Vis Moot Court

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The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is an annual competition for law students. 366 universities from 66 countries participated in 2017/18.

In the Willem C. Vis Moot, participants simulate arbitration proceedings, which consists of an exchange of written submissions and oral proceedings. The fictional case concerned will be published online in October. The registered universities subsequently write an application and a response, and then present the case to a fictitious arbitral tribunal in Vienna. The arbitral tribunals are composed of experienced professors and lawyers from a wide range of backgrounds. The substantive aspect is concerned with a case concerning the Vienna Sales Law (CISG), while the procedural aspect focuses on international arbitration. The written submissions and the pleadings must both be made in English.

Requirements     

Master’s students, very good proficiency in English and preferably participation in the Moot Court in Obligations Law.

For Bachelor’s students, credit may only be transferred to a subsequent Master’s degree.

The Moot Court comprises a total of 18 ECTS credits. It can be credited in the Master's degree either as an elective module (18 ECTS credits) or as a Master's thesis (12 ECTS credits) and elective module (6 ECTS credits). For crediting as a Master's thesis, you must already be enrolled in the Master's programme at the time of registration.

Bachelor students who have already achieved 150 ECTS credits can only have the course credited as a Master elective module (18 ECTS credits). Other crediting in the Bachelor is not possible.

This listing does not guarantee that the desired crediting will be possible. The credit request will be examined individually after admission to the Moot Court in the autumn semester.

Responsible       Chairs

• Chair Prof Dr Helmut Heiss, LLM

• Chair Prof Dr Leander D. Loacker, MPhil

Contact

Tel.: +41 (0)44 634 55 29

mootcourt@rwi.uzh.ch

Relevant are in particular: Good English language skills (if possible with certificate), previous Moot Court experience, grade point average, ability to work in a team and sufficient availability (i.e. not too many other planned courses/side activities).

Applications without prior participation in the Moot Court in the CO are possible.

Please submit your application in English in a PDF ("Last_First_Name_Vis Moot Application") with a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, overview of achievements or certificates (university level) and any language certificates by 6th of June 2023 to the following address:

mootcourt@rwi.uzh.ch

The University of Zurich team for the Vis Moot Court 2023/24 has been selected. Please refrain from further applications.