It is our great pleasure to announce that the team of the University of Vienna won the Milan Investment Arbitration Pre-Moot 2024, organized and held by DLA Piper in their offices in Milan, Italy between 10 and 11 May 2024. After competing against several Universities, the team advanced to the finals to compete against the team from Humboldt University Berlin.

The participants Nadine Brunner, Lena Anna Geiersperger, Aleksandra Zofia Lech, and Alina Maresch are very pleased with the outcome after months of hard work and diligent preparation and look forward to the international rounds of the competition which will take place from 11 to 14 June in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court combines investment law and international law with the history of international law. Its focus is on the oral presentation of legal arguments before an arbitral tribunal.

Nektarios Papadimos, Hannah Grandits and Leo Jan Zirwes from the Department of International Law are coaching the team this year.

The Vienna team extends its thanks to external arbitrators, former participants, and colleagues for their feedback, and it is grateful to the University of Vienna, and the sponsors Kopetzki Law, Baker McKenzie, and Zeiler Floyd Zadkovich.