Bruno Meyerhof Salama teaches courses in Law & Economics, Law & Development, and Banking Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas's Law School in São Paulo, where he also directs the Latin American and Caribbean Institute of Law and Economics (ILACDE-FGV). He completed a law degree at the University of São Paulo followed by a master's degree (LLM) and a doctorate (JSD) at Boalt Hall, University of California Law School at Berkeley. Before joining academia, he was an associate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and before then at Pinheiro Neto Advogados in São Paulo, and he is still admitted to practice law before the bars of Brazil and New York. He is a founder and is currently the Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Law & Economics (ABDE). He has written in banking law, corporate law, intellectual property law, and legal theory.
Academic articles
A Economia da arbitragem: Escolha racional e geração de valor (with Antonio Celso Pugliese), 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 o Marco Regulatório Bancário Deve ser Interpretado? Uma Resposta a Partir da Evolução do Modelo de Estado no Brasil (2009)
Os pressupostos do direito administrativo são dados por algum modelo (ou teoria) de estado. Se...
Limitações Institucionais ao Funcionamento dos Controles de Câmbio no Brasil: O Caso dos Blue Chip Swaps, FGV Working Paper (2009)
Este trabalho retoma um velho problema, a saber, a operabilidade dos controles cambiais brasileiros dentro...
Towards an Intellectual Property Bargaining Theory: The Post-WTO Era (with Daniel Benoliel), ExpressO (2009)
This article proposes a positive bargaining theory for intellectual property-based technologies in the post-WTO era....
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....
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...