Rate My Professor Carlos Bernal-Pulido

Carlos Bernal-Pulido served as Full Time Associate Professor at Macquarie Law School from 2017 to 2020, following his role as Senior Lecturer from 2013 to 2017. He earned an LL.B. summa cum laude from Universidad Externado de Colombia in 1996, an S.J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Salamanca in 2001 with a dissertation on the principle of proportionality and constitutional rights, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Florida in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Florida in 2011. His research focuses on constitutional law, fundamental rights, the proportionality principle, legal ontology, collective intentionality, judicial reasoning, transitional justice, and human rights in Latin America. At Macquarie, he taught Foundations of Law, Jurisprudence, Theories of Law and Justice, Legal Research Methodologies, and Torts.

Bernal-Pulido's key publications include 'The Migration of Proportionality across Europe' (2013), 'A Speech Act Analysis of Judicial Decisions' (2007), 'Structure and Limits of Balancing' (2003, cited over 300 times), 'Legal Argumentation and the Normativity of Legal Norms' (2011), and 'On Alexy's Weight Formula' (2006). He received the Macquarie University Faculty of Arts Research Award (2014), Highly Commended for Research Excellence (2014), Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (2013), and Faculty of Arts Teaching Award for Enhancing First Year Experience (2013). His scholarship has influenced global discourse on proportionality and constitutional balancing, evidenced by over 18,000 Google Scholar citations, an h-index of 17, and top rankings in Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law, and Constitutional Law. Beyond Macquarie, he has held positions as Justice on the Colombian Constitutional Court (2019-present), Commissioner at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Dean’s Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Dayton School of Law (2024-present), and Professor at Universidad de la Sabana (2020-present), along with extensive visiting appointments at institutions including Yale Law School, Max Planck Institute, and University of Sydney. Awards include the Order of Boyacá (2020) and Fulbright Scholarship.