California Arbitration is proud to support the Inaugural Edition of the IntLaw Investment Arbitration Moot, a new international moot court competition dedicated to public international law and investment arbitration. CalArb is pleased to introduce the competition to the California arbitration community and particularly encourages universities across the State to consider participating in the Inaugural Edition.

The IntLaw Moot has recently released the Problem for its Inaugural Edition, All About That Bet v. Kingdom of Trafalgar, marking the beginning of the written phase of the competition. The dispute concerns a sports betting investor affected by regulatory measures relating to consumer solvency, zoning and advertising.

Participating teams will address a range of contemporary questions in investment arbitration, including indirect expropriation and the scope of State regulatory powers, whether a series of contested measures may constitute a composite act, the use of a most-favored-nation clause to invoke fair and equitable treatment contained in a terminated treaty, and the participation of the investor’s home State as a non-disputing treaty Party.

The proceedings are conducted under the SCC Arbitration Rules (2023) and also engage the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration, giving students the opportunity to work with procedural frameworks used in contemporary treaty-based arbitration. The SCC Arbitration Institute and UNCITRAL are among the institutions supporting the Inaugural Edition.

The Global Rounds will take place at the International Arbitration Centre in London from 18 to 22 February 2027, bringing together students, coaches, arbitrators and supporting institutions from around the world. Team registration remains open until 9 November 2026.

For California universities, the competition offers an opportunity to place students in direct contact with an international network of practitioners and institutions while developing written and oral advocacy skills in a realistic investment arbitration setting. CalArb would be delighted to see California represented in London and encourages interested law schools to explore forming a team for the Inaugural Edition.

Further information about the competition, including the Moot Problem and registration, is available at www.intlawmoot.org.