2017 - fdimoot.org · skadden foreign direct investment international arbitration moot founders...
TRANSCRIPT
2017 Foreign Direct Investment
International Arbitration Moot Hosted at Suffolk University Law School
Case Committee Each year's FDI Moot Case Committee begins its work the preceding June. Liaising with the FDI Moot's Board and Organisers, it develops a fact scenario and procedural background. Generally, the case evolves on the basis that the home and host State are parties to an IIA (BIT, MIT, etc), the New York Convention of 1958 and the Washington (ICSID) Convention of 1965.Generally, each year's case will involve one or two "procedural" issues (e.g. jurisdiction, admissibility, interim measures, disqualification of arbitrator) and one or two "substantive" issues (e.g. expropriation, denial of justice, discriminatory treatment, violation of fair and equitable treatment and/or full protection and security standards). The Case Committee submits its final draft to the FDI Moot Organisers and Board for approval at the end of the preceding year, and the case is then published in February each year. The Case Committee remains responsible for responding to any requests for clarification (if scheduled) between June and August of each year.
The 2017 FDI Moot case considers how Mercuria, a State faced with a "greyscale" epidemic, has treated a foreign investor, patent-holder of the active ingredient in an effective greyscale treatment, by first breaching a supply agreement, which was the basis for the investor's production facility investments in Mercuria, and failing to enforce the consequent arbitration award and by then granting a compulsory license to a state-owned manufacturer.
Bench Brief Committee Each year's FDI Moot Bench Brief Committee begins its work in March. It analyses the fact scenario and procedural background of the case and may submit confidential requests for clarification to the Case Committee (contemporaneously with the requests of the competing teams) and may liaise with the Case Committee and the Organisers regarding proposed responses to the requests. The FDI Moot's Bench Brief Committee submits its final draft of the Bench Brief to the Organisers one week before the memorial deadline each year. The Bench Brief Committee may submit a revised draft one week before the orals if it believes the teams' memorials have raised relevant, not previously considered arguments.
Christian Campbell
Nikoletta Chalikopoulou Lynette Lee Anand Mohan Liana Stoica
Liana Stoica Nikoletta
Chalikopoulou Lynette Lee Anand Mohan Namit Oberoy
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 2 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Teams University / Institution Country Alias Comp
Adamson University Philippines CLXP
Africa Nazarene University Kenya Koroma G*
Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU) Iran (Islamic Republic of) Tarazi CLXG
Amity Law School, Delhi, GGSIPU India Rau G
Carlos III University Spain Waldock G
Catholic University of Eastern Africa Kenya CLXA
Charles University Czech Republic Trindade G
De La Salle University, College of Law Philippines Guerrero G
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Viet Nam Lacharriere G
Dr. Ram manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team A India Fleischhauer S
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team B India Alkhasawneh S
ELTE Law School Hungary Carneiro G
Externado University of Colombia Colombia Elias G
Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia Tanaka G
Far Eastern University, Institute of Law Philippines McNair G
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Fabela G
FGV São Paulo Law School Brazil Crawford G
Gujarat National Law University India Hackworth G
Handong International Law School Korea (Republic of) Bennouna P
Haramaya University College of Law Ethiopia Ladreit G
Harvard Law School United States Gros G
Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Law Indonesia CLXP
Hidayatullah National Law University India Basdevant S
Higher School of Economics Russian Federation Barros G*
Ho Chi Minh City University of Law Viet Nam Alvarez P
IIR, KNU, International Law Department Ukraine CLXG
Institute of Law, Nirma University India Wellington S
Istanbul Sehir University Turkey Lachs G
Jagiellonian University Poland Xue G
JKUAT, Law School, Karen Campus Kenya Erskine A*
Kabarak University Faculty of Law Kenya CLXA
Kenya School of Law Kenya Robinson G
KHU university Iran (Islamic Republic of) CLXI
King's College London United Kingdom Simma G
Kisii University, Faculty of Law Kenya Erskine2 A
Kyoto University, Faculty of Law Team A Japan Onyeama P
Kyoto University, Faculty of Law Team B Japan Bedjaoui P
Lagos State University Nigeria CLXA
Lloyd Law College India Mawdsley S
Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation Ugon G
Masaryk University Czech Republic Koretsky G
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
MGIMO-University Russian Federation Alfaro G
Mount Kenya University Kenya Yewdall A
Murdoch University, School of Law Australia Winiarski G
NALSAR University of Law India CLXS
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece Armand G
National Law Institute University (NLIU) India Bustamante S
National Law School of India University India Jennings G
National Law University Jodhpur India Keith G
National University of Advanced Legal Studies India Skotnikov G
National University of Lesotho Lesotho Shi G
NEA - Northern Center of Arbitration Studies Brazil Ago CLXG
New York University School of Law United States CLXG
Paris Bar School France Hsu G
Pepperdine University School of Law United States Aguilar G
Pontifical Catholic of São Paulo Brazil Jessup G
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Camara G
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab India Fitzmaurice S
Renmin University of China China Cordova P
Riara University, Faculty of Law Kenya Arechaga A
Russian State University of Justice Russian Federation Singh G
Sadra Institute of Higher Education, Faculty of law Iran (Islamic Republic of) Morozov CLXI
Saint Petersburg State University Russian Federation Visscher G
San Beda College Philippines Zoricic P
School of international relations Iran (Islamic Republic of) Zhengyu CLXI
School of Law, Christ University India CLXS
Seoul National University team #1 Korea (Republic of) Ajibola P
Seoul National University team #2 Korea (Republic of) Petren P
Shanghai University of Political Science and Law China El-Khani P
Suffolk University Law School United States Rivero G
Symbiosis Law School, Pune India El-Erian S
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Ukraine Forster CLXG
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Team A Ukraine CLXG
Tehran University, College of Farabi Iran (Islamic Republic of) CLXI
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law Hong Kong, China (SAR) Pathak G
Tribhuvan university, Faculty of law Nepal CLXS
Tsinghua University, School of Law China Klaestad G
Universidad de Buenos AIres Argentina Bravo G
Universidad de San Andrés Argentina Lipton G
Universidad del Rosario Colombia Castro G
Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Khan G
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 4 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Universitas Gadjah Mada Indonesia Amor G
Universitas Pelita Harapan Indonesia Higgins G
Universitas Tarumanagara, Faculty of Law Indonesia Bengzon P
University of Barcelona, IELPO LL.M. Spain Tarassov G
University of Benin Nigeria CLXA
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law Romania CLXG
University of Dar es Salaam, School of Law Tanzania (United Republic of) Badawi A
University of Gondar, School of Law Ethiopia Cancado CLXA
University of Halle-Wittenberg Germany Baxter G
University of Houston Law Center United States Mo G
University of International Business and Economics China Gaja G
University of Miami, School of Law United States Yusuf G
University of Michigan United States CLXG
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Canada Tomka G
University of Passau Germany Ruda G
University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Civil Law Philippines Golunsky P
University of Sultan Zainal Abidin Malaysia Buergenthal P
University of Tehran Iran (Islamic Republic of) CLXI
University of the Philippines College of Law Philippines CLXP
University of Warsaw Poland Pinto G
University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe CLXA
WB National University of Juridical Sciences India Gevorgian S
Yonsei University Law School Korea (Republic of) Ammoun P
S=South Asia Regional A=Africa Regional
P=Asia Pacific Regional G=Global Rounds
CXL=Cancellation/No-Show *=written only
Regional Rounds
Organisers
Africa Nazarene University is the host and local organiser of the Africa Regional Orals, hosted in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kachwaha and Partners is the host and local organiser of the South Asia Regional Oral, hosted in New Delhi, India.
The Korean Commercial Arbitration Board is the local organiser of the Asia Pacific Regional Orals, hosted in Seoul, Korea (Republic).
Arbitrators Nairobi, New Delhi and Seoul Saubhagya Agarwal
Aayush Agarwala
Ashish Ahluwalia
Tony Andriotis
Julius Angwenyi
Imam Arouna
Raghavendra Bajaj
Samar Bansal
Jayant Bhatt
Vivekanada Bommineni
Filip Boras
N. Jansen Calamita
Ji Hoon Cha
Prakhar Chauhan
Michael Chirchir
Min Kyong Cho
Una Cho
Cho Choi
Seung Kyu Choi
Kyongwha Chung
Hyerim Chung
James Claxton
Jayems Dhingra
Timothy Dickens
James Ding
Utkarsh Divyankar
Tony Dymond
Miguel Jaime Encarnacion
Ning Fei
Robert Francis Fernandez
Andrew Foo
Mark Goodrich
Mehul Gupta
Shotaro Hamamoto
Jin Soo Han
Min Young Han
Nany Hur
Tomoko Ishikawa
Aniket Jain
Sneha Jain
Ankit Jaiswal
Don Jeon
Julia Eunjin Ji
Woo-Jung Jon
Jung Dae Joo
Deepak Joshi
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
Naman Joshi
Haneul Jung
Samar Kachwaha
Raghav Kacker
Harrison Hiewon Kang
Akanksha Kaul
Hansa Kaul
Mohit Khubchandani
Ji Un Kim
Jihyung Kim
Jinhee Kim
Jin-uk Joseph Kim
John K. Kim
John M. Kim
Joongi Kim
Junu Kim
Kyeong Catherine Kim
Myung Woo Kim
Paul J. Kim
Rieu Kim
SaeYoun Kim
Sejin Kim
Sung Youl Kim
Sunyoung Kim
Woojae Kim
Yongsang Kim
Suadat Kirmani
Hyunyang Koo
Rahul Kriplani
Kritika Krishnamurthy
Vaibhav Kumar
Aakanksha Kumar
Jang Wook Mike Kwon
Eunjai Lee
Hangil Lee
Hanyong Lee
Hyun Jung Lee
Myung Kwang Lee
Seungmin Lee
Gabriel Lentner
Ayong Lim
Aakashi Lodha
Jessica Los Banos
Karan Luthra
Sun Hyung Lyou
Arpit Maheshwari
Michael McClure
Shreyas Mehrotra
Young Hoon Mok
Mercy Muendo
Dennis Ndambo
Juliana Njiriri
Mukami Nthiga
Ken Obura
Seung Jin Oh
Colbert Ojiambo
Duncan Ojwang
Anuroop Omkar
Shul Park
Tae Jung Park
Mehul Parti
Chanan Parwani
Diggaj Pathak
Adit Pujari
Abhishek Puri
Edward Purnell
Ramiila L. Quinto
Ravi Ragunath
Soh Young Rhee
Maxencio Rios, Jr.
Kapil Rustagi
Sanjana Saddy
Jai Sahai
Shivi Sanyam
Nooreen Sarna
Satyajit Sarna
Avinash Sharma
Shweta Sharma
Jaehoon Shim
Donghwan Shin
Hi-Taek Shin
Hyun-Ju Shin
Aditya Singha
Nikhil Singhvi
Ashwath Sitaraman
Divyanshu Srivastava
Bhaskar Subramanium
Mira Sun
Aditya Swarup
Christopher Tahbaz
Ashish Tiwari
Young Shin Um
Ankit Vijaywargiya
Robert Wachter
Alfred Wu
Chung Yoon Yang
Sharon Chong Tze Ying
Edward Yoo
Catherine Yoon
Sejong Youn
Skeleton Brief Judges
Amel Abdallah
Nirmit Agrawal
Katrina Aguila
Nicolas Alarcon Loayza
Abhishek Babbar
Andrius Bambalas
Zaira Bamberger
Carolina Bernal
Wan Mohd Asnur Bin Wan Jantan
Martin Canepa
Bernardo Cartoni
Damien Charlotin
Siyuan Chen
Nawazish Choudhury
Ana Coimbra Trigo
Estefania Contreras
Sebastian Coulon Bauer
Ionela Cuciureanu
Pierre Daureu
William DeGarmo
Jayems Dhingra
Kyle Dickson-Smith
Tzvetelina Dimitrova
Arran Dowling Hussey
Derya Durlu Gürzumar
David Earnest
Arno Eisen
Frederico Favacho
Andrew Foo
Daniel Felipe Cristobal Garcia Clavijo
Ana Gerdau de Borja
Gaurav Goyal
Orlando Jose Guterres Costa, Jr
Emily Hay
Brian Haynes
Duarte Henriques
Juan Herrera
Claudiu Ignat
Dimitrios Ioannidis
Zafar Iqbal
Noelia Giselle Irisarri Gonzalez Deibe
Dominika Jedrzejczyk
Marcin Kaldunski
Ben Kappelman
Waqar Saeed Khan
Kritika Khanijo
Shruti Khanijow
Nikita Kondrashov
Alexander Korobeinikov
Lea Haber Kuck
Amélie Landriault
Lukasz Lasek
Hangil Lee
Ayong Lim
Athenaís Linhares Moreira
Jessica Los Banos
Silvia Marchili
Marcin Menkes
Garima Mitra
Guillermo Moro
Lisa B. Morris
Bogdan-Florin Nae
Olga Nartova
Mateo Noseda
Namit Oberoy
Joshua Offenhartz
Ijeoma Ononogbu
Dragan Psodorov
Ramiila L. Quinto
Philip Ray
Anjanette Raymond
Julio César (h) Rivera
John David Roberson
John D. Roesser
Daniela Rojas
Anastasia Rusinova
Tara Sallar
Irina Samodelkina
Mustafa Senel
Ksenia Shestakova
Pritanshu Shrivastava
Sudipto Sircar
Ivo Skolil
Mara Smith
Anna Sokolovskaya
Claire Stockford
Alexander Sysoev
Santiago Torreira
Gökce Uyar
Thomas T. Watson
Qian Wu
Plamen Yotov
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 6 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Best Oral Teams Asia Pacific
Team Alias Country 1. Universiti Teknologi Mara,
Faculty of Law Herczegh Malaysia
2. Far Eastern University, Institute of Law
Quintana Philippines
3. University of International Business and Economics
Shahabuddeen PR China
The FDI Moot distributed a total of €6000 in prize money to the top 3 teams in the Asia Pacific Regionals for their participation at the Global Orals in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
South Asia
Team Alias City, Country
1. Gujarat National Law University Weeramantry Gandhinagar, India
2. National Law University Jodhpur Vereshchetin Jodhpur, India
Semi Finalists
Amity Law School, GGSIPU Aranguren Delhi, India
National Law School of India University Bhandari Bangalore, India
Africa
Team Alias Country
1. Kenya School of Law Spender Kenya
2. African Nazarene University Evensen Kenya
Kenya School of Law was presented with a cash award of US$1500 provided by
.
The winners of the Regional Orals each received a copy of the Kluwer publication “Arbitral Awards as Investments: Treaty Interpretation and the Dynamics of International Investment Law”.
Best Claimant Briefs Asia Pacific Team Alias Country
1. Far Eastern University, Institute of Law Quintana Philippines
2. Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA Herczegh Malaysia
3. Seoul National University team #2 Petren Korea (Republic of)
South Asia Team Alias City, Country
1. Dr. Ram manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team A Fleischhauer Lucknow, India
2. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar Weeramantry Gandhinagar, India
3. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team B Alkhasawneh Lucknow, India
Africa Team Alias Country
1. National University of Lesotho Azevedo Lesotho
2. JKUAT, Law School, Karen Campus Erskine Kenya
3. African Nazarene University Evensen Kenya
Gujarat National Law School
Universiti Teknologi Mara Faculty of Law
Kenya School of Law
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
Best Respondent Briefs Asia Pacific Team Alias Country
1. Renmin University of China Cordova PR China
2. De La Salle University, College of Law Spiropoulos Philippines
3. Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Lacharriere Viet Nam
South Asia Team Alias City, Country
1. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team B Alkhasawneh Lucknow, India
2. National Law University Jodhpur Vereshchetin Jodhpur, India
3. Dr. Ram manohar Lohiya National Law University, Team A Fleischhauer Lucknow, India
Africa Team Alias Country
1. National University of Lesotho Azevedo Lesotho
2. Riara University, Faculty of Law Arechaga Kenya
3. JKUAT, Law School, Karen Campus Erskine Kenya
5th Annual Asia Pacific Regional Rounds
5th
Annual South Asia Regional Rounds
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 8 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Highest Ranked Teams Asia Pacific Team Alias Country
1. The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law Abraham China (SAR)
2. De La Salle University, College of Law Spiropoulos Philippines
3. Far Eastern University, Institute of Law Quintana Philippines
South Asia Team Alias City, Country
1. Gujarat National Law University Weeramantry Gandhinagar, India
2. Amity Law School, GGSIPU Aranguren Delhi, India
3. Hidayatullah National Law University Basdevant Naya Rajpur, India
Africa
Team Alias Country
1. National University of Lesotho Azevedo Lesotho
2. Kenya School of Law Spender Kenya
3. Africa Nazarene University Evensen Kenya
Best Advocates Asia Pacific Preliminary Rounds Final Match Nga Yee Ng
Abraham, The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law Ahmad Izzuddin Zahidi
Quintana, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Faculty of Law
South Asia Preliminary Rounds Final Match
Sanchit Suri
Weeramantry, Gujarat National Law University
Garima Kedia
Weeramantry, Gujarat National Law University
Africa Preliminary Rounds Final Match
Mamohau Thetsane
Azevedo, National University of Lesotho
Kwaka Meshack Asino
Spender, Kenya School of Law
Mr Meshack Asino received a cash prize for travel/accommodation sponsored by Alexandra (Xander) A.K. Meise, Adjunct Professor International Human Rights Law Georgetown University Law Center.
National University of Lesotho
2nd Annual Africa Regional Rounds
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
Global Rounds
Memorial Judges
Christopher J. Abbott Katrina Aguila Liliia Akkuchukova
Nicolas Alarcon Loayza José Manuel Alvarez Zárate Felipe Aragón Barrero
Andrius Bambalas Zaira Bamberger Jessica Beess und Chrostin Carolina Bernal Mohd Asnur BinWan Jantan Andrea K. Bjorklund Jeremy Bloomenthal Petra Butler Maria Roseli Candido Martin Canepa
Bernardo Cartoni Panagiotis Chalkias Patrick Childress Emily Choo
Ana Coimbra Trigo Estefania Contreras Sebastian Coulon Bauer Ionela Cuciureanu
Pierre Daureu William DeGarmo Jayems Dhingra
Tzvetelina Dimitrova Arran Dowling Hussey Derya Durlu Gürzumar Arno Eisen Miguel Jaime Encarnacion István Erdos Frederico Favacho
Robert Francis Fernandez Andrew Foo Anita Garnuszek
Diego Brian Gosis Sergiy Gryshko Sagar Gupta
Richard Happ Emily Hay Sonja Heiskala James Hosking
Dimitrios Ioannidis Zafar Iqbal Marcin Kaldunski Carol Kalinoski
Kritika Khanijo Elena Lapina Pedro Martini Marcin Menkes Garima Mitra Guillermo Moro
Lisa B. Morris Pavel Myslivskiy Bogdan-Florin Nae Mateo Noseda
John Nyanje Joshua Offenhartz Ekaterina Plokhenko
Dragan Psodorov Ramiila L. Quinto Anjanette Raymond
Andrew Riccio Maxencio Rios, Jr. Julio César (h) Rivera Mauro Rubino-Sammartano Anastasia Rusinova Iurii Rybak
Levent Sabanogullari
Tara Sallar Irina Samodelkina Veronica Sandler Humeyra Seles Mustafa Senel Ksenia Shestakova
Sudipto Sircar John Siwiec Ivo Skolil Mara Smith
Anna Sokolovskaya Krystyna Sowa Claire Stockford
Liana Stoica Santiago Torreira Patrycja Treder Gökce Uyar Oksana Varakina Herman Verbist Gabriela Wallau Rodrigues Thomas T. Watson Qian Wu Plamen Yotov William A. Zucker
Arbitrators
Christopher J. Abbott Jacob Adams Emilia Anagbogu
Alan Anderson Zaira Bamberger David Bastian
Jessica Beess und Chrostin Lisa Bohmer Veranika Buracheuskaya Christian Campbell Maria Roseli Candido Martin Canepa Rodrigo Carè
Patrick Childress Thomas S. Clifton Anthony Daimsis Sabrina DeFabritiis Michael B. Devine Ahmed Elsisi István Erdos Lorraine Finlay
Sandra Friedrich Daniel Felipe Cristobal Garcia Clavijo
Christopher Gibson Ellen Gilley Diego Brian Gosis Brian Haynes Sonja Heiskala James Hosking Peng Hou
Dimitrios Ioannidis Tamila Jensen Natalia Kabacinska
Simon Klopschinski Michal König Ksenia Koroteeva
Brian Kotick Athina Kotsia Georgios Kouvaras Madina Lokova
Carol Ludington
Ishaan Madaan Relebohile Makamane Stephen D. Mau
Maks Mencin Allan Moore Matthew Morantz Timothy G. Nelson Daniel Ogunbote Aliki-Athina Papanastasiou William W. Park
Sandy Pesiridis Nicolas Pralica Ramiila L. Quinto
Julio César (h) Rivera Victoria Rodriguez Goyena Julie A. Ryan
Iurii Rybak Akshay Sapre Albert Simiyu Murambi Yvete Marie Sola
Michal Stanek
Liana Stoica Lena Sutanovac Peter Sutton Martin Svec Mohamed Sweify Sarah Swerdloff Marek Szolc Daniel Tavela Luis Francis Tom Temprosa Alex Toso
Anthony Vanduzer Michael Vigorito Adriana Viloria Severiche
Gabriela Wallau Rodrigues David Wirth Devin Woolf Eugenie Wrobel Rafael Xavier Aleksandra Zanowska William A. Zucker
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 10 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Best Oral Team
Team Alias Country
1. National Law School of India University Jennings India
2. Charles University Trindade Czech Republic
3. Lomonosov Moscow State University Ugon Russia
National Law School of India University received an award by Investor State Law Guide and the Skadden Arps Trophy.
Highest Ranked Team
Team Alias Country
1. University of Ottawa Tomka Canada
2. Universidad de Buenos Aires Bravo Argentina
3. De La Salle University Guerrero Philippines
University of Ottawa received a US$1500 cash award provided by Baker McKenzie and an award by Investor State Law Guide.
Universidad de Buenos Aires and De La Salle University each received a copy of the Kluwer publication “Arbitral Awards as Investments: Treaty Interpretation and the Dynamics of International Investment Law”.
The Highest Ranked Team's overall score is the sum of the points for Memorial for Claimant and Respondent and points granted to the team's oralists during the Preliminary Rounds.
Best Claimant Memorial
Team Alias Country
1. Paris Bar School Hsu France
2. University of Halle-Wittenberg Baxter Germany
3. Federal University Rio Grande do Sul Fabela Brazil
Best Respondent Memorial
Team Alias Country
1. National University of Advanced Legal Studies Skotnikov India
2. University of International Business and Economics
Gaja PR China
3. University of Ottawa Tomka Canada
The top three ranked claimant and respondent memorials have been published in TDM Journal 5 (2017).
Best Advocates Global Rounds Preliminary Rounds Final Match
Jolene Hansell Tomka University of Ottawa Thomas Wälde Best Advocate Award and Manuela Beltrán Best Woman Advocate Award
Aditya Mehta Jennings National Law School of India University
Ms. Hansell received a 12-month free subscription of the ICSID Review from OUP, a US$400 cash award provided by José Manuel Álvarez Zárate, and the Kluwer publication “ICSID after 50 Years”
Mr. Mehta received a 6-month free subscription of the ICSID Review from OUP, and the Kluwer publication “The First 50 Years of ICSID”
National Law School of India University
University of Ottawa
Paris Bar School
National University of Advanced Legal Studies
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
Honourable Mention Advocates
María Pía Alais (Lipton, Universidad de San Andrés), Edwin Roberto Concepcion* (Guerrero, De La Salle University), Juan Ignacio Gonzalez Mayer (Bravo, UBA), Angeliki Kolokotsa (Armand, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Agata Kruczyk (Pinto, University of Warsaw), Angelica Maria Perdomo Luna (Castro, Universidad del Rosario), Julia Therese Pineda (Guerrero, De La Salle University), Manika Sadarangani (Higgins, Universitas Pelita Harapan), Andrew Shinnick (Winiarski, Murdoch University), Tanesha Singh (Rau, Amity Law School, Delhi, GGSIPU)
OUP provided Honourable Mention Advocates with a 3-month free subscription to the ICSID Review. *not pictured
Group Photo 2017
M.P. Alais, J.I. Gonzalez Mayer, A. Kruczyk, A. Kolokotsa, A.M. Perdomo Luna, J.T. Pineda, M. Sadarangani, A. Shinnick, T. Singh
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 12 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Coaches Lewiandy - (P)
Prachi Aggarwal (G)
Angwenyi Aggrey (A)
Daniel Alemayehu (G)
Antonio Aljure Salame (G)
Felipe Aragón Barrero (G)
Paula Arias (G)
Luis Baquedano (G)
Iuliia Beketova (G)
Lisa Bohmer (G)
Yusuf Çaliskan (G)
Michelle Carasso (G)
Kevin Crow (G)
Anthony Daimsis (G)
Miguel Jaime Encarnacion(P)
Istvan Erdos (G)
Ivette Esis (G)
Juan Carlo Fadera (G)
Luis Renato Ferreira da Silva (G)
Lorraine Finlay (G)
Ana Flávia Furtado (G)
Anita Garnuszek (G)
Covadonga Garralda Cancer (G)
Sevindzh Gasanova (G)
Ricardo Gerhard Tuma (G)
Farnush Ghadery (G)
Diego Gosis (G)
Anastasios Gourgourinis (G)
Sagar Gupta (G)
Shotaro Hamamoto (P)
Shotaro Hamamoto (P)
Carolina Hess (G)
Pablo Jaroslavsky (G)
Natalya Kondrakhina (G)
Ksenia Koroteeva (G)
Athina Kotsia (G)
Georgios Kouvaras (G)
Catherine Koyier (A)
Daria Kuznetsova (G)
Michal König (G)
Dmitry Labin (G)
Tariku Lake (A)
Jana Lamas de Mesa (G)
Kerry Lee (P)
Amanda Lee (G)
Feng Hua Li (P)
Athenais Linhares
Moreira (G)
Robert MacLean (G)
Relebohile Makamane (G)
Garv Malhotra (G)
Madhav Mallya (S)
Aayush Marwah (G)
Shahrizal Md Zin (G)
Shiro mogeni (A)
Tuyana Molokhoeva (G)
Allan Moore (G)
Eric Ng (G)
Nguyen Thao Vy Ngo (P)
Juliana Njiriri (G)
Aliki-Athina
Papanastasiou (G)
Pablo Parrilla (G)
Nur Amani Pauzai (P)
Reid Pennebaker (G)
Hans Peter (P)
Nicolas Pralica (G)
Edward Purnell (P)
Luísa Quintão (G)
Rob Real (G)
Maxencio Rios (P)
Julio Cesar Rivera (G)
Vivian Daniele Rocha Gabriel (G)
Victoria Rodriguez
Goyena (G)
María Laura Rozan (G)
Sarilnezam Salleh (G)
Marco Sana (G)
Veronica Sandler (G)
Marco Schnabl (G)
Camila Simão (G)
Albert Simiyu Murambi (G)
Harald Sippel (G)
James Smith (G)
Pedro Souza (G)
Michal Stanek (G)
Mariia Strekalova (G)
Martin Svec (G)
Marek Szolc (G)
John Henry Tamayo (P)
Daniel Tavela (G)
Tom Francis Temprosa (G)
Irwin Uj Ooi (G)
Sergey Usoskin (G)
Anthony Vanduzer (G)
Deva Villanúa Gómez (G)
Adriana Viloria
Severiche (G)
Gabriela Wallau Rodrigues(G)
Emanuel Wanat (G)
Jane Willems (G)
J Williams (G)
Aleksandra Zanowska (G)
Lukasz Zbyszynski (G)
Ci Zhang (P)
Wen Liang Zhang (P)
Students Yolla - (P)
Lemuel Abishua (A)
Metawi Abold (G)
Cynthia Adjain (G)
Karlyn Mae Agcaoili (P)
Athif Ahmed (G)
Ece Akincibay (G)
Serhat Aksal (G)
María Pía Alais (G)
Graciana Alves Scarpellini Campos (G)
Juan Ignacio Amado Aranda (G)
Happiness amakobe (A)
Jenna Andrews (G)
Guido Antolini (G)
Refah Gagrag Anyar (G)
Ben Aremon (G)
Asegidew Asegilitew (G)
Aida Faralyana Azlan (G)
Sonakshi Bannerjee (S)
Marche Bantum (G)
Loverly Barquez (P)
Vitória Barzoni (G)
Menen Bashe (G)
Nora Bellec (G)
Jecko Bello (P)
Carson Bennett (G)
Rohit Bhattacharya (S)
Jue Bian (G)
Nehal Binani (S)
Daniel Bioza (G)
Miguel Blanco Cocho (G)
Andréa Bodanese (G)
Bruna Braga Luz Oliveira (G)
Martin Brezina (G)
Ilan Brun-Vargas (G)
Evgenii Bulatov (G)
Veronika Bulatova (G)
Leticia Maria Camargo (G)
Andrea Carbone (G)
Benjamin Carroll (G)
Floricel Castro (G)
Younghye Cha (P)
Felipe Chads Azeredo (G)
Kei Fung Chan (G)
Dwiky Chandra (P)
Ang Cheong Chek (P)
Sofya Cherkasova (G)
Juneyoung Choi (P)
Seoyoung Chung (P)
Victoria Coelho Dutra (G)
Edwin Roberto Concepcion (G)
Michael Connor (G)
Marihu Contreras (G)
Heather Costelloe (G)
Leonardo Crivano (G)
Kylie Kaur Dado (G)
Xinyue Dai (G)
Julia de Castro Velasco (G)
Lucia Del Valle Lietti (G)
Michael Demetrius (G)
Sakshi Dhapodkar (S)
Yashowardhan Dixit (S)
Demeter-Marcelle Djivelekas (G)
Hung Do Duy (G)
Aditya DSouza (G)
Gabriela Du Plessis (G)
Yuriy Dubas (G)
Kinga Duda (G)
Jeanne Pauline Dumawal (P)
Tariku Eltamo (A)
Zeynep Nefise Emre (G)
Saeid Ershadi (I
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
Kristian Ezhov (G)
Leonardo F. Souza (G)
Xiaoning Fan (P)
Yiwei Fang (G)
Olga Fateeva (G)
May Feng (G)
Jana Fiberg (G)
Aliénor Fournier Montgieux (G)
Mateusz Fraszka (G)
Helen May Frias (G)
Stéphanie Gagné (G)
Katarzyna Gajda (G)
María del Rosario Galardi (G)
Jean Claudette Galvez (P)
Rachel Ganem (G)
Ashley Gebicke (G)
Steve Gerry (A)
Nick Gersh (G)
David Ghably (G)
Marcel Gießler (G)
Grace gitonga (A)
Khyati Goel (G)
Matthew Gonnella (G)
Camille Angelica Gonzales(P)
Juan Ignacio Gonzalez Mayer (G)
Anastasiia Goriacheva (G)
Samprathi Gowda (S)
Sidharath Goyal (S)
Karl Derrick Guevarra (P)
Ana Guimarães Ferreira (G)
Mengxian Guo (P)
Kishan Gupta (S)
Himanshu Gupta (S)
Manika Gupta (S)
Shreyangshi Gupta (S)
Chayeun Ha (P)
Jennifer Halim (P)
Jolene Hansell (G)
Samuel Evan Hardy (G)
Nabilatul Huda Hasnul Tahar (G)
Ignacio Heidenreich (G)
Juliana Hernandez Estupiñan (G)
Carly Herosian (G)
Matthew Hong (P)
Yidan Huang (P)
Ahmad Iqbal (G)
Ryuji Ito (P)
Prakshal Jain (G)
Kevin James (S)
Dooyoung Jeon (P)
Soumya Jha (S)
Kim JONG SUN (P)
Julia Joseph-Louisia (G)
Musharraf Kadirova (G)
Josephine Kairo (G)
Amenti Kajela (G)
Pranjal Kalantri (S)
Louise Kalista Iskandar (G)
Hee Ku Kang (P)
Jacinta Kang'ethe (A)
Seina Kanyama (P)
Esther Karanja (A)
Sourav Karmakar (S)
Zoya Karpova (G)
Garima Kedia (G)
Faith Kerubo (A)
Aanchal Kesari (S)
Mohiminol Khandaker (G)
Kartik Khanna (G)
Jinri Kim (P)
Chan Kim (P)
Su Jin Kim (P)
Jahae Kim (P)
Paul Emmanuel Kilasa Kisabo (A)
Nikola Klimova (G)
Junya Kodama (P)
Jason Kohn (G)
Angeliki Kolokotsa (G)
Makiko Komatsu (P)
Anna Kosiakina (G)
Brayden Koslowsky (G)
Jan Kot (G)
Agata Kruczyk (G)
Katarina Krulova (G)
Meenakshi Kumar (S)
Aman Kumar (S)
Yamini Kumar (S)
Ayushi Kushwaha (S)
Yu Hin Kenny Kwok (G)
Han KYUNG WON (P)
Yash Lahoty (G)
Hiu Yat Jeremy Lam (G)
Valerii Lamm (G)
Nan Lan (G)
Raphael Lang Silva (G)
Michelle Laureta (G)
Tran Duc Huy Le (P)
Chaihyun Lee (P)
Barikilign Lera (G)
Artem Levashov (G)
Richard Li (G)
Xiao Yu Liao (P)
Liam Liu (G)
Yun Qing Liu (P)
Xiao Hao Liu (P)
Amir Lohrasbi (I
Andrés Felipe Lucumí Asprilla (G)
Hoang Quy Luong (P)
Gensaku Maeda (P)
Deborah Magnoni (G)
Robert Maina (A)
Mokhoro Makara (G)
Constance Malleville (G)
Priscila Silas Mapinda (A)
Karen Christine Markus (P)
Vusi Mashinini (G)
Priscila Matulaitis Cottarelli (G)
Esther mbungu (A)
Ruth Mehari (A)
Aditya Mehta (G)
Aglaya Melnik (G)
Bernardo Mergár (G)
Kwaka Meshack Asino (G)
Franziska Meyer (G)
Ruoyu Mi (P)
Magdalena Michalska (G)
Fernanda Milnitsky (G)
Cho MIN KYEONG (P)
Armaan Mistry (G)
Christine Monderin (P)
Nthethe Monethi (G)
Martina Monti (G)
Jun Ho Moon (P)
Jose Luis Moreno Palomino (G)
Kenjiro Mori (P)
Natalia Moura (G)
Saathi Mukherjee (S)
Victor Mukhin (G)
Souradeep Mukhopadhyay (S)
Maria Camila Muñoz Alarcón (G)
Kivindyo Munyao (G)
Ernest mwaura (A)
Rosemary John Mzee (A)
Jana Nadtocajeva (G)
Shally Nain (S)
Taisuke Nakano (P)
Lavender Ndunga (A)
Wing Yu Ng (G)
Nga Yee Ng (G)
Huu Hoang Viet Nguyen (P)
Lam Nguyen Bao (G)
Nganga Njeri (G)
Taragwa Nyanganyi (G)
Sami Obama (P)
Georgy Obolentsev (G)
Ayub Okayo (G)
Joji Okuno (P)
Mwimali Ongaro (A)
Godfreygodfrey Orina (A)
Marina Orlando Quesada(G)
Yusuf Islam Özkan (G)
Monica Paladini (G)
Li Pan (G)
Georgia-julia Papadopoulos (G)
Chongmyong Park (P)
Joshua Park (G)
Lukasz Paruzel (G)
Daria Pavlyuchok (G)
Angelica Maria Perdomo Luna (G)
Thuy Mai Trinh Pham (P)
Anh Phan Quynh (G)
Reddy Pawan Kumar (G)
Neha Pilay (S)
Julia Therese Pineda (G)
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 14 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Maksym Podopryhora (G)
Kellie Portie (G)
Parham Pouya (I
Pranay Prakash (G)
Nishant Pratyush (G)
Petr Prochazka (G)
Gradita Maharani Purukan (G)
Maja Pyrzyna (G)
Leiyang Qin (G)
Josiah Quising (G)
Inkyung Ra (P)
Ahmad Zhafir Rahmat (G)
Sarthak raizada (S)
Sankalpa Rajpurohit (S)
Ramya Ramachanderan (G)
Karishma Ramchiary (S)
Sonya Randolph (G)
Sanjana Rao (G)
Aayush Rastogi (S)
Kevin Reddington (G)
Denz Christian Resentes (P)
Laura María Rodríguez González (G)
Natalia Saade (G)
Luis Sachica Velasquez (G)
Manika Sadarangani (G)
Pranjali Sahni (S)
Raagini Sama Sundaram (P)
Aleksandra Samsonova (G)
Laura Sanchotene Guimarães (G)
Isabella Sandy (P)
George Sant Ana Hauschild (G)
Ulisses Santafé Aguiar Pizzolatti (G)
Fernanda Santi (G)
Nur Fathin Amira Sapawi (G)
Muhammad Syafiq Sapri (P)
Riddhiman Sarkar (S)
Sadyant Sasiprabhu (G)
Emily Sauer (G)
Iris Sauvagnac (G)
Mathea Schmitt (G)
Christian Schruff (G)
Sophie Schwarz (G)
Joshua Scoles (G)
Zachary Scott (G)
Muhammed Gökhan Sentürk (G)
Park SEONG YEON (P)
Sachi Shah (S)
Sabrina Sharin (G)
Anastasia Sheyndlina (G)
Arata Shigeno (P)
Andrew Shinnick (G)
Amrita Shivaprasad (G)
Nishtha Shukla (S)
Erik Shum (G)
Jaeyun Sim (P)
Jihyun Sim (P)
Pushkar Singh (S)
Sneha Singh (G)
Tanesha Singh (G)
Kashish Sinha (S)
Veronika Siposova (G)
Inae Siqueira de Oliveira (G)
Naila Gadiza Andriana Sjarif (G)
Maria Skwara (G)
Jan Slajs (G)
Jason Smith (G)
Tracy Smith (G)
Kim SO YEON (P)
Abigail Tabitha Annisa Soemarko (G)
Xiaohui Song (P)
Bendegúz Soós-Nagy (G)
Gabriella Sorrilha (G)
Giulia Spalletta (G)
Nikolaos Stefas (G)
Zuzana Strnadova (G)
Penny Su Ni Ni (P)
Sanchit Suri (G)
Emilia Jasmine Susanto (G)
Helena Svandova (G)
Jan Svoboda (G)
Michal Szczepanski (G)
Farkas Szilasi (G)
Ashwini Kumar Tak (G)
Tomoko Taki (P)
Vladimir Tamargo (G)
Dora Tamas (G)
Barnabas Tanui (G)
Mamohau Thetsane (G)
Mark Thumi (G)
Aakanksha Tiwari (S)
Binh Ton Nu Thanh (G)
Shintaro Torii (P)
Thi Thuy Vy Tran (P)
Anh Tran Viet (G)
Thao Trinh Phuong (G)
Doorva Tripathi (S)
Margarita Tsigkou (G)
André Tunes do Nascimento (G)
Celina Urabayen (G)
Christian Vandergeest (G)
Ginsey Varghese (G)
Karthik Venkatesh (G)
Maria Vlachou (G)
Victoria Volgina (G)
Chaitali Wadhwa (G)
Grace Walia (G)
Josiah Wamwere-Njoroge (A)
Sin Yu Kandice Wan (G)
Violet Wang (G)
Xu Fang Wang (P)
Ishmael warugongo (A)
Krzysztof Wasiewicz (G)
Simon Weber (G)
Rodney Wesonga (A)
Kar Po Clara Wong (G)
Aubrey Xiong (G)
Eileen Xu (G)
Jia Xing Xu (P)
Namrata Yadav (S)
Büsra Emine Yalin (G)
Fatih Furkan Yekeler (G)
Ahmet Yerlikaya (G)
Kok Hang Ken Yeung (G)
Muhlis Ünal (G)
Luis Felipe Yonezawa Fernandes (G)
Hyeongeun Yoon (P)
Oh YOU BIN (P)
Khairunnisa Zaffar (G)
Ahmad Izzuddin Zahidi (G)
Adam Zakrzewski (G)
Yueran Zhao (G)
Laura Ziegler Gonçalves Meirelles (G)
S=South Asia Regional A=Africa Regional P=Asia Pacific Regional G=Global Rounds
Pre Moot Organisers
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Founders
The Thomas Wälde Team Fund In October 2008, Ian Laird and the late Prof. Thomas Wälde initiated a fund to support teams’ participation in the FDI Moot.
We would like to thank the following individuals who responded to the new appeal launched for 2018 (in alphabetical order): Emilia Anagbogu, Andrea Bjorklund, James Hosking, Alexandra Meise, Sophie Nappert, and David Roberson.
In addition, we would like to thank Wilmer Hale without whose assistance Kenya School of Law could not have made it to Boston. And again thank you to Skadden for matching the individual donations. In 2017, over US$8,000 have been distributed among seven teams. For teams from many countries, travel expenses to and accommodation costs at the hearing venue remain significant obstacles.
Sponsors
José Manuel Álvarez Zárate
Skadden Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Page 16 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2017
Alexandra Meise
The 2018 Asia Pacific Regional will be held 22-24 August 2018
The 2018 South Asia Regional will be held 17-19 August 2018
The 2018 Africa Regional will be held 6-7 September 2018
The 2018 FDI Moot Global Orals will be held 8-11 November 2018
at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden