The Center’s experts judged Russian Rounds at Jessup — 2024
On February 5-11, 2024, the Centers’ experts, Ekaterina Petrenko, Aleksei Petrenko, and Daniil Moshnikov, judged the Russian oral rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. They also met with the participants to present the ICLRC and the opportunities it provides for students and graduates with a major in international law.
Jessup is the world’s largest moot court competition on international law. This year, it was held in St. Petersburg State University and included various activities on international law. The ICLRC was one of the partners and sponsors of the Russian Rounds.
The teams of the HSE (Moscow) and MGIMO reached the final of the Russian stage; the MGIMO team went first.
Our congratulations to the winners!
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Areas of professional expertise: Education In 2008, Aleksei graduated from the IKBFU (Kaliningrad). In 2013, he obtained an LL.M. degree with a specialization in international law from the University of Göttingen (Germany). He also completed an exchange semester at the University of Kiel (Germany). In 2024, the degree of Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.) was awarded following the defence of the dissertation at the University of Göttingen. The dissertation was written in the field of international law (“The Right to Regulate in International Economic Law: Towards a General Theory with Lessons from the GATS” In 2016, Aleksei received the “International Law in the 21st Century” Award from the ICLRC. The previous year, the Society of International Economic Law highly commended his paper on WTO law in an essay competition on international economic law. Professional Experience From 2016 to 2017, Aleksei worked as a research assistant at the Institute of International and European Law at the University of Göttingen. Later, Aleksei joined the WTO Expertise Center in Moscow, where he handled inter-State trade disputes from 2017 to 2019. He was a member of the litigation team that achieved the first win in a WTO dispute initiated by Russia. Aleksei participated in over ten inter-State disputes, including panel and Appellate Body proceedings, representing complainants, respondents and third parties. He also took part in WTO committee meetings and conducted practical seminars on trade law for representatives of government agencies and large businesses. Aleksei has developed and taught law courses at three universities in both Russian and English. In 2022, he joined the School of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) as an Associate Professor, where he teaches subjects related to public international law. Before joining the ICLRC, Aleksei worked with the Center as an expert, and in 2020, he officially became part of the team, focusing on issues linked to public international law.
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Areas of professional expertise: Ekaterina graduated from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Faculty of Law (2017) and later, in 2019, obtained a Master’s degree in private international law from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). She also studied abroad at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany). Besides the ICLRC, Ekaterina is a legal counsel at the RAC at RIMA, where she acts as a tribunal secretary in complex disputes, including international commercial arbitration, under various applicable laws. Ekaterina is also a member of the RAC committee for the technical review of drafts of final awards and orders, and is actively working to strengthen the RAC rules and procedures (i.e. she has contributed to the adoption of the 2021 RAC Arbitration Rules and prepared guides for arbitrators on different aspects of arbitration). As part of her expert work, Ekaterina analyzes the ISDS reform (UNCITRAL Working Group III) and drafts legal opinions as well as participates in research projects on various issues of public international law. Previously, Ekaterina worked in the Office of the Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation), tasked with implementation of ECtHR judgments into the Russian legal system, and also did an internship at the Council of Europe. Ekaterina also interned at an arbitral institution and a high-ranking law firm in Malaysia, where she gained skills in working with English law, commercial and investment disputes. She is fluent in Russian and English, as well as French and German at an intermediate level.
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Areas of professional expertise:
• public international law;
• theory of general international law;
• law of international treaties;
• international health law.
Daniil graduated from the Institute of Law of the Baltic Federal University, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degree in law. He received his post-graduate degree at the School of International Law at the HSE University. Daniil has publications in Russian and foreign peer-reviewed journals.
Prior to joining the ICLRC, he worked at a law firm. Over three years of his post-graduate studies, Daniil had been a lecturer at the HSE University and taught courses related to International law. He also participated in the “International Law in the Digital Age” research and study group.
Daniil was an assistant to Mr. E. Zagaynov on 75th Session of International Law Commission.
Fluent in Russian and English.