Practice Areas
Carmen’s main areas of practice are International Litigation, Private International Law, and Arbitration, in which she works both as a legal expert and conducting litigation. She figures in lists of arbitrators of many arbitral institutions (CBMA, FGV, CAM-CCBC, CIESP/FIESP), having served as a sole arbitrator, chair and co-arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, in Brazil and abroad, and counsel in several cases. Carmen was also appointed as prospective arbitrator to the Mercosur and the Mercosur-Bolivia Tribunal by the Brazilian government.
She acted as legal expert in various disputes in foreign jurisdictions including Australia, France, United Kingdom, Germany and multiple U.S. States." She also subscribed, along with other international law scholars, the amici brief referred to by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Sessions, Attorney General v. Morales-Santana.