Fabricio Bertini Pasquot Polido
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Prof. Dr. Fabricio Polido is Associate Professor (tenured) of Private International Law, Comparative Law, and New Technologies at the Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is a permanent faculty member of the UFMG Graduate Program in Law, which he coordinated from 2015 to 2018, and also teaches in the UFMG Graduate Program in Technological Innovation. He holds a Law degree from the University of São Paulo Law School, with a period of international exchange at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. He also earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Turin, Italy (2007), and a Doctorate in International Law (‘magna cum laude’) from the University of São Paulo Law School (2010).
Dr. Polido has been a Visiting Researcher (Postdoctoral level) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany (2012); Kent Law School (2015, 2018); and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (2018). He was a Junior Visiting Professor at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a CAPES Foundation Visiting Professor Abroad Program fellow from 2018 to 2019. He is a member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP) and the Transnational Research Network on Critical Studies of International Law and Politics. He was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Special Commission on the Foreign Judgments Project from 2016 to 2019 and is currently a member of the Jurisdiction and Digital Economy Projects (Codifi) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Dr. Polido is a CNPq Productivity Researcher – Level 2 and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain under Senior Visiting Professor Scheme Program – CAPES.
