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Gabriela Guimaraes Weldon’s practice focuses on the representation of sovereign States in investor-state arbitrations and litigation, as well as public international law matters.

Gabriela received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as a student director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Schell Center for International Human Rights, as well as an articles editor for the Yale Journal of International Law. During law school, she spent a year researching land rights as a Fox Fellow at the Universidade de São Paulo. Prior to law school, she received her master’s degree in Peacebuilding at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and worked at an education nonprofit in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her bachelor’s degree in Latin American history and literature from Harvard College in 2016.

 

Credentials

Education

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 2024
  • M.A., Peacebuilding, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2020
  • A.B., History and Literature, Harvard University, 2016, cum laude

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
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