Statale Vis Moot Teams – Annual Editions – STATALE MOOT COURT COMPETITIONS: WILLEM C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Welcome to the website of the Statale Willem C. Vis Moot Teams

Here you can find all the information about the annual participation of
University of Milan’s students (“Statale Moot Teams”) in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, the most prestigious international legal competition in the field of international commercial law and international commercial arbitration, which involves every around 400 Universities from all around the world.

400 Participating teams
87 countries
+1500 students
+1300 law experts acting as arbitrators

Statale Vis Moot Teams – Annual Editions

The Statale Vis Moot Teams, in the fifteen years of their participation, have competed against teams from all around the world, such as Harvard Law School, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Universität Heidelberg, University of Cambridge, University of Melbourne Law School, Science Po Law School (Paris), Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), NALSAR University of Law (Secunderabad, India), Fribourg Law (Switzerland), University of São Paolo Law School, University of Tehran Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires and others.

They have always achieved outstanding results, ranking among the best Italian teams in the history of the competition: among the first 11 teams out of 290 in 2014; among the first 16 out of 250 in 2010; among the first 56 out of 357 in 2018; 4 times among the best 64 ones out of more than 300 teams; several honourable mentions for the best oral teams (in 2018, in 2014, in 2012, in 2010) and honourable mentions for the written memoranda. In the 2023-2024 edition, the team was awarded with the “Werner Melis Award” for the Best Respondent Memorandum.

For the students who took part to it, the competition has always been a stepping stone for an outstanding career in law (international PH.D and LL.M. programs in top Universities and institutions, in Europe and in the USA, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Cornell Law School, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, NYU School of Law; in international law firms in Italy and abroad, such as Lalive Geneve, Clifford Chance London, BonelliErede Milan, Shearman & Sterling Paris, in Italy and abroad, in EU Institutions, in International Organizations and in International Courts and Tribunals – such as the ICJ).

The Statale Vis Moot Alumni has also a stunning 85% magna cum laude graduation grades from its participants.

Edition 2024 (XXXI Vis Moot)