TRAC 4^th Vis Pre-moot (2021)

TRAC 4th Vis Pre-moot took place on March 9 and 10, 2021, with participation of 33 teams from 16 countries. This Pre-moot also brought together esteemed arbitration academics and practitioners around the world to accomplish this diverse and universal event as arbitrators.

TRAC 4th Vis Pre-moot opening webinar was held on 8 March 2021, in which Dr. Oveis Rezvanian (Director of TRAC), Dr. Hamid Gharavi (president of TRAC international board), Prof. Ronald A. Brand (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) and Prof. Patricia Shaughnessy (member of TRAC international board) were the featured speakers.

The distinguished panelists, engaged in discussions covering salient topics including the virtual hearing in an arbitration proceeding, the application of CISG provisions and the skills that participants in Vis Moot will achieve.

The full recorded video of the Opening Webinar is available on our YouTube channel through this link.

With the participation of 33 teams from several universities of 16 countries on day 1 and the kind contribution by the arbitrators of different nationalities, the TRAC 4th Vis Pre-moot General Rounds took place on 9 March 2021. Each team had two rounds of competitions and the top 8 teams advanced to the elimination rounds on day 2.

The final round of TRAC 4th Vis Pre-moot was held between the two finalists from Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia) and Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen (Germany). After a rough hearing before the distinguished members of arbitral tribunal, Prof. Margaret Moses, Prof. Patricia Shaughnessy, and Dr. Anthony Daimsis, the teams from Gadjah Mada University won the final round and ranked the first in TRAC 4^th Vis Pre-moot.

This year’s participating teams are listed alphabetically as below:

• Alma Mater Studiorum Università Di Bologna, Italy
• Amity Law School Delhi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India
• Bilkent University, Turkey
• Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic
• China-EU School of Law, Beijing, China
• Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, Germany
• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
• Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany
• Gadjah Mada University, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
• Government Law College, Mumbai, India
• Gray’s Inn, London, UK
• Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, United Kingdom
• Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
• Istanbul University, Turkey
• Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Marmara University Istanbul, Turkey
• National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), India
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• National Law University Delhi, India
• National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, India
• School of Law, CHRIST, Bengaluru, India
• School of Law, SASTRA DEEMED UNIVERSITY, Chennai, India
• The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala
• University of Bremen, Germany
• University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
• University of International Business and Economic, China
• University of Mainz, Germany
• University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
• University of Tehran, College of Farabi, Qom, Iran
• University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Top 8 Teams:

• Amity Law School Delhi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India.
  – Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic.
  – Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
  – Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.
  – Gadjah Mada University, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  – University of Mainz, Germany.
  – University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.
  – University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent,

Semi-final Teams:

• Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic.
• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
• Gadjah Mada University, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The finalists:

• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
• Gadjah Mada University, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The Winner of TRAC 4^th Vis Pre-moot (2021):

• Gadjah Mada University, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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