Juscelino Colares is a specialist in the intersystemic aspects of the law on international trade, climate change and civil procedure. Professor Colares' unique analytical viewpoint has led him to explore varied topics in interjurisdictional law, such as the discontinuity between domestic judicial and international dispute settlement review of national agencies' trade determinations, the barriers against and possibilities for climate change reform in the United States and abroad, and the reverse-Erie, choice-of-law problem in the EU context. His research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, Revista dos Tribunais (Brazil), Columbia Journal of European Law, Cornell International Law Journal and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Professor Colares began his legal education in Brazil and pursued graduate studies in France at Université de Montpellier, where he specialized in international economic law. Later, as a Fulbright Fellow, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, writing his dissertation on the economic and political dimensions of the U.S./Japan automobile trade. Professor Colares received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and practiced at Dewey Ballantine in Washington, D.C. Prior to teaching at Case Western, Professor Colares clerked for the Hon. Jean-Louis Debré, Chief Justice of the Conseil constitutionnel (the French Constitutional Court) (2008-09 term). While in Paris, he was also visiting professor at Ecole normale supérieure. A versatile scholar, Professor Colares has taught civil procedure, international business transactions, international environmental law, international trade law, law & economics and WTO law & dispute settlement (short summer course at Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2012).