2025 International Mediation Competition Winners

International Mediation,

The 2025 International Mediation Competition took place April 3-5 in São Paulo at Insper, a higher education institution. Please visit the 2025 website page for all details about the 2025 event.

Here are the results:

Best Written Statement:
1st place: 
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC-PR)

2nd places:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Univerasidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

3rd places:
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
National Law School of India University, Bangalore
University of São Paulo (USP)

Best Client:
1st place: Ammaar Sheheen (Jindal Global Law School)
2nd place: Carla Melaco (Yale Law School)
3rd place: Alan Gitelman (Cardozo School of Law)

Best Counsel:
1st place: Aujaswi Maken (The West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences) 
2nd place: Rachel Sadow (Cardozo School of Law)
3rd place: Nikhil Naveen Raju (Jindal Global Law School)

Best Teamwork:
1st place: Yale Law School
2nd place: Fordham Law School
3rd place: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 

Best Mediator:
1st place: Roziyakhon Kuchkarova (Tashkent State University of Law)
2nd place: Maya Horwitch (Cardozo School of Law)
3rd place: Jessica Dannery (Sciences Po Paris Law School)

Best Negotiators Team:
1st place: Cardozo School of Law
2nd place: Jindal Global Law School
3rd place: Yale Law School


The following IMC winners also received full tuition scholarships from IMC Sponsor, ICFML, for its 4th edition of the International Negotiation and Mediation - Summer Program being held July 14-19, 2025, at the Law School of the Catholic University of Porto, in Portugal: 

Best Mediator:
1st place: Roziyakhon Kuchkarova (Tashkent State University of Law)
2nd place: Maya Horwitch (Cardozo School of Law)

Best Negotiators Team:
1st place: Cardozo School of Law: Alan Gitelman and Rachel Sadow

Best Client:
1st place: Ammaar Sheheen (Jindal Global Law School)

Best Counsel:
1st place: Aujaswi Maken (The West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences)