Vis Moot Part II: International Arbitration Competition

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This course provides the students in Part I, the enriching opportunity to participate and compete in the 29th annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot East. Part II will be offered in Spring. The full course develops the students' research, writing, and oral argument skills, and provides the immediately applicable knowledge as to how an arbitration runs. Moreover, the course requires significant team work and will result in team unity. The Vis Moot's Problem is released in October, the Claimant's Memoranda are due in December, and Respondent's Memoranda due in January. International pre-moot oral argument competitions begin in February, with a final Moot in Hong Kong in March-April. The Problem will address a dispute concerning a commercial business transaction gone awry. 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 Memoranda. The students will also learn to build and deliver sophisticated legal and policy oral arguments. Teams of four students will argue in competitions.