NYU Law Abroad Staff in Buenos Aires

Florencia Lebensohn

Executive Director, Clinic on Policy Advocacy in Latin America

Florencia Lebensohn directs the Clinic on Policy Advocacy in Latin America.

She is a permanent law clerk at the Supreme Court of Argentina, in the office of Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz, where she handles international law, environmental law and social security matters. Before joining the Court, she practiced international arbitration, public international law and public law at leading firms in Argentina and France.

She is an adjunct professor of Public International Law and International Arbitration at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law, and teaches Administrative Law in the Master's Program in Public Policy at Torcuato Di Tella University. She coaches the University of Buenos Aires teams at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, overall champions in 2016, and at the Concours d'Arbitrage de Paris, overall champions in 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2024.

Florencia holds a PhD in Law from the University of Buenos Aires and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University, where she was a Hugo Grotius Scholar. She then held a fellowship with Professor Georg Nolte, at the time a member of the UN International Law Commission.