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Judge Kassio Nunes Marques, appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) to the STF (Supreme Federal Court), presented his master’s thesis to the Autonomous University of Lisbon with complete extracts that would be copied from articles published on the Internet. The information was released today by the magazine Crusoé.
Marques reportedly copied excerpts from articles written by lawyer Saul Tourinho Leal, a member of the Carlos Ayres Britto law firm, a former STF minister. Even Portuguese errors were repeated, indicating that the judge “copied and pasted” the texts without revision.
With the 2015 thesis, Kassio Marques obtained his master’s degree in law. Crusoé analyzed 127 pages of academic work and identified at least 10 extracts that reproduce passages from Tourinho Leal. Nunes Marques does not refer to the attorney.
In total, the thesis is 46.2% similar to the texts already published and available on the Internet. In addition, the text file has the name of the lawyer Saul Tourinho Leal as the author of the document. In Marques’ academic curriculum, he also presents a postgraduate course at the University of La Coruña, in Spain. The institution, however, denies the existence of the course.
Judge Cassio Nunes Marques was contacted by Crusoe, but the magazine is waiting for an answer. THE Twitter He also tried to contact Nunes Marques, who has yet to comment on the plagiarism charge.
Plagiarized excerpts
On pages 30 and 31 of the dissertation by Nunes Marques, it is possible to identify the first extracts compatible with the articles by Tourinho Leal. The judge writes:
In the Constitution of India, in its article 37, when speaking of social rights, it is said that the provisions contained in this Part should not be implemented by any Court, but the principles established here are, however, fundamental for the government from the country. and it should be the duty of the State to apply these principles in the drafting of laws. The constituent established a prediction on the merely programmatic content of social rights, not only directing them exclusively to the government of the country, but strictly prohibiting the insertion of the Judiciary, in discussions about the realization of the right to health. This is not what happened in Brazil. “
The article by the lawyer Tourinho Leal says:
“The Constitution of India, in its article 37, when it speaks of social rights, says that ‘the provisions contained in this Part should not be implemented by any Court, but the principles established here are, however, fundamental for government of the country and it should be the duty of the State to apply these principles in the drafting of laws. ”In the case of India, the constituent established an express provision on the purely programmatic content of social rights, not only directing them exclusively to the government of the country, but by prohibiting the insertion of the Judiciary in discussions about the realization of the right to health. That is not what happened in Brazil. “
In another excerpt, Kassio Marques reproduces a spelling error. In both works, the African country Namibia appears as “Nanibia”:
“In turn, p. 101 of the Constitution of Nanibia says that the principles of state policy contained in this Chapter should not, by themselves, be legally enforceable by any Court, but should, nevertheless, guide the government in the preparation and application of laws to give effect to the fundamental objectives of the aforementioned principles ”, reads the work signed by the judge.
In Tourinho Leal’s text, the text: “Article 101 of the Constitution of Nanibia says that” the principles of state policy contained in this chapter must not, by themselves, be legally enforceable by any court, but must, however, guide the government in the drafting and application of laws to implement the fundamental objectives of those principles. “
Inconsistencies in the curriculum
It is not the first time that a nominee by President Bolsonaro has noted errors or inconsistencies in his lattes. In June, the then Minister of Education Carlos Alberto Decotelli da Silva was denied by the Dean of the University of Rosario regarding the title of Doctor. At the same time, the minister was also accused of plagiarism of the master’s thesis that he presented to the FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas).
The Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, also has inconsistencies in her curriculum. In speeches and conferences she gave before being nominated, she introduced herself as a “lawyer”, a “teacher in education” and “in constitutional and family law.” However, when asked about her education, the minister assumed that she never obtained academic degrees.
The Minister for Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, at the Planalto Palace
Image: Wallace Martins / Futura Press / Estadão Content
“Unlike the secular teacher, who needs to go to a university to do a master’s degree, in Christian churches everyone who is dedicated to biblical teaching is called a teacher,” Damares said.
In February 2019, the website The Intercept Brazil It revealed that the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, never studied at Yale University, in the United States, and did not obtain a master’s degree in public law from the American institution.
Salles’ alleged training at Yale was in a profile posted on the Nexo website, which reported using information provided by Salles for an article in Folha de S. Paulo. The minister later attributed the error to his press office.
Former ministers of the MEC
The curriculum of the former Minister of Education, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, contained at least 22 errors at the time he still commanded the portfolio, in March 2019.
The survey was carried out by the Nexo website. The errors were related to the bibliographic production listed in the ex-minister’s lattes curriculum. Among the errors were books attributed to Vélez, but not his, works listed outside the standard format and articles published in non-scientific journals.
Abraham Weintraub
Image: Marcelo Camargo / Agência Brasil
Velez’s successor at the MEC (Ministry of Education), Abraham Weintraub, also had noted problems in his curriculum. When announcing the name of the economist who will head the portfolio, Bolsonaro said that Weintraub was a doctor, but the former minister never obtained this title.
The information, however, was not in Weintraub’s lattes curriculum or on his Linkedin. After the disputes, Bolsonaro used social media to correct the previous post.
