Research assistant and Ph.D. Candidate to Prof.Michael Riegnerat, the assistant professorship for international administrative law and international law at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Between 2019 and 2021 she completed two-year legal clerkship, at the Berlin Court of Appeal, Berlin, Germany. From 2018-2019 concluded a LL.M program at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. With a master's degree on the topic of international investment law from an EU law perspective ("In the light of Aechmea-the developments of International Investment Law in the EU and beyond").

Sovereignty and legitimate defence - Rita Preto is a dedicated scholar and researcher specialising in international law. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law, situated within the Porto School of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Portugal. Her research focuses on various aspects of international law, aiming to contribute to the development and understanding of this complex field. In addition to her doctoral studies, Rita is currently working as a Visiting Researcher at the FGV Centre for Global Law. This experience allowed her to broaden her perspectives and engage with international legal issues from a different cultural and institutional context. Rita holds a Master's degree in European and International Law from the Porto Law School at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her exceptional academic performance earned her the esteemed Professor Baptista Machado Award for achieving the highest distinction in her Masters of Law Dissertation. This recognition further attests to her intellectual prowess and commitment to excellence in legal scholarship.

Personal Scientific Interpretation of the Legal contestation on the rule of law and its impact on EU cooperation in criminal matters with third parties: EU - MERCOSUR - Benedetta Arrighini is a law graduate at the University of Trento with a thesis in International Criminal law under the supervision of Professor Gabriele Fornasari: Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, origin, development and perspective of an hybrid tribunal. In this research she compared the transitional justice model of South American countries with Kosovo's future process. The thesis was published as a book in 2021. During university she did a traineeship at the European Parliament, working in CULT and ECON Committees. Moreover she was an Erasmus Student in the Law faculty of Montpellier/1. While she was writing her thesis, she did a traineeship with the think tank Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso e Transeuropa in which she wrote an article about the EU-Western Balkans relations. After graduation she started legal practice in Criminal law. In 2021-2022 she was an L.L.M student at the College of Europe and she wrote a thesis in European Criminal Law, under the supervision of Professor John A.E. Vervaele, discussing the Foreign Terrorist Fighters’ Directive and the impact on the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence. She was accepted as GEM DIAMOND Fellow in the Research Position 11, supervised by Professor Anne Weyembergh (ULB) and Professor Paula Almeida (FGV), and Prof. Rossella Sabia (LUISS).

International Arbitration of Business and Human Rights Disputes: The Quest to Classify and Integrate Business and Human Rights Arbitration within the Existing Framework of International Dispute Settlement - Thesis jointly supervised by Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, International Max Planck Research School of the Institute; by Ingo Venzke, University of Amsterdam; and by Paula W Almeida, FGV Direito Rio - Master's degree in International Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) with a research focus on International Arbitration and Private International Law, including research periods at the Università degli Studi di Milano and the University of Cambridge. Graduated in Law from UFSC, with an academic mobility period at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where studies were focused on International Trade Law. Researcher in the Group of Research in International Law at UFSC (Ius Gentium - UFSC/CNPq) and at the Jean Monnet Module on European Private International Law at UFSC. Recipient of a full scholarship for academic excellence offered by the Hague Academy of International Law to attend the Summer Course on Private International Law in 2019. Member of the evaluation and review committee and founding member of Avant - Academic Journal of the UFSC Law Undergraduate Program. Coach for the UFSC team at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Regional representative of the Moot Alumni Association (MAA) in Brazil and honorary member of the Brazilian Association of Arbitration Students (ABEArb).