiveCourts
Junior Researcher / Collaborator
Research Centre on Justice and Governance, Portugal
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Friedrich, Nicole; Hortmann, Charize. "Environmental racism: trash exportation from the United States to Brazil". In Future Law. Portugal: Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Jurídicos, 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org//10.62140/FUTLAW2024
  2. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. "Racialized individuals; Black people, Afro-descendants". 153-172. Braga, 2022.
Conference paper
  1. Friedrich, Nicole; Hortmann, Charize. "Environmental racism: trash exportation from the United States to Brazil". Paper presented in V FutureLaw, Porto, 2024.
  2. Friedrich, Nicole. "Mother tongue translation denied status of human right". Paper presented in CUREDI Annual Conference, Halle, 2023.
  3. Dias, Cristina; Rocha, Miriam; Casa-Nova, Maria José; Durand, Jean-Yves; Friedrich, Nicole. "Presentation of Results: Multicultural Jurisprudence in Family and Juvenile Matters". Paper presented in Closing Conference - InclusiveCourts, Braga, 2022.
  4. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. "The right to education and compulsory schooling of Roma children through the lens of court practice in Portugal". Paper presented in 7th Law and Society Association's International Meeting: Rage, Reckoning and Remedy, Lisbon, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. "O direito à educação e a escolarização das crianças ciganas na prática dos tribunais portugueses [Right to education and the schooling of Roma children in the case law of Portuguese courts}". Scientia Ivridica LXXI 359 (2022): 243-283. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/87538.
    Published
Manual
  1. AAVV. [Course:] Bar Association of Brazil. Porto Alegre: Verbo Jurídico. 2015.
    Published
  2. AAVV. [Course:] Federal Public Defender's Office and State Public Defender's Office. Porto Alegre: Verbo Jurídico. 2015.
    Published
  3. AAVV. [Course:] Federal Judge. Porto Alegre: Verbo Jurídico. 2014.
    Published
  4. AAVV. [Course:] Attorney General's Office and Solicitor General's Office. Porto Alegre: Verbo Jurídico. 2014.
    Published
  5. AAVV. Manual of Labor Practice. Porto Alegre: Verbo Jurídico. 2011.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Cultural Difference in Court: Ethnic Minorities in the Case Law of Portuguese Higher Courts". Master, University of Minho - Law School, 2022. https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/83347.
  2. "Globalization and Human Rights in the Context of Financialization of the Economy". Degree, Fundação Escola Superior do Ministério Público, 2014.

Other

Annotation
  1. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Annotation to the judgment of] Évora Court of Appeal, proc. 1674/18.1T8TMR.E1, 09.09.2021".
  2. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Annotation to the judgment of] Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 03P148, 20.02.2003".
  3. Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Annotation to the judgment of] Porto Court of Appeal, proc. 1341/17.3T8MTS.P1, 18.05.2017".
  4. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Annotation to the judgment of] Lisbon Court of Appeal, proc. 732/13.3TBVFX-A.L1, 11.09.2014".
  5. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich Nicole. 2022. "[Annotation to the judgment of] Porto Court of Appeal, proc. 0842155, 28.05.2008".
  6. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Anotação ao acórdão do] Tribunal da Relação do Porto, proc. 0842155, 28.05.2008".
  7. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Anotação ao acórdão do] Tribunal da Relação de Évora, proc. 1674/18.1T8TMR.E1, 09.09.2021".
  8. Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Anotação do acórdão do] Tribunal da Relação do Porto, proc. 1341/17.3T8MTS.P1, 18.05.2017".
  9. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Anotação ao acórdão do] Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, proc. 03P148, 20.02.2003".
  10. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole. 2022. "[Anotação ao acórdão do] Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa, proc. 732/13.3TBVFX-A.L1, 11.09.2014".
Other output
  1. Conversation about Research in Justice and Governance. Science and Technology Week. 2022. Jerónimo, Patrícia; Friedrich, Nicole; Rego, Ximene. https://www.cienciaviva.pt/semanact/2022/eventos.php?accao=showactivities&id_activity=2636#evento.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/17 Minorias étnicas, povos indígenas e diversidade cultural na jurisprudência dos tribunais internacionais de direitos humanos: Oportunidades de diálogo interjurisdicional nos sistemas europeu, americano e africano [Ethnic minorities, Indigenous peoples and cultural diversity in the international human rights courts case-law: Opportunities for interjurisdictional dialogue in the European, American and African systems] 1º Encontro Ciência Redonda [1st Roundtable Science Meeting]
Colégio Doutoral da Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2024/02/03 Environmental racism: trash exportation from the United States to Brazil V FutureLaw
Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Jurídicos (Porto, Portugal)
2023/10/13 Mother tongue translation denied status of human right CUREDI Annual Conference
(Halle, Germany)
2022/11/22 Conversation about Research in Justice and Governance Science and Technology Week
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/07 The right to education and compulsory schooling of Roma children through the lens of court practice in Portugal 7th LSA's International Meeting
Law and Society Association (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/23 - 2023/11/23 Supported the organization led by Patrícia Jerónimo for the Arqus conference 'Current Challenges to the International Legal Order', featuring speakers Prof. Gerd Oberleitner and Prof. Lisa Heschl from the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at Graz University. (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Justiça e Governação, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/11 Supported the organization led by Patrícia Jerónimo for the International Seminar on Equality and Cultural Difference in Latin America, featuring Prof. Dr. Lorena Ossio Bustillos from the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, and Prof. Dr. Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. (2023/11 - 2023/11)
Seminar
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/08 Supported the organization led by Maria José Casa-Nova, Manuela Ivone Cunha, and Patrícia Jerónimo for the European Sociological Association Midterm Conference - Human Rights, Democracy and the Threats of Old and New Populisms: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia. (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/08)
Conference (Other)
Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal

European Sociological Association, France

Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal

University of Minho - Centre for Research in Education, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/07/25 - 2024/07/27 The theme of the congress was human mobility, with discussions from the challenges faced by migrants and refugees to the positive contributions of academic diasporas to society and science.
Congress
3d International Congress on Migration and the Brazilian Academic Diaspora
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2024/07 - 2024/07 Conference focusing on human rights issues such as gender equality, health rights, artificial intelligence, and environmental protection, themes addressed within the scope of human rights global and regional systems.
Congress
VI Jornadas Australes de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos [6th Sessions on International Human Rights Law]
Círculo de Estudios de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Chile
2024/06/11 - 2024/06/20 Course (18h) covered topics of open access in science, and the current tools available for it - both in relation to publications and data management / openness in research Open Science Summer School
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/04/10 - 2024/04/10 Seminar featuring speaker Prof. Patrícia Jerónimo Diversidade cultural e direitos das minorias no Direito internacional dos direitos humanos: teoria e prática [Cultural diversity and minority rights in international human rights law: theory and practice]
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/03/16 - 2024/03/16 Seminar featuring speaker Prof. Caio Paiva Casos contra o Brasil na Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos [Cases against Brazil in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights]
CEI Acadêmico, Brazil
2024/02/02 - 2024/02/03 International conference exploring emerging trends and future directions in the field of law
Conference
V FutureLaw
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/01 Course (35h) regarding the international framework of human rights promotion and protection and the regional perspectives on the standards, mechanisms, benefits and challenges in five regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, the Arab World, Asia Pacific, and Europe.
Other
Promoting and protecting human rights: a global overview
Global Campus of Human Rights, Italy
2023/12 - 2023/12 Course (30h) on the origins and evolution of the Inter-American System and its two bodies, covering the general aspects of their composition, organization, and functions. It also addresses their landmark decisions as well as the progress and challenges in the implementation of these decisions by the states in the region.
Other
Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos [Inter-American Human Rights System]
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, United States
2023/12 - 2023/12 Course (5h) about the admissibility criteria in applications submitted to the ECtHR Admissibility Criteria in Applications Submitted to the ECtHR
Council of Europe, France
2023/12 - 2023/12 Course (4h) covered antidiscrimination issues as identified in the ECHR, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and other relevant legal documents. It also explored key terms and definitions associated with discrimination. Anti-discrimination
Council of Europe, France
2023/11 - 2023/11 Featuring speakers Prof. Gerd Oberleitner and Prof. Lisa Heschl
Seminar
Current challenges to the international legal order
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Research Center on Justice and Governance, Portugal
2023/10/19 - 2023/10/21 Course covered key concepts, CoE and EU non-discrimination law and the body of case law of the ECtHR and of the CJEU, in addition to decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights.
Other
Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia and Transphobia
Council of Europe, France
2023/10/11 - 2023/10/13 Translation: translation of concepts; preconceptions and limitations of translation; translating human rights in diverse domestic systems; (mis)translation in the judiciary; practicalities and challenges faced by translators.
Conference
CUREDI Annual Conference
CUREDI - Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe, Germany

Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
2023/10/02 - 2023/10/02 Featuring speakers Prof. Lorena Ossio Bustillos and Prof. Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet
Seminar
International Seminar on Equality and Cultural Difference in Latin America
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal

Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/08 Theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of research on antisemitism and racism, also in a comparative framework
Conference
ESA Midterm Conference - Human Rights, Democracy and the Threats of Old and New Populisms: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia
European Sociological Association, France

Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal

University of Minho - Centre for Research in Education, Portugal
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/06 Scientific research methodology course taught by Prof. Leonardo Simonini Zotero: Reference Manager
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health, Brazil
2023/05/25 - 2023/05/25 Featuring speakers the presidents of each of the courts: Judge Síofra O'Leary (ECtHR), Judge Ricardo C. Pérez Manrique (IACtHR), and Judge Imani Aboud (ACHPR)
Seminar
International Seminar "Regional Human Rights Protection Systems and their challenges"
European Court of Human Rights, France

African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, Tanzania

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Costa Rica
2022/07/13 - 2022/07/16 Rage, reckoning and remedy
Conference
7th LSA's International Meeting
Law and Society Association, United States
2022/02/19 - 2022/03/12 Course taught by Prof. Julio César Santos, Prof. Taylisi de Souza Corrêa Leite, and Prof. Alessandra Benedito
Other
Law Against Prejudice - Legal Means to Combat Discrimination
Luiz Gama Institute, Brazil
2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 Conceptual Issues in Legal Decision Argumentation and the Intersection of Cultural Difference with Various Areas of Law
Workshop
III Workshop InclusiveCourts
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal
2019/06/12 - 2019/06/12 Terminological and Conceptual Issues, Fundamental Principles, and Translation Practices
Workshop
I Workshop InclusiveCourts
University of Minho - Law School, Portugal
2018/11/07 - 2018/11/08 Corruption, Ethics, and Democracy; Analysis and Prospects; New Formats and Challenges; Anti-Corruption Procedural Tools
Conference
Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights
Santiago de Compostela University - Law School, Spain

University of Minho - Human Rights Research Group, Portugal

Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal
2018/01 - 2018/03 The Value of Human Rights on the Camino de Santiago: Harnessing the Power of Tourism to Promote Intercultural Dialogue and Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals First International University Forum
Compostela Group of Universities, Spain

Helsinki Spain, Spain

United Nations World Tourism Organization, Spain
2017/10/06 - 2017/10/06 Vulnerability Factors and Gender Issues; Gender, Work, and Family; Gender and Power
Conference
Gender Equality: Challenges Old and New
Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Online course on critical analysis of theories of justice taught by Prof. Michael Sandel
Other
Justice
Harvard University, United States

edX, United States
2012 - 2012 Course taught by Prof. Véra Maria Jacob de Fradera
Other
Introduction to International Commercial Contracts
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Law School, Brazil
2012 - 2012 Course taught by Prof. José Alvarez
Other
International Regulation of Foreign Investment
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Law School, Brazil
2011 - 2011 Course taught by Prof. Ejan McKaay
Other
Good Faith and Contractual Justice and the case of Ownership of Blood
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Law School, Brazil
Distinctions

Award

2013 Best Victims' Memorial in Portuguese, 18th Inter American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, United States

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Costa Rica

American University Washington College of Law, United States

Other distinction

2008 Scholarship for Bachelor's Degree in Law
Fundação Escola Superior do Ministério Público, Brazil