Bruno Meyerhof Salama teaches courses in Law & Economics and Banking Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas's Law School in São Paulo, where he also directs the Instituto Latino Americano e do Caribe de Direito e Economia (FGV-ILACDE). He completed a law degree at the Universidade de São Paulo followed by a master's degree (LLM) and a doctorate (JSD) at Boalt Hall, University of California Law School at Berkeley. He has been an associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados in São Paulo and at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, and is admitted to practice law before the bars of Brazil and New York. He has also visited at the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He is a founder and is currently the Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Law & Economics. He has written in legal theory, corporate law, intellectual property and banking law.
Academic articles
A Economia da arbitragem: Escolha racional e geração de valor (with Antonio Celso Pugliese) (no prelo), Revista da Direito GV (2008)
This article examines the institute of arbitration and its relationship with court activities from the...
Contribution to books
How are minority shareholders of listed companies protected in Brazil? (with Viviane Muller Prado), Readings in Latin American Company Law (2008)
Interviews & Articles published in trade journals
Bruno Salama explica o que é a disciplina Direito e Economia e como sua compreensão pode melhorar nosso entendimento de justiça., OrdemLivre.org (2008)
A discussão de custos e benefícios pode conferir maior legitimidade às decisões judiciais, Espaço Jurídico Bovespa (2007)
O mercado de resseguros e a privatização do IRB (with Bruno Balduccini), Revista Consultor Jurídico (2003)
Brazil’s Supreme Court Invalidates Attempt to Privatize Reinsurance Monopoly (with Bruno Balduccini), Latin American Law and Business Report (2003)
Overview of the Insurance Market in Brazil (with Bruno Balduccini), The Euromoney International Global Insurance Hankbook (2002)
Working papers
Como funciona a proteção dos acionistas minoritários de companhias abertas no Brasil? (with Viviane Muller Prado), Fundação Getualio Vargas Working Papers (2008)
Privatizing risks: Contingent EDIs to minimize the risk of Contingent Economic Development Incentives, Fundação Getulio Vargas Working Papers (2007)
The Insurance Function of Contracts, Fundação Getulio Vargas Working Papers (2007)
One of the central problems in contract law is to define the frontier between legal...
Presentations & Conferences
The Protection of Minority Shareholders in Brazil, 2008 Latin America - U.S. Symposium at Harvard (2008)
El modelo político y económico brasileño , Perspectivas económicas y políticas en América Latina (2007)
Analizar el modelo político y económico de cualquier país es un asunto complejo y espinoso....
In search of a broad research agenda in Law & Economics for Latin America, Seminario Internacional de Análisis Económico del Derecho (2007)
Translations
Três efeitos das normas sociais sobre o Direito: expressão, dissuasão e internalização (with Robert Cooter), The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2007)
What determines whether state law is rational and efficient, or irrational and inefficient? State organizations...