Unbreakable Conference: Breaking the Glass Ceiling in LAW

Eugenia Castrillon

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Eugenia is a lawyer graduated from Georgetown University and Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She has experience as a tax advisor for national and international companies for over 8 years. After this experience she has dedicated herself to academia, working as executive director of undergraduate studies in law where she managed more than 800 students and over 5 different programs. She is currently the vice dean for undergraduate programs of IE Law School, where she has worked to create and enhance undergraduate programs. Outside this she has led law workshops and other events such as the IE Women Initiative, where she has provided women in IE all the tools and opportunities they’ll need to excel in today’s global landscape.

Sonsoles Arias

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Sonsoles is a lawyer specialised in private and public law since 2005. She is a full-time Professor of Law at IE University, where she teaches Constitutional law and Administrative law. Her research interests lie in the field of Constitutional law -more specifically in vertical separation of powers and unitary and federal systems. Her doctoral thesis –Las Constituciones de los Länder de la República Federal de Alemania: Contenido, garantías y posición en el ordenamiento jurídico alemán, CEPC, 2015- obtained the recognition of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in 2015, and received the Premio Nicolás Pérez-Serrano para tesis doctorales, one of the most important Awards in this matter. She has conducted research at Harvard Law School, Bucerius Law-School and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität. She also practiced Law at Garrigues´ Litigation and Arbitration Department for several years. She is a member of the Madrid Bar Association.

Johanna Jacobsson

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Johanna Jacobsson is full-time Professor of European and International Law at IE Law School. She holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Helsinki and a Ph.D. in International Trade Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She also holds a B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Helsinki. Professor Jacobsson’s main research interests are in the fields of international trade and business law, EU law and international dispute settlement. She has previously acted as a law clerk at the Court of Justice of the European Union and been a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Professor Jacobsson has also practiced law in a commercial law firm where her practice focused on dispute settlement (national/EU litigation and commercial arbitration) as well as on competition, employment and general corporate law. Professor Jacobsson is a member of the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). In addition to her fulltime professorship at IE, she acts as an independent consultant in her areas of expertise.

Marta Vizcaino

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