Paulina Rojas is an LL.M. Merit Scholar from Colombia pursuing a degree in International Business and Economic Law with a degree in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. She holds a J.D. and a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. During her undergraduate studies, she worked at a human rights pro bono clinic for migrants and refugees, litigating individual and collective actions. Before Georgetown, she interned at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia at the consular mission in San Francisco, California. 

In 2022, she was the team captain for the Universidad de los Andes team for the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition in WTO law that won that year’s American Round. Currently, she is a Research Assistant for Georgetown’s Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA), where she supports the Center’s portfolio in investment law, primarily in Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Latin America. 

Her academic coursework focuses on trade, investment, dispute resolution, and its relationship with sustainable development in Latin America. She is interested in trade, investment, and issues of development in Latin America