Hélène Ruiz Fabri has degrees in law and political science and a Doctorate from the University of Bordeaux. Before becoming Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in 2014, she was professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) of which she has been Dean for four years. She has also been Director of the Joint Institute of comparative law of Paris (UMR de droit comparé - Paris 1/CNRS) for 11 years and Director of the Master 2 Degree Program in International Economic Law. She has published extensively in the fields of WTO Law and International Dispute Resolution, and in Constitutional Law. She taught at the Academy of European Law (Florence) and at the Academy of International Law (The Hague). She also has expertise at the Council of Europe (as a legal consultant on the ratification and the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in East European countries), at the French administration and at the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (as a legal consultant on the cultural diversity).