A team consisting of Sanskaar Jain, Manisha Arora, Raushan Kumar and Ayushman Somani from Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam, has qualified for the World Rounds of 14th Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court Competition 2022.

In the National Rounds, co-organized by the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration and NILS on 5 February 2022, the team was amongst the six teams that qualified for the International Rounds to be held between 28 February and 4 March. They will be accompanied by the five other qualifying teams representing India.

The Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court is the oldest and most prestigious student competition in the area of investment protection law. Its focus is on the oral presentation of legal arguments before an arbitral tribunal composed of specialists in the field during a one-week final event which takes place in early or mid-March of every year.

The Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court is unique in that it combines the law of investment protection, one of the most modern and fastest developing areas of international law, with the history of international law and of international trade. In the 14^th Edition of the Competition, the moot problem was based on the Spanish Bankruptcy Case of 1556, when the Spanish Kingdom was undergoing the biggest inflation seen in its history and was defaulting on every loan the Crown had taken, putting the investment market of Continental Europe under great strain.

(This note was shared by Abhinav Anand, Student - DSNLU)