Ranked as the 4th best overall university in Latin America by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, it is one of the leading Latin American research universities, being the third largest university in Brazil and the fifth in Latin America, noted for its engineering school, and the only Federal University in the state of Santa Catarina.
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Adams earned his LL.B from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and later pursued a LLM from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, the capital of the State of Santa Catarina.