I am Pedro M. Batista, Lecturer in Commercial, Corporate, and Banking Law at the University of Leeds School of Law and a CLI Fellow at NYU School of Law.

My research examines the public choice of law and finance, with particular emphasis on banking regulation and supervision, corporate governance and finance, and the institutional design of digital and decentralised finance. I study how legal rules and institutional arrangements shape the incentives of firms, market participants, regulators, and supervisors, and how those incentives affect corporate decision-making, market discipline, and financial stability.

Prior to joining academia, I worked as a corporate lawyer and consultant and held a series of legal and policy roles across Brazil's federal government. I served as Division Chief of the Department for Rationalisation of State Requirements at the Secretariat of Micro and Small Enterprise of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil. I also held legal positions at the Brazilian antitrust authority, the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica; the Secretariat of Legislative Affairs of the Ministry of Justice; the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic; the Legal Advisory Office of the Ministry of Justice; the National Bank for Economic and Social Development; and the Federal Attorney General's Office.

I am affiliated with the Centre for Business Law and Practice at Leeds and the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law. I am also a PhD candidate in Law and Economics of Money and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, where my work brings together law and economics, public choice theory, banking supervision, and the political economy of financial regulation.