Bálint Kovács, assistant research fellow at the Department of Private International Law of the Faculty of Law in Szeged, won the 2024 Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration.
The world's leading organisation for international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution awards the Memorial Prize every two years to the person under 40 who has written the best published paper on international arbitration, conciliation or other forms of dispute resolution in the last two years.
The winning paper examines developments in investment arbitration in the European Union, with a particular focus on the challenges of enforcement. The paper was published in the Central European Journal of Comparative Law and can be read here.
The award was presented at the opening session of the biennial congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration in Hong Kong on 6 May.
This is the second time that the Memorial Prize has been awarded this year, the first prize having been awarded to Julian Arato, Professor at the Michigan Law School in 2022.
