On 12th December, the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional – FBN (National Library Foundation) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, awarded our WALTA President, Professor Augusto Zimmermann, with the NATIONAL LIBRARY MEDAL – ORDER OF MERIT OF THE BOOK.
The National Library Foundation is the depository of the bibliographic and documentary heritage of Brazil. It is located in Rio de Janeiro, the capital city of Brazil from 1822 to 1960, more specifically at Cinelândia square.
The “Order of Book Merit Medal” from the National Library honours personalities with relevant work in the Brazilian cultural scene.
National Library Foundation’s President, Luiz Carlos Ramiro Junior, awarded this honour to Professor Zimmermann for his “contribution to national culture”. This is a tribute for his years of “impressive intellectual work on behalf of Brazil and on behalf of Western public law”.
On the occasion, Professor Zimmermann said: “I feel immensely honoured and grateful for the award to me of the “Order of Merit Book Medal” from the National Library. It was a tribute to my many years of intellectual work here and abroad in in favour of Brazil and in favour of Western public law. I would like to thank the National Library Foundation, especially in the person of its very competent president, Dr. Luiz Carlos Ramirez Junior”.
Professor Zimmermann presented the president of FBN with his latest book written in Portuguese, “Cosmovisions of Law in the Western World”, a book on the theories of law originating from Western civilisation. Professor Zimmermann is also professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth, Western Australia.
