She studied law at the University of Lausanne, where she completed her doctoral degree. She was a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley from 1992 to 1994 and completed her Professorial thesis ("habilitation") at the University of Fribourg in 1996. She is a former deputy judge at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and the Vice-chairman of the Sanction Commission of the SIX Swiss Exchange. She teaches a course on transnational litigation at the University of Fribourg and a course on environmental law at the EPFL. As a lawyer, her practice centers on the areas of international litigation, arbitration, international private law and environmental law.