QMUL Vis Moot team 2012

Queen Mary will be represented at the Willem C. Vis Moot in international Commercial Arbitration in Vienna, which is in its 19th edition this year.

This year's team consists of Constantin Klein (Germany), Thomas Baconin (France/Poland), Alisa Kashentseva (Russian Federation), Sougat Sinha (India), Daria Sakhno (Russian Federation) and Fabricio Fortese (Argentina). All team members are LLM Students at the SIA/CCLS.

The team is coached by Mr. Hayk Kupelyants (Armenia), Research Fellow in Private International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and teaching assistant at the SIA, and Dr. Zbysek Kordac (Czech Republic), a Czech and US qualified attorney who is currently reading for an LL.M. at the SIA/CCLS. The team is further supervised by Prof. Dr. Loukas Mistelis, and Dr. Stavros Brekoulakis (CCLS/SIA).

The first part of this year's problem relates to arbitral procedure and touches upon such issues as the independence and impartiality of arbitrators and the admissibility of damages arising out of the payment of a bribe. The second, substantive, part turns on a number of knotty issues under the CISG: force majeure, foreseeability of damages, etc. The applicable arbitration rules are the Arbitration Rules of CIETAC.

After having submitted a claimant's memorandum on 8 December 2011 and a respondent's memorandum on 19 January 2012, the team is currently preparing the oral rounds. This year's moot starts with the traditional welcome on 30 March 2012, followed by oral rounds in the subsequent week at various locations throughout Vienna. During this time, no less than 285 universities from 71 countries will compete for the top spot, which will be decided during a final round of pleadings on 5 April 2012.

For more information on the Vis Moot, please click here.