About Stuti
Stuti Pandey is a fourth-year BA.LLB (Hons.) student specialising in Corporate Law at UPES School of Law, Dehradun, where she holds Batch Rank 1. She is a first-generation lawyer.
Holding the top rank in her batch has given Stuti a certain foundation, but it has also made one thing very clear to her: the classroom only takes you so far. Moot court has been the most important of those spaces. At the 23rd Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition in Hong Kong, she represented India, reached the quarter-finals, and was awarded Best Prosecution Memorial. She has won the Indian National Rounds of the 23rd Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition as Winner and Best Advocate, and secured Best Speaker at the XI Novice Moot Court Competition at UPES. She has also coached — the UPES team she trained for the 24th Henry Dunant Memorial competition returned as Defending Champions and won the Best Oralist Award.
The Vis Moot is new territory for Stuti, and she is stepping into it with full awareness of that. Her moot background is in public international law; international commercial arbitration is a world she has not yet worked in. But she is not coming in blind. She has spent the last two years building written memorials, arguing before panels of practitioners, and learning what it actually takes to prepare a legal position that holds up under sustained questioning. What draws her to the Vis specifically is that it sits at the intersection of two things she wants to get serious about: commercial law and dispute resolution.