Deborah De Sousa e Castro Melo

Practice Areas

International Trade and Antitrust

Career

Déborah de Sousa e Castro Melo integrates the competition and international trade practice group, with focus on international trade. She has a wide breadth of experience in trade remedies investigations, including the representation of the domestic industry, importers and exporters in several trade remedies investigations, tariff modifications, trade and environment related issues, sanctions and export controls, in addition to other international trade related themes. Déborah is frequently invited to speak in Seminars in Brazil and was a speaker alongside top Brazilian authorities in the latest edition of the WTO Public Forum in Geneva (2024). She is also a member and the legal director of the network Women Inside Trade.

She has been recognized for her work in International Trade by the main legal directories such as Chambers, Legal 500 and Análise Advocacia.

Publications

Déborah Melo is the co-author of several works and publications, including:

– Biden Administration’s trade policy: Buy American Act (again). Coauthor.

– Multi-party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA): Considerations on the temporary solution proposed by the European Union, Brazil, China and 13 other WTO members in the context of the absence of an Appellate Body quorum. Coauthor.

– The participatory teaching model in International Law: report of an experience. Coauthor.

– Re-reading of the WTO Agreements: as interpreted by the Appellate Body. Participation in the volume on effects on the application of international trade rules. Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. Coauthor.

Personal

Déborah holds a law degree from the Federal University of Uberlândia, a master’s degree in international trade law from the School of Law of the University of São Paulo and is a PHD candidate in the same area, also at the School of Law of the University of São Paulo.