Paulo Jose da Costa Junior in memoriam
The highly successful Brazilian professor, Paulo José da Costa Junior, having celebrated his 90th birthday in February and having followed a career as a professional lawyer and teacher up until the very end, died in Sao Paulo on 3 March 2015. Nobody who knew him could forget his intelligence, his sympathic nature and his capability to focus on new problems, grounded in legal studies and his broad cultural knowledge. He was one of the few Brazilian penalists involved in the international life of the Science of international criminal law before globalization.