BA (Fortaleza, Brazil), JD (Fortaleza, Brazil), LLM (Toronto), PhD (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Ana Virginia Gomes is Professor of International Labor Law in the Master in Law Program at the Santos Catholic University, in Santos, Brazil. She will be a visiting professor at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies in the Spring of 2011. Her research focuses on international labour law. More specifically, she is interested in the guarantee of labor standards and the labor dimension of economic integration. Her recent published works include papers on trade union formation in Brazil, the linkage between labour and international trade, regulatory challenges in domestic work.