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Claudia Frutos-Peterson

Head of Publications for the Center on International Commercial Arbitration

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Ms. Frutos-Peterson is a consultant with the International Arbitration group in the Washington, D.C. office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. She was formerly counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) where she served as Secretary of Tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism.

Ms. Frutos-Peterson is an Adjunct Professor and Head of Publications for the Center on International Commercial Arbitration at American University Washington College of Law where she teaches International Commercial Arbitration. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration and the author of the book L'émergence de l'arbitrage commercial international en Amérique latine: l'efficacité de son droit, published by L'Harmattan.





Degrees & Universities

  • LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 2003 (with honors)
  • Ph.D., Université de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne 1998 (magna cum laude)
  • LL.M., Université de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne 1993
  • LL.B., Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Derecho 1990 (magna cum laude)