NALSAR team emerges as runners up of 13th Indian Willem C. Vis Pre-Moot, 2023

The 13th Indian Vis Pre-Moot 2023 was held between March 3 to March 5, 2023, at the O.P. Jindal Global University. The NALSAR team has emerged as the runners-up of the moot competition. The team will now represent the university at Vis Vienna Moot in April 2023.

The NALSAR team consisting of Abhi Udai Singh Gautam, Lakshaya Grover, Mrityunjoy Roy, Dhananjay Dhonchak and Pranav Bajpai emerged as the runners-up in the 13th Indian Willem C. Vis Pre-Moot, 2023. 

NALSAR tweet reads, "We are delighted to announce that the team consisting of Abhi Udai Singh Gautam, Lakshaya Grover, Mrityunjoy Roy, Dhananjay Dhonchak and Pranav Bajpai emerged as the Runners Up in the 13th Indian Willem C. Vis Pre-Moot, 2023."

The team will be representing the university at the Vis Vienna Moot in April 2023. 

About Vis Moot 2023

The purpose of the Vis Moot is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration and provide practical training to students for resolving international business disputes. The business community’s marked preference for resolving international commercial disputes by arbitration is the reason this method of dispute resolution was selected as the clinical tool to train law students.

There are two crucial phases in the Vis Moot to train advocacy skills: the writing of memoranda for claimant and respondent and the presentation of arguments in oral hearings held before arbitration practitioners and academics. The forensic and written exercises require determining questions of contract — flowing from a transaction relating to the sale or purchase of goods under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and other uniform international commercial law.

"In the pairings of teams for each general round, every effort is made to have civil law schools argue against common law schools — so each may learn from approaches taken by persons trained in another legal culture. Similarly, the teams of arbitrators judging each round are from both common law and civil law backgrounds," reads the official statement.

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