Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra, 15 November 1940) is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra. Sousa Santos has taught in various universities including Yale, Wisconsin-Madison Law Schooland University of Warwick. He is active in theWorld Social Forum in Brazil.[1]
He has written on a range of areas includinghuman rights, sociology of law, and democracy.