The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy team is looking for a financial support to participate in the rounds of the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court. We are the Kyiv-Mohyla Law School team (“Team”): Oleksandr Plachynta, Kateryna Lazarchuk, Dmytro Izotov, Oleksii Izotov, and Olena Uhryn. Our two coaches are Ms. Iryna Glushchenko and Mr. Mykhailo Soldatenko. We have passed the university internal selection and have been already training for five months. Furthermore, the team became a winner in Kyiv Practice Rounds for the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court. The Frankfurt Moot Court was launched 12 years ago and has become one of the most prestigious moot courts in investor-state dispute settlement. The international rounds will be held in Frankfurt, on 4-8 March 2019. This year, we are thrilled to revive the tradition of Kyiv-Mohyla Law School participating in the competition.Participation in the Frankfurt Moot Court is especially meaningful to us given the ever-rising importance of international investment law and arbitration in Ukraine. Remarkably, this year’s case-study touches on the legal issues central to the protection of Ukrainian investments in the Crimean Peninsula. It is therefore especially important and interesting for us to participate.Moreover, the Frankfurt Moot Court’s elaborate case-studies and high level of evaluation at the international rounds, where only experienced practitioners are admitted, is by far the most efficient way to profoundly immerse us students in the ISDS field. Understandably, as any other moot court, this one is a vehicle to develop our research, legal writing, advocacy, and team-working skills. Furthermore, it is an honour and pleasure for our Team to join the professional network of law students and practitioners from around the globe.Apart from that, we realise that attending pre-moots is an important step in the preparation for the final battle in Frankfurt. The pre-moot allows us to road-test our presentations with the strongest competitors before we present them for evaluation in Frankfurt. The pre-moot our Team is hoping to attend isheld in Paris, as it will be the one to host teams from the law schools that have regularly won this competition in the previous years. We believe this experience will be the most efficient to hone our skills and deliver well in Frankfurt. Unfortunately, Kyiv-Mohyla Law School is not able to support the Team financially. For this reason, we kindly ask for your assistance in financing our Team for the Frankfurt Moot Court. Team members: Oleksandr Plachynta (first left)Oleksandr is a Master's candidate at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a junior associate at Kinstellar focusing on international dispute resolution. He has participated in moot court competitions in both public and private international law. Oleksandr was a part of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy team that won the 39th Telders International Law Moot Court Competition in 2016 (the Hague, the Netherlands). Oleksandr honours traditions - during school years he used to break one of his arms playing basketball every year. Kateryna Lazarchuk (first right)Kateryna is a Master's candidate at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is a Paralegal at Sayenko Kharenko law firm, where her focus is on international trade and arbitration. As a member of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's team, Kateryna participated in the European round of the WTO moot competition in Naples, Italy. She also represented the Youth Department of the Council of Europe as a youth delegate in the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France. As a memory exercise, Kateryna regularly repeats names of all the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. Despite her efforts, she reproduced the full list correctly only twice. Oleksii Izotov (second left)Oleksii is a Master's candidate at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Junior Attorney at AVELLUM with primary focus being on international arbitration and cross-border litigation. In 2018, Oleksii participat
