DANIEL BRANTES FERREIRA, Ph.D, FCIArb
He received his bachelor of Laws from PUC-Rio (2000-2004), a master's in Constitutional Law and Theory of the State from PUC-Rio (2005-2007), a doctorate in Constitutional Law and Theory of the State from PUC-Rio (2007-2011), and a post-doctoral degree in civil procedural law from UERJ (2017-2018). His main areas of study are alternative dispute resolution (focused on arbitration), digital technologies, legal theory, and legal philosophy.
Furthermore, during the second semester of 2009 (August to December), he was a visiting researcher at the Law School of the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he conducted research for his doctoral thesis on American legal realism and American legal education. He was a professor in the Department of Legal Theory at the National Law School from 2008 to 2009 and also taught at the Law School of FGV-Rio. He was Vice-President of the Constitutional Law Commission of OAB-RJ (2013-2015), President of the Commission for Legislative Affairs (2016-2018), and President of the Commission for Legal Education of OAB-RJ (2018). He was a professor at the Law School of IBMEC-RJ from 2013 to 2017 and Dean of the Undergraduate Law Program from July 2014 to July 2017. He was awarded the Tiradentes Medal by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 for contributing to legal education in the state. He was CEO of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA) (2021-2023). He was the Dean of the Academic Master's Degree at Candido Mendes University with a concentration area in Economic Law and Development. He teaches at EMERJ and in the Master's program at Ambra University (Arbitration Course). He holds the position of Research Fellow at The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at SUNY Buffalo Law School and Senior Researcher at South Ural State University (SUSU). He was an evaluator of Higher Education courses appointed by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution - RBADR (Scopus-indexed) and the International Journal of Law in Changing World (IJLCW). Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
