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About Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Bruno Meyerhof Salama is an expert in Commercial and Financial Law, with extensive experience across academia, private practice, and government. At UC Berkeley Law School, he teaches a range of courses, including Law and Economics, Comparative Arbitration Law, Monetary Law and Regulation, Law and Development, and Law Technology and Entrepreneurship. He also teaches Commercial and Business Law as part of the doctoral program at FGV Law School in São Paulo.
As a founding partner of Salama Silva Filho Advogados, Bruno focuses on delivering expert legal opinions and advising on complex legal matters and disputes. He actively serves as an arbitrator and dispute resolution panelist at the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada, the American Chamber of Commerce, and the Brazilian Stock Exchange Arbitration Chamber.
Bruno has consulted for the World Bank and has served on Brazil’s National Financial System Appeals Council (CRSFN), overseeing financial markets. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School in New York and at Beijing Jiaotong University Law School in China. His legal practice spans leading firms in New York and São Paulo, and he is admitted to practice law in New York and Brazil.
His legal opinions have been cited in complex cross-border disputes and regulatory cases, and presented in high-profile forums, including U.S. District Courts in New York and California, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the ICC in Paris and São Paulo, as well as various Brazilian arbitration chambers, courts, and regulatory bodies.
Bruno holds a J.S.D. and LL.M. from UC Berkeley Law School, an M.A. in Economics from FGV São Paulo, and an LL.B. from the University of São Paulo. For a comprehensive list of his publications, visit https://works.bepress.com/bruno_meyerhof_salama/.

Positions

2024 - Present Professor of Law, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil ‐ Law School
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2019 - Present Lecturer, UC Berkeley ‐ Law School
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2018 - 2024 Guest Professor and Senior Global Fellow, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil ‐ Law School ‐ Law
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2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley ‐ Law School
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2007 - 2018 Professor of Law, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil ‐ Law School
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Curriculum Vitae



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Contact Information

salama@berkeley.edu

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Law review articles in English (12)

World Bank report (1)

Book chapters in English (3)

Authored books in Portuguese (3)

Edited books in Portuguese (2)

Law review articles in Portuguese (20)