Paula Almeida

Doctor summa cum laude in international and European law from the École de droit de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Postgraduate Program in Law, area of concentration: international law and economic integration (cotutela). Master in International and European Public Law from the Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud), Faculté Jean Monnet. Professor of undergraduate law and member of the permanent faculty of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Regulation Law at FGV Direito Rio. Professor at the FGV Centre of Excellence on EU-South America Global Governance, financed by the European Commission. Researcher at the Center for Justice and Society (CJUS) at FGV Direito Rio. Associate researcher at Institut de Recherche en Droit International et Européen de la Sorbonne (IREDIES). Elected Brazilian member of the Committee on Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals of the International Law Association (ILA). Title of maître des conférences by the French National Council of Universities (CNU). Visiting Professor at the École de droit de la Sorbonne de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2019). Visiting professor at the University of Salzburg (since 2017). She conducted postdoctoral studies, as visiting researcher, at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2014) and at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (2014). Research associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs (2012) and at the Centre d'études et de recherche en droit international et relations internationales de l'Académie de droit international de La Haye (2010). She worked as substitute teacher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (2006/2007).

Professor of International and Community Law, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Rio de Janeiro (since 2008). Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on EU-South America Global Governance, sponsored by the European Commission at Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law. Research Associate at the Institute of International and European Law at the Sorbonne (IREDIES). Professor in the Postgraduate Programs of the Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas and in the Master in International Relations of the Social Sciences School of Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Qualified as a 'maître des conferences' in Public Law (France, CNU). Appointed Brazilian member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals. President of the Interest Group on 'International Courts and Tribunals' of the Latin American Society of International Law (LASIL). Doctorate with distinction summa cum laude in International and European Law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l'unanimité, recommandé à des prix de thèse et à des subventions à la publication). Master of Law (Master II Recherche - former DEA) in International and European Public Law - Université Paris XI, Faculté Jean Monnet. Postdoctoral fellow, visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2014). Visiting professor at École de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2019). Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg (since 2017).