BENTOLILA LAW

CURRICULUM VITAE

Professional Experience 

  • Partner, Bentolila Law, Geneva, 2023.
  • Associate in International Arbitration, White & Case, Geneva, 2015-2023.
  • Associate in International Arbitration, Winston & Strawn, Geneva, 2012-2015.
  • Teaching and Research Assistant in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2008-2012.
  • Associate in Corporate Law, Bomchil, Buenos Aires, 2006-2007.

Academic activities 

  • Visiting Professor in International Investment Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, since 2022.

Memberships

  • International Chamber of Commerce.
  • International Bar Association.
  • Arbitral Women.
  • Comité Español de Arbitraje. 
  • Swiss Arbitration Association. 
  • Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje.
  • European-Latin American Arbitration Association.
  • Women Way in Arbitration Latam.

Speaking engagements

  • ASA Local Group Meeting, “ISDS Reform at UNCITRAL”, Geneva, 2024.
  • ICC Miami Conference: “Arbitrators as Lawmakers”, Miami, 2023.
  • ICC-YAAF, “Building a career in international arbitration and surviving in the attempt”, Buenos Aires, 2023. 
  • International Conference of the Arbitration Library, Arbitration in a Changing World, panel on construction arbitration, Lima, virtual, 2023.
  • CEA, Webinar, The UNCITRAL proposals for the investment treaty reform, 2023.
  • MIDS-ASA Conference on the 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules with Meg Kinnear, 2022.
  • Third Party Funding in International Arbitration, Austral University, Buenos Aires, 2022.
  • ICC Argentina Workshop: Damages in the Construction and Oil and Gas Industries, 2022.
  • Faculty of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) Oral Advocacy Workshop, Geneva 2022. 
  • 2021 PIL.net Global Forum, “Human Rights Claims in Investment Treaty Arbitration”, virtual, 2021.
  • ICC Argentina Workshop: “Transparency under the new ICC Arbitration Rules”, virtual, 2021.
  • 8 M Women Way in Arbitration LATAM, Interview on gender diversity in international arbitration, virtual, 2021.
  • White & Case’s Willem C. Vis Colloquium, “Oral Advocacy”, Geneva, 2021. 
  • The ICSID System, Bar Association of Barcelona, Barcelona, 2013.
  • 26th Annual Workshop of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, “Alternative Means to Enforce Arbitral Awards”, Dallas, 2014.
  • First Conference of the Latin-American Society of International Law, “The Role of Precedent in International Investment Arbitration”, Mexico, 2012.
  • Third WIPO Conference on Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries, “The Way Forward”, Colombia, 2010.

Publications

  • “El arbitraje de inversiones como foro idóneo para la resolución de reclamaciones fundadas en derechos humanos y medioambientales”, Revista Argentina de Arbitraje, 2024. 
  • Interview in Hablando con Ellas. Conversaciones con Veinticuatro Mujeres Protagonistas del Arbitraje, Biblioteca del Arbitraje del Estudio Mario Castillo Freyre (2022), pp.64-70.
  • “Contrat d’état”, Jurisclasseur Droit International, LexisNexis (2019) Fasc. 571-90 (co-authored with J-M. Jacquet).
  • “El rol del precedente y de los estándares en las decisiones de los tribunales de arbitraje de inversión”, Tratados Internacionales y el Arbitraje de inversión: Experiencia colombiana, Editorial Ibáñez (2019).
  • “Orden jurídico arbitral”, Enciclopedia del Arbitraje, Vol. 48, Biblioteca del Arbitraje del Estudio Mario Castillo Freyre (2018), pp. 194-197.
  • Arbitrators as Lawmakers, Kluwer International (2017).
  • “Le précédent arbitral”, Revue de l’arbitrage, Vol. 4 (2017), pp. 1167-1196.
  • “Investment Treaty Knowhow Switzerland”, Global Arbitration Review (2014) (co-author with R. Ugarte and F. Stirnimann).
  • “Pharmaceuticals: A New Frontier in Investment Treaty Arbitration”, Global Arbitration Review (2013) (co-author with R. Ugarte and F. Stirnimann). 
  • “Quelques réflexions sur le statut des tribunaux arbitraux fondés sur des traités en matière d’investissement”, in Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Jean-Michel Jacquet, LGDJ (2013).
  • Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Jean-Michel Jacquet, LGDJ – LexisNexis (2013) (co-editor with M. Kohen).
  • “Alternative (Non-Judicial) Means to Enforce Investment Arbitral Awards Against States” (co-authored with J. Viñuales), in Diplomatic and Judicial Means of Dispute Settlement, Brill (2012), pp. 247-277.
  • “Hacia una jurisprudencia arbitral en el arbitraje de inversiones”, Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, Vol. 12 (2012), pp. 373-420.
  • “Shareholders Action to Claim for Indirect Damages in ICSID Arbitration”, Trade Law & Development, Vol. 2(1) (2010), pp. 87-144.
  • “Los reclamos de accionistas ante el CIADI a la luz de la jurisprudencia arbitral “ Res Publica Argentina, Vol. ½ (2010). 
  • “Double recovery or double dipping: reparations to persons belonging to the same corporate group in investment arbitration”, Perspectives, Vol. 22 (2009).

Honors & Awards 

  • Recognized as foreign expert in Chambers Global (2014), (2015) under Dispute Resolution for Argentina and Switzerland.
  • Prize of the Alumni Association of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies for the best Ph.D thesis in international law of the Graduate Institute in 2015 (ex aequo).
  • 2nd Place at the Frankfurt Investment Moot Court Competition 2011 (Coach of the Graduate Institute Team with F. Perez Aznar).
Dolores Bentolila, arbitrator, counsel, advisor, professor

Education 

  • Ph.D. in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2015
    (Summa cum laude)
  • Master in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2009
  • Law Degree, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, 2005

Admissions

  • Cordoba Argentina 2012

Nationalities

  • Argentinean 
  • Swiss 

Working languages

  • English 
  • Spanish
  • French 

Date of birth

3 july 1980