Antônio Ferreira Cesarino Júnior

Antônio Ferreira Cesarino Júnior (16 March 1906 – 10 March 1992) was a Brazilian jurist and professor at the University of São Paulo (USP).

He was an innovator in legal education, setting up courses on labour law, as well as demanding and orientating his students to do internships in trade unions, in regional work inspection stations, in the National Institute of Social Insurance (Brazil) or in human resources departments of private and public companies.

He founded the Brazilian Partido Democrata Cristão (Christian Democrat Party) in July 1945.

He established in São Paulo, in 1954, the first World Congress of Labour Law (ILO).

He trained Brazil's first generations of labor lawyers and judges and was the author of several books and countless articles on labour law and occupational health in Brazilian and foreign magazines.