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Claudia Frutos-Peterson Adjunct Professor WCL Adjunct Faculty

Degrees
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 2003 ( with honors)
Ph.D., Universit茅 de Paris-I, Panth茅on-Sorbonne 1998 ( magna cum laude)
LL.M., Universit茅 de Paris-I, Panth茅on-Sorbonne 1993
LL.B., Universidad Aut贸noma de Nuevo Le贸n, Facultad de Derecho 1990 ( magna cum laude)

Bio

Dr. Frutos-Peterson is a partner in the International Arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.聽 She focuses her practice on arbitration, international law and international investment law and works with multiple governments and state entities. She has represented foreign states in investor-state arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).


Prior to joining Curtis, Dr. Frutos-Peterson spent eight years as Counsel at ICSID where she served as Secretary of Tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism, based on bilateral and multilateral investment treaties and international agreements.


Dr. Frutos-Peterson is an Adjunct Professor at 17吃瓜在线 Washington College of Law in Washington D.C., where she lectures on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration and and Head of Publications for the Center on International Commercial Arbitration at 17吃瓜在线WCL.聽 She is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad.聽 She is the author of the book L鈥櫭﹎ergence de l鈥檃rbitrage commercial international en Am茅rique latine: l鈥檈fficacit茅 de son droit, published by L鈥橦armattan.聽 Dr. Frutos-Peterson is cited as a leading lawyer in International Arbitration in Latin America by Legal 500 Latin America and recognized as a leading arbitration specialist by The International Who鈥檚 Who of Commercial Arbitration.
Dr. Frutos-Peterson is an Adjunct Professor and Head of Publications for the Center on International Commercial Arbitration at 17吃瓜在线 Washington College of Law where she teaches International Commercial Arbitration.聽 She is a frequent speaker at conferences on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration and the author of the book L'茅mergence de l'arbitrage commercial international en Am茅rique latine: l'efficacit茅 de son droit, published by L'Harmattan.

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