Álvaro Pereira

Álvaro Pereira is a professor of corporate law, corporate governance, and entrepreneurship at Georgia State University College of Law (USA). His academic work examines how changes in legal rules and practices shape the creation of startups, venture capital, and the sustainability of market institutions. His research combines comparative analysis with empirical tools and has been published in the Columbia Business Law Review and the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, among other specialized journals, as well as in books published by Routledge, Hart, and Cambridge University Press. He was previously a professor of commercial, corporate, and banking law at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Italy), and an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). He has also held academic appointments at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business (USA), Pontificia Universidad Católica (Peru), Universidad EAFIT (Colombia), the University of Warsaw (Poland), and Stanford Law School (USA). Álvaro holds a law degree and an LL.M. from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), as well as an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (USA).