Moot Court: Vis Arbitration Moot

Aims of the course
·Acquiring knowledge of the principles, rules and praxis governing international commercial arbitration and international commercial law;
·Making autonomous judgments on international commercial arbitration, international commercial law and legal issues;
·Bring of legal English (both oral and written) to an exceptional level;
·Making legal research on the most important Italian and foreign legal databases;
·Developing skills on written and oral legal advocacy, including the ability to to draft a legal memorandum, to convincingly argue a case, to plead in front of a tribunal;
·Fostering organizational skills, time management, team building attitudes and the ability to brilliantly discuss legal issues in front of the best professionals in the field.

At the end of the course students will have an advanced knowledge of:
-Fundamental features of international commercial arbitration;
-Fundamental features of international commercial law (especially international contracts and Vienna Convention on International Sales of Goods 1980 - CISG)
-Techniques on written legal advocacy
-Techniques on oral legal advocacy
-Use of paper and electronic legal databases
-How to plead in front of a professional arbitral tribunal
They will acquire a method on:
-Critical legal thinking
-Analysis of case law
-Solving complex legal problems by practical sessions of case analysis, discussion and moot courts
-Writing sophisticated legal briefs, submissions and memoranda in English
-Holding hearings in English in an adversarial context
-Time management; working under pressure; team-work