VIS INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION MOOT COURT TEAM ( 1 credit fall, 1 credit spring)

Prof. Lloyd Bonfield
Each year Pace Law School in conjunction with the University of Vienna hosts an international competition (over 250 law schools participate) in which students are given a hypothetical business transaction which has gone wrong, and for which an arbitration has been arranged. The course would prepare the ‘team’ for the competition. The brief is submitted in December; a reply brief is submitted in January; participation in the moot at Easter. The ‘team’ is indeed a team. Students are assigned issues that emerge from the problem. Although each student is responsible for producing a part of the brief, research is collaborative. Each student critiques the sections produced by other team members. Likewise, oral presentations are critiqued.
Graded Pass/Fail with possibility of “Pass with Distinction.”