The final panel was comprised of Dr. habil. Claudia Annacker (Partner, Dechert, Paris), Professor Mathias Wolkewitz (Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Wintershall Dea AG) and Dr. Jaroslav Kudrna (Head of the International Arbitration and Investment Protection Univ, Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic).
The following teams qualified for the elimination rounds:
- Symbiosis Law School, Pune, Symbiosis International University (winner)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (finalist)
- Nalsar University of Law (semifinalist)
- National University of Singapore (semifinalist)
- Tsinghua University (round of 8)
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Laws (round of 8)
- University of Vienna (round of 8)
- West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (round of 8)
- Bar Ilan University (round of 16)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (round of 16)
- King’s College London (round of 16)
- Koç University (round of 16)
- La Statale University (Milan) (round of 16)
- Nagoya University (round of 16)
- National Institute University Bhopal (round of 16)
- Singapore Management University (round of 16)