LL.B., Universidade de Brasília (UnB)/Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil)
Ph.D./M.A., Political Economy, University of Tennessee
J.D., Cornell Law School

Professor Colares' research and teaching focus on the intersection between international and domestic law through formal and empirical analyses of international and domestic adjudication. His scholarly work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of World Trade, Revista dos Tribunais (Brazil), Cornell International Law Journal, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and Wake Forest Law Review. 

He earned his LL.B. in Brazil, and pursued graduate studies in France at Université de Montpellier, where he specialized in international economic law. Subsequently, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee as a Fulbright Scholar, writing his dissertation on the political economy of the U.S./Japan automobile trade. After teaching law and economics in Brazil, Professor Colares returned to the U.S. and earned a J.D. at Cornell. He then spent two years in private practice at Dewey Ballantine (now Dewey & LeBoeuf) in Washington, D.C. Since he joined the Syracuse University College of Law faculty in 2005, Professor Colares has offered new perspectives on international dispute settlement and its impact on international trade and domestic regulatory discretion.

Last year he was selected as the first Cornell Fellow on U.S. and Comparative Law in France, where he is currently clerking for the Hon. Jean-Louis Debré, Chief Justice of the French Constitutional Court (Conseil constitutionnel). He is also a visiting professor of law at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. Professor Colares is currently working on two projects influenced by his experience in France: An Empirical Analysis of French Adjudication Regarding Conflicts Between French Law and EU Directives and WTO Adjudication and the Constitutionalization Metaphor.