Ada Pellegrini Grinover (16 April 1933 – 13 July 2017) was a Brazilian lawyer. She was a full professor at the University of Sao Paulo and attorney for the State of Sao Paulo.

Life

Grinover was born in 1933 in Naples. Her father,

Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro (August 30, 1899, in Brienza, in Basilicata – June 18, 1970, in Montevideo) was an Italian academic, economist, lawyer, politician, and (in his final years) journalist. As a young man living in Caserta, Pellegrin ...

, was to become an Italian minister in the 1940s. Her father had been involved with the Italian fascists and they left Italy and the family emigrated to Brazil in 1951. She studied law at the University of Sao Paulo graduating in 1958 and with a doctorate in 1970. In 1973 she became a law Professor and in 1980 a full professor. In 2002 she was involved in setting up a long list of new laws for Brazil. Others involved were Miguel Reale,

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and Gofredo da Silva Teles Júnior, she actively participated in the important drafting of the Brazilian Civil Code. In 2005, "Studies in Tribute to Professor Ada Pellegrini Grinover" was published by professors

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and

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. Grinover died in São Paulo in 13 July 2017.

References

1933 births 2017 deaths Italian emigrants to Brazil 21st-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian writers Brazilian women lawyers University of São Paulo faculty University of São Paulo alumni People of Campanian descent {{Brazil-writer-stub