Claudia Lima Marques
CURRICULUM
Claudia Lima Marques holds the Private International Law and Law of International Relations Chair at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre , Brazil. A graduate of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, she holds a PhD. from Heidelberg University (Germany) and a LL.M. from Tübingen Law School (Germany). She has also studied in Saarbrücken, at the Europa-Institut. She has written and lectured extensively on private law, on conflicts of laws and consumer law issues. She is the author of eight books in consumer law--Contratos no Código de Defesa do Consumidor (1992 / 5th ed. 2006). Manual de Direito do Consumidor (with Antônio Herman Benjamin and Leonardo Bessa, 2008), Comentários ao Código de Defesa do Consumidor(with Antônio Herman Benjamin and Bruno Miragem, 2004/2.ed. 2005), Confiança no Comércio eletrônico e a proteção do consumidor (2004, Brasilcon Award for Best Book on Consumer Law) and one in International Family Law (Frankfurt, 1996), editor of four books on consumer law, Aplicação do CDC aos Bancos (with João Batista de Almeida and Roberto Pfeiffer, 2006), Direitos do Consumidor Endividado- Superendividamento e Crédito (with Rosangela Cavallazzi, 2006), Seguro e Responsabilidade (with José Reinaldo Lima Lopes and Roberto Pfeiffer,1999) and Estudos sobre a proteção do consumidor no Brasil e Mercosul (1994). She has one book published in Argentina, Contratos de servicios a los consumidores (with Ricardo Lorezentti, 2005) and has co-authored the book Derecho Internacional Privado de los Estados del Mercosur (Ed. Diego Fernández Arroyo, 2003). She has contributed to two books in the U.S. Consumer Law in the Global Economy - National and International Dimensions (Editor Iain Ramsay, Asgate-Dartmouth, Aldershot/ Brookfield USA, 1997),Consumer Law in the information Society (Editor Thomas Wilhelmsson et ali, Kluwer Law International, Boston, 2001). She has written numerous articles on civil law (contracts, torts and family law), on conflicts of laws and consumer law issues published in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Spain and USA. She has served on or been a consultant to Mercosur and the Brazilian Ministry of Justice on consumer law and antitrust matters and is listed as an arbitrator for Mercosur under the Olivos Protocol, as well as the Dispute Settlement Committee Brazil-Chile-ALADI. She is a lawyer in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is a visiting professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires and Santa Fé (Argentine) and has been a visiting professor at the University Paris I – Pantheón-Sorbonne (2006), Université de Savoie (2007). She has lectured at the OAS' International Law Course in 2000. In 2003 she was "Director of Studies " at the Private International Law Course of the Hague Academy of International Law (Holland) and she was once again lecture in this Academy in 2009 (“Protection of the Weaker Party in Private International Law - Consumers, Small Business and Not-for-Profit-Enterprises”). She is the author of the Brazilian proposal (currently under negotiations at the OAS) for an Inter-American Convention on the applicable law to some consumer contracts – future CIDIP VII.
