Edson Fachin

{{short description|Brazilian jurist and lawyer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Expand Portuguese|topic=bio|Edson Fachin|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = His Excellency

| name = Edson Fachin

| image = Luiz Edson Fachin 18dez2015.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Fachin in 2015

| office = Justice of the Supreme Federal Court

| termstart = 16 June 2015

| termend =

| president =

| appointer = Dilma Rousseff

| predecessor = Joaquim Barbosa

| successor =

| office1 = President of the Superior Electoral Court

| term_start1 = 22 February 2022

| term_end1 = 16 August 2022

| vicepresident1 = Alexandre de Moraes

| predecessor1 = Luis Roberto Barroso

| successor1 = Alexandre de Moraes

| birth_name = Luiz Edson Fachin

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|2|8}}

| birth_place = Rondinha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• Federal University of Paraná (LL.B.)
• Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (LL.M., LL.D.)

}}

}}

Luiz Edson Fachin (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian jurist and lawyer. On June 16, 2015, he became a justice of the Supreme Federal Court. Before that, he was a professor of civil law of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).{{cite web|url=http://www.stf.jus.br/portal/cms/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=293694|title=Luiz Edson Fachin toma posse hoje (16) como ministro do STF|publisher=Supremo Tribunal Federal|language=pt|date=16 June 2015|accessdate=24 May 2017|archive-date=16 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116191838/http://www.stf.jus.br/portal/cms/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=293694|url-status=dead}}