About the Journal
The Latin American Human Rights Studies (LAHRS) is an open access, online, and annual journal by the PhD Program in Human Rights of the Federal University of Goias (UFG), Brazil. Founded in 2021, it promotes high-quality interdisciplinary research on human rights through a rigorous double-blind peer-review process and adheres to international academic publishing standards.
LAHRS holds an A4 classification in QUALIS—Brazil’s national research assessment framework administered by CAPES, the federal agency responsible for evaluating graduate programs and their academic output. In Brazil, CAPES performs an evaluative role comparable to that of HCERES in France, REF/UKRI in the United Kingdom, ANVUR in Italy, the Tri-Council system in Canada (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR), and major U.S. research-funding bodies such as the NSF and NIH. Within this framework, the A4 classification represents one of the upper tiers in Brazil’s journal ranking system.
LAHRS was founded and is led by Heitor Pagliaro, a tenured professor of Law at UFG. He previously served as Deputy Director and later as Director of the PhD Program in Human Rights. His research is concentrated in the fields of philosophy of law and political philosophy.
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