Professor
I am a professor of Private Law at the UFBA School of Law and hold a Ph.D. from USP. I collaborate in specialization courses and in master's and doctoral programs. My research and community engagement center on contracts, arbitration, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
Teaching
In undergraduate courses at UFBA, I teach Private Law, the civil-law field spanning its general theory, contracts, obligations, civil liability, property, family, and succession. These are taught as separate courses but belong to a single branch of law, unified by a single civil code. I also teach electives such as Real Estate Law and Roman Law. I like to approach each of these from its historical roots through to today's practical problems.
I began teaching in 2012, a year after graduating, as a temporary lecturer. I have not stopped since. I joined UFBA's permanent faculty in 2016. I consider ongoing contact with students a privilege that renews the way I think. That exchange helps me keep technical rigor without losing clarity.
International research and community engagement
I work in research networks, innovation labs, and moot courts. These spaces bring together researchers, students, and professionals around shared problems, in Brazil and abroad.
Research network
I am part of the network formed by USP, Humboldt-Berlin, Coimbra, Lisbon, Porto, Girona, UFMG, UFPR, UFRGS, UFSC, UFPE, UFF, UFC, UFBA, and UFMT. Among its activities, I highlight the Revista de Direito Civil Contemporâneo, published by RT, where I serve as a peer reviewer.
Research group
I lead the Law, Innovation and Technology group together with other UFBA faculty. We bring together undergraduates, alumni, and outside researchers. Calls for applications are usually opened in the first semester, for one-year projects.
Outreach
I am the faculty advisor of UFBA's LABID², a student-led project with a strong focus on digital rights, innovation, and the legal impacts of emerging technologies.
Moot courts
I collaborate with the NCI/UFBA arbitration group, which I helped found, by coaching teams for CAMARB, CAMAGRO, and the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held in Vienna, Austria.
Main research themes
I study contracts with attention to concrete problems in economic practice and to the pursuit of legal certainty and predictability.
I research arbitration as an appropriate means of resolving business disputes and disputes involving the public administration.
I follow the effects of artificial intelligence on society. I focus mainly on tools for legal work and on the impacts generated in people's everyday lives.
I am interested in new technologies. I investigate their legal aspects without losing sight of the classical categories of Private Law. I like to understand the technique behind innovation and translate it for non-specialist audiences.
Mentoring
I have supervised around 100 papers and taken part in more than 200 examination committees, from undergraduate work to master's and doctoral research. I try to help each student better define the problem, mature the argument, find their own voice, and write clearly. I follow former supervisees' achievements with satisfaction and have helped train new professors.
I support undergraduate students entering teaching through assistantship programs. I have found talent along this path and built solid relationships of mutual collaboration. In supervised teaching, I guide master's and doctoral students as they develop their careers as professors.
I give lectures, teach courses, and offer graduate-level classes. I enjoy discussing current issues and exchanging experience with lawyers, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and professionals from other fields, such as executives, physicians, and accounting experts.
Since 2014, I have coached teams in arbitration moot courts, especially in research, memorial writing, and oral advocacy. It is a setting where legal technique, collaboration, and decision-making under pressure appear together.
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