Curriculum
Raquel Scalcon is a founding partner of the firm, where she leads the practice in consultancy, legal opinions, and expert witness work in complex criminal and sanctioning law cases.
She has been a Professor of Criminal Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in São Paulo since 2019, teaching both undergraduate and graduate programs and actively contributing to the development of future legal scholars and practitioners. Her teaching includes Master’s and Professional Doctorate courses, reflecting her commitment to academic excellence and legal education.
Raquel earned her Law degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) with academic honors (2009). She holds a Master’s in Criminal Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, 2011), which included a summer course in German Criminal Law Theory at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Raquel completed her Ph.D. in Law at UFRGS in 2016, conducting part of her doctoral research at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2014), further strengthening her academic ties with German legal thought.
International engagement has long been a hallmark of her trajectory, particularly in relation to German law. In 2018, she was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, conducting research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. That same year, she also served as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, deepening her expertise in comparative criminal law.
Raquel began teaching over a decade ago, in 2012, when she joined the faculty at UFRGS Law School as a substitute professor of Criminal Law, a role in which she stood out for her dedication and excellence, receiving honorable mentions from all of her undergraduate classes. Today, she continues her academic work as Professor of Criminal Law at FGV São Paulo and as faculty member in the Compliance in Healthcare specialization program at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, where she bridges academic research with applied legal practice.
She is the author of The status of public official in Criminal Law: concept, distinctions and cases (2021, EMAIS), Constitutional Control of Criminal Laws (Lumen Juris, 2018), and Illegality and Punishment (GZ, 2013), as well as co-editor of Concrete problems of economic and corporate criminal law (Marcial Pons, 2023). Her scholarly production is extensive, with articles published both nationally and internationally — in countries such as Germany, Argentina, China, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Portugal, and Turkey — underscoring the reach and influence of her academic work.
As a recognized expert in her field, Raquel is regularly sought after by national and international media to comment on contemporary legal issues. She contributes technical opinion pieces to leading newspapers such as Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo, and Valor Econômico, and is frequently interviewed by major outlets including G1 and other prominent media platforms.
She currently serves as Director of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM) for the 2023–2024 and 2025–2026 terms, having previously served as Deputy Coordinator of the Amicus Curiae Department (2021–2022). She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Humboldt Club (2024–2025), linked to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and has been a member of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung e.V. since 2020. In 2025, she was invited to join the prestigious São Paulo Bar Institute (Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo – IASP), a recognition of her standing within the Brazilian legal community.
Before focusing exclusively on consultancy, Raquel built solid experience in criminal litigation at leading boutique law firms in São Paulo and Porto Alegre. She was recently recognized as one of the most admired criminal law practitioners by Análise Advocacia Regional – Greater São Paulo (2025) and Análise Advocacia Mulher (2025). Her practice was also recommended by The Legal 500 – Latin America (2024). Earlier in her career, she served as a career civil servant (federal court officer) at the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4), where she worked in criminal chambers from 2009 to 2012, an experience that provided her with an in-depth understanding of judicial processes and procedural dynamics.