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Are there any Team Members/Coaches of the Eighth Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot out there?!

just to bring this question back to the top of the conversations....

So: Who's going to Vienna then?

Ok, I figure that noone of the 8th Moot is out there.... But what about the 9th?

Hello?

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...what is the Eighth Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot out there???
Maybe I am a member and I don't even know yet?

Probably, not, Feffi. I guess you would have noticed had you been working on a case of international trade law for the last six months....

A588170 - about the Vis Moot

Feffi, you might be interested to know that both the University of Copenhagen and National Law School of India (Bangalore) participate in this competition...

ok, then I am not a member. I studied at the Ingeniorshojskolen ( spelling, well I anyway can't make those little o with the /) in Copenhagen, so I didn't hear of it and the only university contacts I have here in Bangalore are to some very nice students of the IISC, but I guess they are more interested in parties than law .
So I guess you are studying law? Did you take part? I would suppose it's a nice way to meet a lot of people from other countries. Can you mix teams from different universities?

Yeah, that's what I figured from reading your page...

I dimly recall that I have one or two paragraphs on the partying in Vienna...

I used to study that. Working on my Dr. jur. ATM. And yes, I took part, trained one or two teams and I shall be judging this year as well. It's a great way to get to know a whole lotta people from all over the globe. I'm still in contact with a few of the 2000 Moot.... and the 2001 one.
Yes, one can mix teams. Quite often you see a name that sticks out from the rest like e.g. "Mac Guinness" does not really sound like a Swedish name to my ears...

And it's quite helpful, too... that way you can access a whole heap of foreign cases. Preferably people from countries the language of which is rarely spoken. Just imagine a Canadian Team trying to look up the cases from Singapore you've accessed because there's someone from there on your team...

Is there a similar thing for your courses?

That sounds really nice. Do you choose the cases all by yourself or do they give you some to choose from?

I never heard of something similar for engineering. But during my studies in Copenhagen I did the European Project Semester which is a bit like it. Students from all over Europe and the US come there to do projects. They mix students from different countries and faculties and give them a project to work on together as part of their studies. It was great to experience how people from different nations work and think...and party, of course. I guess, it also helped to get rid of a lot of stupid prejudices a lot of us had about some countries. We had a lot of fun together. Especially as our supervisor kept giving us books in Danish which none of us could understand...

Just imagined a golden label on a glass&marble building, with the letters 'Judge Tube' embossed in large, friendly letters on it