Marcelo Galuppo holds a doctorate in Philosophy of Law and is a professor at the Minas Gerais Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and the Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Baltimore School of Law and is president of the Brazilian Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (ABRAFI) and vice-president of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy).