Mariana Pargendler

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Mariana Pargendler is Professor of Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in São Paulo, where she serves as director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Governance. She is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and has been Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

She holds an LL.B. and a PhD (Law) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), as well LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School. While at Yale, she was a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management, as well as an Olin fellow at the Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. Prior to joining academia, she was a corporate associate at the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is a member of the Brazilian bar association (OAB-RS) and the New York Bar Association.

Mariana is the author of several domestic and international publications examining problems in corporate law, corporate governance, and contract law from an economic and comparative perspective. Her work as appeared in leading journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Education and Degrees

Professor of Law, Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in São Paulo
Global Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Doctor (J.S.D.), Yale Law School
Doctor (PhD), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Master (LL.M.), Yale Law School
Bacharel of Laws (LL.B.), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Rio Grande do Sul Section
New York State Bar, United States of America