On February 15, the HSE University Faculty of Law team secured first place at the Moscow Pre-Moot for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The event featured 22 teams from Russia, China, Brazil, India, France, Kazakhstan, and other countries.
On 8 February, MGIMO hosted the final round of the Russian national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, which simulates proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
On 31 January 2025, the Vice-Provost for International Relations of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), Professor Aziz Tuffi Saliba, visited the Faculty of Law at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). The visit aimed to establish and develop cooperation in the fields of science and education.
At the end of last year, HSE University invited several leading higher education organizations of the BRICS countries to bring together efforts to develop legal science and practice for the benefit of BRICS and join the Consortium of BRICS Law Schools. The initiative to create the Consortium was launched by Vadim Vinogradov, the Dean of the Faculty of Law.
HSE University and the social network VK are launching a pilot project to issue NFT diplomas. The diplomas will take the form of digital images with programmed metadata about the graduate, their educational programme, and year of graduation. Graduates of 38 continuing professional education programmes at the Faculty of Law from 2019–2023 will be the first to receive such diplomas. Based on the results of the pilot project, the possibility of implementing the innovation in other faculties and educational programmes will be considered.
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.
On November 5, 2023, another edition of the FDI Moot came to an end. This year more than 150 teams from the leading law schools from around the world participated in the competition. The Global Rounds of the 2023 edition were held in Lucknow, India.
On 15 September 2023, an international conference 'International, National and Corporate Dimension of the ESG-agenda: Does Climate Change Law?' organised by the Faculty of Law was held. This scientific event was one of the first where climate change issues were discussed within a broad interdisciplinary discourse combining legal and economic expertise, international and national law, theoretical research and practical insights, and the approaches of Russian and foreign regulators.
.jpg "The HSE team has successfully participated in the Global rounds of the FDI Moot in India")
