The purpose of the Sanctions Law Moot is to foster the study of International Public Law, European law, Sanctions law, International Investment Law and Arbitration and provide a practical training to students for resolving international disputes. 

The financial institutions that have been significantly affected with the impact of sanctions on their business marked preference for challenging the lawfulness of sanctions by international investment treaty arbitration that mat serve as another available channel is the reason this method of dispute resolution was selected as the clinical tool to train law students. 

There are two crucial phases in the Sanctions law Moot to train advocacy skills: the writing of memoranda for claimant and respondent and the presentation of arguments in oral hearings held before arbitration practitioners and academics.