Claudia Lima Marques is a full Professor of Private International Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul-UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil. World President of the International Association of Consumer Law-IACL (Brussels) and Chair of the ILA's Committee on International Protection of Consumers (London). General Rapporteur of the Federal Senate to update the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code (Law 14.181/2021).
Former President of the BRASILCON-Brazilian Institute of Consumer Law and Policy (Brasilia) and from of ASADIP- Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado (Paraguay).
PhD in Law from Heidelberg, LL.M. from Tübingen, SDJ UFRGS, Expert on European Integration (Sarre). Doctor honoris causa from Giessen, Germany and Savoie Mont-Blanc, France. Lawyer and arbitrator in Porto Alegre (Brazil). Member of the Senate Committee of Jurists responsible for reviewing and updating the Brazilian Civil Code (Bill 4/2025) and to create the Artificial Intelligence Framework Law (Bill 2328/2023).
She is Director of the CDEA-Center for European and German Studies, from DAAD (UFRGS-PUCRS), professor at the PhD UNINOVE (São Paulo), current Editor of the Consumer Law Journal-RDC, and Environmental Law Journal-RDA, both by Thomson Reuters (São Paulo) and the Macau Journal of Brazilian Studies, China. She served as an independent expert at the UN Tourism Commission to elaborate on the International Code for the Protection of Tourists (UNWTO).
Her fields of expertise are Consumer and Contract Law, Private International Law, Protection of the weaker party, Digital Services, Family and Child Law, and Mercosur.