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In 2024, a new international competition dedicated to challenging restrictive measures (sanctions) in the Court of Justice of the European Union was launched. 

On February 11, St. Petersburg State University hosted the Final Round of the Russian National Championship of the Jessup Competition, one of the most prestigious law competitions globally. The HSE University team (Moscow) appeared in the Final Round of the National Championship, and came as a Russian Runner-Up, after the champions of this year, the MGIMO team.

The qualifying oral rounds took place from 25 to 26 November 2023, and already on 23 and 24 December the semi-final and final rounds of the EAEU Dispute Resolution international competition were held.

The oral rounds of the international competition «The Nuremberg Trial and Modern International Law» took place from November 21 to 24. The competition was held by the MITSO International University in Minsk.

In 2023, the team of the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics took part in Willem С. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The HSE Faculty of Law team was represented by 4^th year bachelor students Yaroslava Branovskaya, Maria Eremenko and Anna Zaikina, and also 3^rd year bachelor students Kamilla Makhmudova and Alexey Tolstykh.

On 20 March 2023, Aleksei Petrenko, Associate Professor of the School of International Law, successfully defended his doctoral thesis at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The title of his dissertation is «The Right to Regulate in International Economic Law: Towards a General Theory with Lessons from the GATS». During the defense, Aleksei demonstrated a deep level of knowledge and research skills in his field. He presented original scientific results that received high praise from the doctoral committee.

The HSE Faculty of Law team has successfully taken part in the Russian rounds of the prestigious competition in international law named after F. Jessup (International Law Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition), held from February 1 to 5 in in-person format.

On December 6-7, 2022, the IX Annual International Conference of Young Scientists "Actual Problems of World Politics" was held within the framework of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

The Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot), the most prestigious competition in the field of international investment arbitration, was held in early November.

Lots of students took part in the master-class on 'Legal Writing for International Lawyers' on 12 October 2022. The speaker was Konstantin Mishin, associate at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan, Dyakin & Partners, LL.M. in International Arbitration (American University Washington College of Law).