Welcome to the home page of the LSE Team for Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot! The Vis Moot, which involves problems of international arbitration and international contracts, is one of the most exciting pedagogical and practical experiences that law students can have during their studies. The LSE Team is coached by former participants and is supervised by Dr Paul MacMahon.
Team Members:
Oscar Sarazin, Lariana Sandulescu, Elmasharaf Mukhtar, Samuel Lo, Sveva Galzerano, and Rory Brooks.
Coaches:
Julian Ranetunge, Tara Lengersdorf, Evgeni Kostevitch, and Tian Bokal Šter.
Awards:
- Eric E. Bergsten Award (Team Orals) - Honourable Mention
- Honourable Mention for the Claimant's Memorandum in Vis East
- Qualification to the Round of 32 in Vienna
Team Members:
Vsevolod Martseniuk, Zijing Xu, Evgeni Kostevitch, Derek Qu, Yuxin Tian, Oliver Mugambi
Coaches:
Ruihan Liu, Julian Ranetunge, Tara Lengersdorf, Janusch Krasberg
Awards:
Eric E. Bergsten Award (Team Orals) - Honourable Mention
Qualification to the final round of 64
Team Members:
Caryn Chiah Ka-May, Julius Chen Ma, Nhan Pham-Thanh, Ryan Henry Ho, Willem de Vries, Xinyi Gao
Coaches:
Ruihan Liu, Julian Ranetunge, Georgie Dibbo
Awards:
Eric E. Bergsten Award (Team Orals) - Honourable Mention
Martin Domke Award For Best Individual Oralist - Honourable Mention for Willem de Vries Honourable Mention for the Respondent's Memorandum in Vis East
Qualification to the final round of 32
Team Members:
Weiran Liu, Sophie Low, Sze Hian Ng, Yan Chuan Ng, Jiayue Ma, Qing Tang
Coaches:
Ruihan Liu, Shaurya Upadhyay, Johannes Jiang
Awards:
Eric E. Bergsten Award (Team Orals) - Honourable Mention
Qualification to the final round of 8.
Team Members
Diana Stoean, Jacob Mills, Jason J Lin, Su Nahmias, Warren Lampson Suen, Wui Long Wong
Coaches:
Shaurya Upadhyay, Elliott Couper, Aarya Dixit
Awards:
Pieter Sanders Award For Claimant Memorandum - Winning Team
Werner Melis Award for Respondent Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Team Members
John Chedid, Aarya Dixit, Maroš Hodor, Johannes Jiang, Wui Long Wong, Liyuan Yu
Coaches:
Dharshini Prasad, Elliott Couper, Shaurya Upadhyay
Awards:
Pieter Sanders Award for Claimant Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Werner Melis Award for Respondent Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Team Members:
Evanthia Kasiora, Nishtha Agarwal, Shaurya Upadhyay, Shun Him Yau
Coaches:
Dharshini Prasad, Kotryna Kerpauskaite
Achievements:
The team ranked 9th out of 357 teams at the competition.
Eric E. Bergsten Award for Team Oral Arguments - Honourable Mention
Werner Melis Award for Respondent Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Martin Domke Award for Best Oralist - Second place - Evanthia Kasiora; Honourable Mention - Shun Him Yau
Team Members:
Antonin Sobek, Danni Chu, Ellen Herinckx, Ruihan Liu, Nicole Tan
Coaches:
Dharshini Prasad, Lee Jin Yi Mark
Achievements:
Werner Melis Award for Respondent Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Pieter Sanders Award for Claimant Memorandum - Honourable Mention
Team Members:
Lee Jin Yi Mark, Lee Ka Chun Steven, Maria della Porta Rodiani, Rohit Pisal, Seraphina Chew Shujun, Tan Yuen Yuen
Coaches:
Velimir Zivkovic, David Vitale, Jonathan Lim
Achievements:
Qualification to the final rounds of 64
Honourable Mentions for Ms. Tan Yuen Yuen and Mr. Lee Jin Yi Mark as Individual Oralists.
Team Honourable Mention for Respondent Memorandum.
Team Honourable Mention for reaching final rounds.
Team Members:
Stanislav Bojnansky, Vincent Chan, Cherry Chong, Aleksandr Frolov, Angel Li, Marco Wong
Coaches:
Velimir Zivkovic, Erin Eckhoff
Achievements:
Qualification to the final rounds of 32
Honourable Mention for Ms. Cherry Chong as an Individual Oralist.
Team Members:
Christina Dykun, Effrosyni Christofilou, Gülce Gürler, Ingram Cheung, Man-Kit Chau, Pieter De Smedt, Seán O'Dea, Sonja Pavic, Yi-Jun Kang
Coaches:
Aashni Dalal, Manuel Penadés Fons, Ugljesa Grusic
Achievements:
Qualification to the final rounds of 32
Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for Claimant
Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for Respondent
Honourable Mention for Ms. Sonia Pavic as an Individual Oralist
Team members:
Adil Khalid Tirmizey, Bartholomäus Regenhardt, Claire Cregan, Erik Lindemann, Suzana Boncina, Yi-Jun Kang
Coaches:
Aashni Dalal, Natalie Schober, Ugljesa Grusic
Achievements:
Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for Respondent
Team members:
Aashni Dalal, José R. Pereyó Dueño, Nausheen Rahman, Michaela Zhirova
Coaches:
Ugljesa Grusic, Larissa Louza
Achievements:
Qualification to the final rounds of 32
Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for Claimant
Second-best Individual Oralist of the Competition for Ms. Aashni Dalal
Team Members:
Johannes Kater, Kira Krissinel, Sara Nadeau-Séguin, Manuel Penadés Fons and Mumuksha Singh
Coach:
Annabelle Möckesch
Achievements:
13th place out of 228 teams in the general rounds and qualification to the final rounds of 32
Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for Claimant
Honourable Mention for Ms. Sara-Nadeau Séguin as an Individual Oralist
The Competition
The Willem C. Vis Moot is today the largest and the most prestigious competition of its kind, with around 250 participating teams from more than 50 countries. It is organized by the Association for the Organization and Promotion of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and sponsored by organizations such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), American Arbitration Association (AAA), German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Swiss Arbitration Association and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. The Moot is described by its organizers as follows:
"The goal of the Vis Arbitral Moot is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for resolution of international business disputes through its application to a concrete problem of a client and to train law leaders of tomorrow in methods of alternative dispute resolution.
The business community's marked preference for resolving international commercial disputes by arbitration is the reason this method of dispute resolution was selected as the clinical tool to train law students through two crucial phases: the writing of memoranda for claimant and respondent, and the hearing of oral arguments based on the memoranda – both settled by arbitral experts in the issues considered. The forensic and written exercises require determining questions of contract – flowing from a transaction relating to the sale or purchase of goods under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and other uniform international commercial law – in the context of an arbitration of a dispute under specified Arbitration Rules.
In the pairings of teams for each general round of the forensic and written exercises, every effort is made to have civil law schools argue against common law schools – so each may learn from approaches taken by persons trained in another legal culture. Similarly, the teams of arbitrators judging each round are from both common law and civil law backgrounds.”
LSE students participating in this competition receive a unique opportunity to test their skills and knowledge in an international environment of excellent quality. During the first stage, the team analyses this year’s Moot problem and drafts the memoranda for claimant and respondent. The second stage consists of the pleading of oral arguments based on the memoranda at the Moot’s general rounds in Vienna in April. In four preliminary rounds two students from each team plead either the position of the claimant or that of the respondent. 64 teams qualify for the final rounds. A jury awards prizes to individual team members for the best pleading-performance. As a preparation for the oral pleadings, the LSE-team also participates in various “pre-moots” both in London and abroad.
Links:
The Willem C. Vis Moot official website
The Vis Moot page on Wikipedia
Contacts:
Dr Paul MacMahon: p.h.macmahon@lse.ac.uk