Marina Vitoria Baptista Rosa

Marina Vitoria Baptista Rosa, a Ph.D. candidate in animal law at the University of Helsinki, while also serving as coordinator for the National Association of Animal Lawyers in Brazil. CAF awarded Marina a grant for her project, “The Impacts of Protecting Animals in the Constitution: Insights from the Brazilian Experience,” which consisted of researching and publishing outreach materials related to recent positive developments in Brazil for animals as a result of both a constitutional provision dedicated to animal protection and strategic litigation efforts.

Marina’s paper, entitled “Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil’s Constitutional Blueprint,” was published in the LEOH: Journal of Animal Law, Ethics, and One Health, in 2024. In 2025, her paper was cited in a dissenting opinion by Justice Engin Yıldırım at the Constitutional Court of Turkey. Marina writes that her paper “was written during my PhD in Finland, and at a time when I was living in the UK. It is therefore particularly meaningful to see this piece of work resonate in a completely different context, now reaching the Constitutional Court of Turkey.” She continues, “I wanted to share this with [CAF] as an example of the impact made possible by the Foundation’s support. This project would not have come to fruition without your generosity.”