Operative Coordinator Master in International Law (LL.M.)María Gabriela De Abreu

Las Hortensias 2340

Providencia, Santiago

Chile

+56 222343466

mg.deabreu@heidelbergcenter.cl

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Gabriela de Abreu, portrait

Curriculum

Estudios

2017-2018 LL.M. in International Law: Investment, Trade and Arbitration (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, and Universidad de Chile. With support of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.)

Thesis: Labour Standards in Free Trade Agreements. Supervisor: Dr. Cristián Delpiano Lira.

Overall grade: 2 (Gut).

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship.

2014-2016 Magister Scientiarum in Labour Law 2014 - 2016 (Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín (URBE), Maracaibo, Venezuela.)

Thesis: The Social State of Law and Justice as a paradigm of International Social Justice in the framework of the domestic Labour Law. Supervisor: Dr. Ricardo Rubio Fermín. - Overall grade: 20/20.

2009-2012 Bachelor of law (Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín (URBE), Maracaibo, Venezuela. - Cum Laude honorable mention.)

Overall grade: 18.294/20.

Position 5 out of 322 law students.

Experiencia profesional

Since November 2018 Heidelberg Center Latin America. Coordination. Master of Law in International Law LL.M. 

Since November 2019 Research project FONDECYT, Santiago de Chile. Research assistant „Protection of Chilean Foreign Investment from Indirect Expropriation“ Researcher responsible: Ivette Esis Villarroel.

March 2019 - November 2019 Research project FONDECYT, Santiago de Chile. Research assistant “Interfaces of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's economic integration with the People's Republic of China and their impact on Sino-Chilean relations”. Researcher responsible: Juan Enrique Serrano.

January 2015 - March 2017 Banco Occidental de Descuento, Banco Universal, S.A. Maracaibo, Venezuela. In-house legal counsel. VP on Labour and Judicial Issue. Judicial Consulting.

May 2013 - January 2015 Construcciones y Proyecciones C.A. Maracaibo, Venezuela. In-house legal counsel.

November 2012 - May 2013 Legal Office Santa Maria, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Legal intern.

Language skills

 

Spanish: native           English: advanced            Portuguese: intermediate                  

German: elemental

Publikations

Esis I., De Abreu M., La identificación de la expropiación indirecta: el análisis de los criterios de privación de la propiedad y del tiempo utilizados en la práctica arbitral reciente. Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional Vol. 15, 2022 (press).

De Abreu M. Reseña Clorox España S.L. c. República Bolivariana de Venezuela (Corte Permanente de Arbitraje, Caso No. 2015-30), in CASTELEIRO, Andrés Delgado; ESIS, Ivette. Revisión de laudos de arbitrajes de inversión 2019: I Encuentro anual (Santiago de Chile, 25/06/2020). Revista de Direito Internacional, Brasília, v. 17, n. https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/7296/pdf

De Abreu M. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. c. República de la India (Corte Permanente de Arbitraje, Caso No. 2017-37), in CASTELEIRO, Andrés Delgado; ESIS, Ivette. Revisión de laudos de arbitrajes de inversión 2019: I Encuentro anual (Santiago de Chile, 25/06/2020). Revista de Direito Internacional, Brasília, v. 17, n. https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/7296/pdf

Serrano J., De Abreu M, Pérez A. Beyond copper: China and Chile relations. Asian Education and Development Studies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-08-2019-0132

Memberships

  • Chilean Society of International Law (SOCHIDI). Santiago, Chile.
  • Heidelberg Alumni International. Universität Heidelberg. Germany.

Volunteer

Round arbitrator in Competencia Internacional de Arbitraje. Universidad de Buenos Aires – Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. 2021.

Round arbitrator in Pre-Moot IX Pre-Moot. Centro de Arbitraje y Mediación Cámara de Comercio de Santiago: Torres del Paine 2021.

Preliminary round judge in Philip Jessup International Moot Court Competition. 2020 - 2021- 2022.

Round judge in Honduras University Arbitration Competition. 2020.