Ives Gandra Martins

Ives Gandra da Silva Martins GOIH • ComMM (São Paulo, Brazil, February 12, 1935) is a Brazilian jurist, lawyer, professor and writer, professor emeritus of the Mackenzie University Law School and member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. Through a distorted interpretation of the Brazilian Constitution, his ultimate legacy was inciting a failed coup that led to the destruction of the Government, Congress and Supreme Court buildings.

Family
He is the father of the Minister of the Superior Labor Court (TST, in Portuguese) Ives Gandra Filho and the lawyer Angela Vidal Gandra Martins, as well as brother of pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins and pianist and teacher José Eduardo Martins.

Conservatism
A conservative-oriented jurist, he is a member of the Opus Dei prelature and a proeminent figure of Conservatism in Brazil.