PCA to host Vis Pre-Moot in April 2020 and a Buenos Aires Vis Pre-Moot in February 2020
The PCA is pleased to announce that on the 30th and 31st of March 2020, the PCA will host a practice moot in The Hague to prepare students for the 27th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna (scheduled to take place between the 3rd and 9th of April 2020). The Hague practice moot will be held at the PCA’s headquarters in the Peace Palace.
For the first time, the PCA will also host a practice moot in Buenos Aires on the 28th of February 2020, at the San Martín Palace where the PCA Buenos Aires Office is located.
In The Hague, over the two days, each team will have the opportunity to plead twice as Claimant and twice as Respondent. Highly qualified international arbitration specialists from a variety of jurisdictions will serve as arbitrators and provide feedback to the teams. All teams will be scored and ranked and each team will separately receive the scores of its individual oralists. The top three teams will be announced at a final cocktail event.
In Buenos Aires, over a single day, each team will plead at least once as Claimant and once as Respondent. The teams will be similarly assessed by experienced international arbitration specialists and will receive feedback at the conclusion of each practice hearing. Each team will be scored and ranked and will also separately be provided the scores of its individual oralists.
In past years, participating universities of the PCA Vis Pre-moot have included: Aarhus University, Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Amsterdam University, Catholic University of America, Centro Universitário Curitiba, College of Law UAE University, Columbia University, HEDAC de Versailles, Dar Al-Hekma University, École de Formation des Barreaux de la Cour d’Appel de Paris, Elon University, Erasmus University, Federal University of Parana, Getúlio Vargas Foundation (São Paulo), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Hofstra University, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, ILS Law College (Pune), Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, Jagiellonian University, King’s College London, Leiden University, Loyola University, Maastricht University, McGill University, MGIMO-University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations), Monash University, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, National University of Juridical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Queen Mary College University of London, São Paulo University, Sciences Po Law School, Stetson University College of Law, Stockholm University, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Universidad Panamericana Guadalajara, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Università degli Studi di Milano, Universität Passau, Université de Paul Cézanne d’Aix-Marseille, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, University College of London, University of Auckland, University of Bonn, University of Buenos Aires, University of Cologne, University of Copenhagen, University of Gießen, University of Indonesia, University of New South Wales, University of Notre Dame (Sydney), University of Prishtina, University of Sheffield, University of Sydney, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, University of Turku, Utrecht University, Victoria University (Melbourne), and West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
Teams that would like to participate in the PCA Vis Pre-moot 2020 in The Hague are invited to submit an expression of interest to [email protected]. To participate in the PCA Buenos Aires Vis Pre-moot 2020, teams should submit an expression of interest to [email protected].
Expressions of interest should be submitted no later than 13 December 2019. Limited spaces are available. Teams will be informed by 20 December 2019 whether they have been selected for participation in either the PCA Vis Pre-moot in The Hague or the PCA Buenos Aires Vis Pre-moot. There is no registration fee.