Clèmerson Merlin Clève

In 2017, Clève was quoted in the press as the academic supervisor of Sérgio Moro and João Pedro Gebran Neto, judges in Operation Car Wash cases, at the Master in Constitutional Law of Federal University of Paraná Graduate Program.

In February, March, April, June 2015, and in January, 2017 his name showed up several times in the Brazilian press as a likely candidate for a nomination to the Supreme Federal Court.

Clève was nominated for the Prêmio Jabuti in Juridical Literature 2015 for his book Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Jurisdiction.

Clève was Professor of Public International Law at UFPR (1986–89); Public Attorney of the State of Paraná (1986–2009); Chair's Legal Adviser of Constituent Process of the State Constitution of Paraná (1989); Republic's Public Prosecutor (1990–92); Coordinator (1992–94), and Vice-Director (1992–96) of the Federal University of Paraná Law School; and Substitute Judge of the Regional Electoral Court of Paraná (1999–2000).

Clève completed his university studies at Federal University of Paraná Law School in 1980 and his LLM at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 1983, and his JSD in public law at the Faculté de Droit of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 1985, and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1992. He became the first full professor of constitutional law at the Federal University of Paraná in 1992, with a thesis entitled "Judicial review in Brazilian Law", a classic in the Brazilian juridical literature.

Clèmerson Merlin Clève (born November 21, 1958) is a Brazilian jurist, Law school professor, and lawyer.