2020 Results

 Winner

GAURAV NATARAJAN RAMANI

THE MICHAEL MUSTILL ESSAY PRIZE 2020

The winner of the Michael Mustill Essay Prize 2020, sponsored by IDRC in association with St John’s College, Cambridge, has been announced as 

GAURAV NATARAJAN RAMANI,

studying for his LLM in International Business and Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Centre, for his essay entitled: 

‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The General Data Protection Regulation vis-à-vis International Commercial Arbitration’.

The prize-giving dinner that was it have been held in London on 10 June had unfortunately to be cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis. However, a belated celebration will be scheduled when some semblance of normality in the worlds of travel and socialising has been restored

The runner-up  is Mel Andrew Schwing (studying for his PhD at the University of Cambridge) for his essay entitled:

‘Don’t Rage Against the Machine: Why AI May be the Cure for the “Moral Hazard” of Party Appointments’

Both essays are to be published, in due course, in the scholarly journal, Arbitration International