Vis Moot Topics

Catalog description

This course provides the students in the Fall, Part I, the opportunity to participate and compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Part II of the course will be offered in spring. The full course develops the students' research, writing, and oral argument skills, and provides immediately applicable knowledge as to the process, procedure, and legal framework of international commercial arbitration. The course provides substantive study of international legal materials including the Convention on the International Sale of Goods, the UNIDROIT Principles, the NY Convention, and other international rules, laws, conventions, treaties, awards, and decision. The course results in in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge procedural and substantive legal issues in commercial arbitration as raised in the Moot. Moreover, the course requires significant team work and will result in team unity. The class will collaborate extensively in performing in-depth research on procedural and substantive international arbitral and commercial issues, and depending on the number of students, construct and polish one or more Claimant's Memorandum.