Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos (27 August 1795 - 1 May 1850) was a Brazilian politician, journalist, judge and law expert of the Imperial era.

Bernardo's father, a Portuguese born in the freguesia of Santo Ildefonso, Porto, studied in the Mariana Seminary and later moved to Coimbra, where he graduated with a Law degree in 1782, returning to Minas Gerais the following year.

Thus, for 25 years, a man of precarious health, he kept uninterrupted work in drafting laws and codes, from the discussions in the provincial House of Representatives, until his unforeseen end.

The first legislature of the Chamber of Deputies, which was installed in a solemn session on May 6, 1826, in the presence of the emperor, who recommends the adoption of complementary laws, decides on the diffusion of the smallpox vaccine, the regulation of relations between the Church and State; the process of expropriation to the fixation of the Armed Forces; the endowment of the imperial family, the reform of the Judiciary; public education, the creation of legal courses in São Paulo and Olinda; separation of powers and definition of competences; the responsibility of ministers of state for political crimes; the municipal administration and the Criminal Code of 1830, originating in the projects of Vasconcelos and José Clemente Pereira.

On August 7, 1826, he authored the project that created the Supreme Court of Justice, converted into law only in 1828 that abolished the Discharge of the Palace, in a major decentralization reform.

José Pedro Xavier da Veiga, in Ephemerides Mineiras, says: "Practical and positive spirit until insensitivity, he recommended to social problems solutions according to the tangible interest of the State, although high principles of a moral order perished."