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Awards in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

frame|Vis Moot Four Awards are annually given in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: The Pieter Sanders Award, the Werner Melis Award, the Martin Domke Award and the Frédéric Eisemann Award, the latter being awarded to the best prevailing team in the oral rounds (the "Winner of the Moot").[1]

Pieter Sanders Award for the Best Memorandum for Claimant

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The Pieter Sanders Award is given for the Best Memorandum on behalf of the Claimant. During the first three Moots, the Pieter Sanders Award was given for the Best Written Memoranda in support of the positions of Claimant and Respondent. (Subsequently, the Werner Melis Award was introduced as a separate award for the memorandum in support of the Respondent.)

The Award has been named after Professor Pieter Sanders (*1913), who is widely regarded as the "father" of modern international commercial arbitration.[2] He was one of the principal drafters of both the 1958 United Nations Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award (the "New York Convention") and the 1976 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Professor Sanders was also founder of the Law Faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam (where he taught up to his retirement in 1981) and co-founder of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the Netherlands Arbitration Institute.

In the Second Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held in Vienna in 1995, he served as one of the three arbitrators in the Finals.

Moot Year Winner of the Pieter Sanders Award
1st 1994 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
2nd 1995 University of Basel
3rd 1996 University of Cologne
4th 1997 University of Copenhagen
5th 1998 University of Münster
6th 1999 University of Basel
7th 2000 Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
8th 2001 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
9th 2002 University of Queensland
10th 2003 University of Bonn
11th 2004 tie: Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg; University of Zurich
12th 2005 University of Copenhagen
13th 2006 tie: Columbia University; University of Munich
14th 2007 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th 2008 University of California, Berkeley
16th 2009 University of Sydney
17th 2010 University of New South Wales

Werner Melis Award for the Best Memorandum for Respondent

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The Werner Melis Award is given for the Best Written Memorandum for Respondent. Unlike the three other awards in the Competition, this award did not exist during the first three Moots (1994-1996), but was only introduced in 1997. (During the first three Moots, the Pieter Sanders Award was given for the Best Written Memoranda in support of the positions of Claimant and Respondent.)

The Award has been named after DDr. Werner Melis (* 1935), President of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Vienna), Honorary Vice-President of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and a long-time supporter of the Vis Arbitration Moot.

The award is traditionally presented by Dr. Melis himself during the awards banquet concluding each Vienna Arbitration Moot.

Moot Year Winner of the Werner Melis Award
1st 1994 -
2nd 1995 -
3rd 1996 -
4th 1997 Deakin University
5th 1998 University of Münster
6th 1999 University of Basel
7th 2000 Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
8th 2001 University of Zagreb
9th 2002 University of Mainz
10th 2003 University of Cologne
11th 2004 National University of Singapore
12th 2005 Humboldt University of Berlin
13th 2006 University of Munich
14th 2007 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th 2008 University of Heidelberg
16th 2009 Stockholm University
17th 2010 University of New South Wales

Martin Domke Award for the Best Individual Oralist during the General Rounds

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The Martin Domke Award is awarded to the Best Individual Oralist during the general rounds. This award for the general rounds of the Competition (i.e. the four oral hearings of each team on Saturday through Tuesday) will be won by the individual advocate with the highest average score during these rounds. To be eligible for this award a participant must have argued at least once for the Claimant and once for the Respondent.

The Award has been named after Martin Domke (1892-1980), Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University and a well-known scholar of international arbitration. Professor Domke was Vice President of the American Arbitration Association for 25 years and served as editor in chief of the Arbitration Journal. He also was the author of "Commercial Arbitration," published in 1965, and "The Law and Practice of Commercial Arbitration," published in 1968.

Moot Year Winner of the Martin Domke Award
1st 1994 Gregor Kirchhof, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
2nd 1995 Chantal Niggemann, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
3rd 1996 Kay-Jannes Wegner, University of Cologne
4th 1997 Camilla Andersen, University of Copenhagen
5th 1998 Biljana Dischlieva, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel
6th 1999 Carmen Klein, University of Cologne
7th 2000 Jan Stemplewitz, University of Münster
8th 2001 Trevor Stockinger, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles
9th 2002 tie: Marion Alice Jane Isobel, University of Queensland; Robina Kaye, University of Montpellier
10th 2003 tie: Andrew Molnar, Deakin University; Simun Soljo, University of New South Wales
11th 2004 Alexey Konovalov, Mari State University
12th 2005 tie: Charmaine Roberts, University of New South Wales; Anna-Maria Tamminen, University of Vienna
13th 2006 Sonu Dhanju, Osgoode Hall Law School
14th 2007 Steven Wayne Hopkins, Southern Methodist University
15th 2008 Lennart Beckhaus, University of Münster
16th 2009 Oliver Jones, The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn
17th 2010 Antonia Füller, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

Frédéric Eisemann Award for the Best Team Orals (Winner of the Moot)

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The winner of the oral rounds at Vienna is awarded the Frédéric Eisemann Award for the best prevailing team in the oral rounds. It is the most prestigious award in the Competition (designating the "Winner of the Moot").

The Award has been named after Frédéric Eisemann (1908- ), the highly respected former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (1947-1973).

Moot Year Winner of the Frédéric Eisemann Award
1st 1994 Columbia University
2nd 1995 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
3rd 1996 Cornell University
4th 1997 University of Queensland
5th 1998 University of Münster
6th 1999 Deakin University
7th 2000 University of Queensland
8th 2001 Monash University
9th 2002 National University of Singapore
10th 2003 National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
11th 2004 Osgoode Hall Law School
12th 2005 Stetson University
13th 2006 Queen Mary, University of London
14th 2007 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th 2008 Carlos III University of Madrid
16th 2009 Victoria University of Wellington
17th 2010 King's College London

Award-Winning Teams (1994-2010)

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In the 17 years the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot has been conducted, a total of 70 awards have been given:

  • 19 Pieter Sanders Awards (in 2004 and 2006 there was a tie, so two awards were given in those years),
  • 14 Werner Melis Awards (since this award did not exist until the 4th Moot in 1997),
  • 20 Martin Domke Awards (three ties, in 2002, 2003 and 2005) and
  • 17 Frederic Eisemann Awards.[3]

Out of the approximately 270 universities that have sent teams to the Vis Moot in the past, only 36 have ever received an award (or more).

The List of Award-Winning Teams shown in the table below only covers the actual awards, not second and third places or honorable mentions. It counts all awards given since the inaugural Vis Moot held in 1994 up to the 17th Vis Moot (2010).

The Rank is based on the overall number of awards collected by the teams representing each university over the years. It not only includes the Sanders Awards, the Melis Awards and the Eisemann Awards, but also the Domke Awards, although the latter award is technically given to an individual member of the team, not the team as a whole. Whenever two (or more) teams have collected the same number of awards, a team which has received an Eisemann Award is ranked higher than the teams which have not (since the Eisemann Award designates the Winner of the Moot). Furthermore, teams which have received a team award (Sanders and Melis Awards) are ranked higher than those teams which have not (i.e. where a team member has received a Domke Award).

Rank Team Country Sanders Melis Domke Eisemann (Moot Winner) Award Total Participations
1 Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg Germany 3 1 3 2 9
5 University of Cologne Germany 1 1 2 0 4
8 University of Basel Switzerland 2 1 0 0 3
22 University of Bonn Germany 1 0 0 0 1
9 University of Copenhagen Denmark 2 0 1 0 3
2 University of Münster Germany 1 1 2 1 5
4 Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg Germany 2 2 0 0 4
22 University of Zurich Switzerland 1 0 0 0 1
3 University of Queensland Australia 1 0 1 2 4
10 Columbia University United States 1 0 0 1 2
13 University of Munich Germany 1 1 0 0 2
22 University of California, Berkeley United States 1 0 0 0 1
22 University of Sydney Australia 1 0 0 0 1
5 University of New South Wales Australia 1 1 2 0 4
7 Deakin University Australia 0 1 1 1 3
22 University of Zagreb Croatia 0 1 0 0 1
22 University of Mainz Germany 0 1 0 0 1
10 National University of Singapore Singapore 0 1 0 1 2
22 Humboldt University of Berlin Germany 0 1 0 0 1
22 Stockholm University Sweden 0 1 0 0 1
30 Christian Albrechts University of Kiel Germany 0 0 1 0 1
30 Loyola Law School Los Angeles United States 0 0 1 0 1
30 University of Montpellier France 0 0 1 0 1
30 Mari State University Russia 0 0 1 0 1
30 University of Vienna Austria 0 0 1 0 1
12 Osgoode Hall Law School Canada 0 0 1 1 2
30 Southern Methodist University United States 0 0 1 0 1
30 The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn United Kingdom 0 0 1 0 1
14 Cornell University United States 0 0 0 1 1
14 Monash University Australia 0 0 0 1 1
14 National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata India 0 0 0 1 1
14 Stetson University United States 0 0 0 1 1
14 Queen Mary, University of London United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 1
14 Carlos III University of Madrid Spain 0 0 0 1 1
14 Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand 0 0 0 1 1
14 King's College London United Kingdom 0 0 0 1 1

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Rules of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
  2. ^ See B.E. Shipman, "Professor Pieter Sanders", International Law FORUM du droit international (2000), 41-44
  3. ^ List of Past Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moots