Evandro Lins e Silva

Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva (18 January 1912 – 17 December 2002) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, writer and politician. He was Prosecutor General of the Republic, Chief of Staff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Justice of the Supreme Federal Court.

He was also a lawyer of criminal affairs and taught criminal law in the then Guanabara State University (current Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)).

He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Biography Evandro Lins e Silva is the son of Maria do Carmo Uchôa Cavalcanti and Raul Lins e Silva, both from Pernambuco. His mom was niece-granddaughter of justice João Barbalho Uchôa Cavalcanti. His father, a graduate from the Faculty of Law of Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), made his career as a lawyer.

Lins e Silva graduated at the Faculty of Law of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) on 19 November 1932. While a student, he worked as a journalist, which office kept even after graduating. As a lawyer, he specialized in criminal law and developed intense professional activity, until 1961, in the Jury Court, in criminal courts, in superior courts, and in the Supreme Federal Court, defending, moreover, countless trials of great repercussion, including in politics, before the National Security Court and the Militar Justice.

In 1956, he was hired as professor of the Chair of Criminal Law History and Penitenciary Science, in the doctorate degree, in the Faculty of Law of the then Guanabara State, which he taught until 1961.

In Parnaíba, his birthplace, was constructed a memorial in his honor, with project signed by Oscar Niemeyer.

Brazilian Academy of Letters Fifth occupant of the Chair No. 1, elected on 16 April 1998, succeeding Bernardo Élis and received on 11 August 1998 by Academic Josué Montello. Received the Academic Raymundo Faoro on 17 September 2002.