Rishank Mehrotra

Rishank Mehrotra is a third-year BA.LLB (Hons.) student at Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam, with a strong interest in international commercial arbitration, advocacy and dispute resolution. He has represented DSNLU extensively in national and international mooting competitions and has developed particular experience in international arbitration through the Willem C. Vis Moot and FDI International Arbitration Moot.

Rishank was part of the DSNLU team, as an Oralist, at the 23rd Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Hong Kong, where the team reached the Quarter-Finals and received an Honourable Mention for the Best Claimant Memorandum. He subsequently represented a cross-institutional team at the FDI International Arbitration Moot 2026, where the team won the South Asia Regional Championship and qualified for the Global Rounds in Shenzhen. He also received an Honourable Mention for Best Speaker at the South Asia Rounds.

Rishank approaches mooting somewhat differently, particularly when it comes to advocacy. He believes that strong advocacy is often built not merely around knowing the law, but around recognising the small strategic choices that can shape how an argument is understood. His approach begins with dissecting a proposition to identify precisely what is being asked, what must actually be established, and where the real points of the contest lie. Having recently competed at both the Vis East and FDI Moots, he hopes to bring this strategy-oriented and detail-driven approach for the team.