Research
Grants and honours

  • Coach, University of Cambridge Vis Moot Team. 33rd Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, 2026
    •    Runner-up, Eric E. Bergsten Award for Team Orals
      Runner-up, Pieter Sanders Award for Best Memorandum for Claimant
      Honourable Mention, Werner Melis Award for Best Memorandum for Respondent

  • Fitzwilliam College Senior Scholarship Award on account of excellent intellectual achievement, University of Cambridge. UK, 2025. 

  • Fitzwilliam College Senior Scholarship Award on account of excellent intellectual achievement, University of Cambridge. UK, 2024. 

  • David Haywood Award from Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. UK, 2024.
      
  • Yorke Award from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. UK, 2024.
      
  • Gates Cambridge Scholarship Offer. UK, 2023. Gates Cambridge Interview

  • Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar award. Cambridge, UK, 2023.
      
  • Cambridge International Trust Scholar award. Cambridge, UK, 2023.
      
  • PhD position offer from the Law School at the University of Oxford to research the sociology of Brazilian and international arbitration. Supervisor: Dr. Florian Grisel. Wolfson College, Oxford, UK, 2023.

  • PhD position offer from the Law School at Edinburgh University to research data patterns in investment arbitration. Supervisors: Filippo Fontanelli and Ana Maria Daza Vargas. Edinburgh, UK, 2022.

  • Comparative and International Dispute Resolution (CIDR) Prize awarded by the Queen Mary University of London for the best overall academic performance of a student in 2019/2020. 

  • Chevening Award issued by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, aimed at fostering the studies of future global leaders. It funded the LLM at QMUL. London, UK, 2019. 

  • Motion of Applause issued by the Amazonas House of Representatives in respect to the work done with arbitration. Amazonas, Brazil, 2017.

  • Champion of the IV OAB/AM Moot Court Competition, organized by the Bar Association. Manaus, Brazil, 2016.

  • Champion and Best Oralist at the Federal University of Amazonas Moot Court Competition. Manaus, Brazil, 2016.

  • Champion and winner of the prizes of Best Memorandum for Claimant and Best Memoradum for Respondent at the III Northern Arbitration Moot Competition, organised by the Bar association. Manaus, Brazil, 2016.

  • Best Oralist and Best Memorandum for Respondent at the II Northern Arbitration Moot Competition, organized by the Bar Association. Manaus, Brazil, 2015. 

Leonardo F. Souza-McMurtrie
Arbitration and International Law