FIAMC Moscow Pre-Moot

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FIAMC Pre-Moot in Moscow-2022

In 2022 the Moscow Pre-Moot gathered online 55 unique arbitrators all over the world and 18 student teams from Armenia, Austria, China, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, USA and Uzbekistan.

Results

After the completion of two rounds by each participating team and based on the received results, the Moscow Pre-Moot Finale was held between the teams of the American University Washington College of Law and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The tribunal consisting of our distinguished arbitrators Josefa Sicard-Mirabal, Stavros Brekoulakis and Sergey Alekhin decided to award the victory to the team of the American University Washington College of Law (codename in the Pre-Moot – Randolph, members – Lauren Keller, Nora Elmubarak, Gabrielle Feulner) with the best oralist being Gabrielle Feulner.

Conference

The traditional Moscow FIAMC Conference was held online on 04 February 2022. The topics touched upon the controversial issues of investment arbitration and were also related to the FIAMC 2022 Moot Case, divided into two sessions:

Session I. "Yours badfaithfully" - How to Detect the Sabotage in the Process.

Session II. Bond. State Bond: No Time to Define Investments.

The list of our prominent moderators and panelists included:

Timothy Nelson (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), Philippe Pinsolle (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP), Josefa Sicard-Mirabal (Independent Arbitrator, Fordham University School of Law in New York City), Dr Greg Lourie (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP), Dmitri Evseev (Arnold & Porter).

The sessions were moderated by Anna Korshunova (LALIVE) and Dr Crina Baltag, FCIArb (Stockholm University).

The recording of the conference is available here.

Media partners: Transnational Dispute Management+OGEMID, British Institute of International & Comparative Law, Investment & Commercial Arbitration Review.

We are particularly grateful to the Investor-State LawGuide (ISLG) team, who kindly provided the participants of the Pre-Moot with free access to their database and rewarded the winners with a complimentary 1-year subscription.