INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION AT HONG KONG

INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION AT HONG KONG National Law School Of India University Nagarbhavi, Post Bag No.7201, Bangalore ? 560 072 India Telefax : 080-23213160, 23217858 Email : registrar@nls.ac.in Website : www.nsl.ac.in REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE 4TH ANNUAL WILLEM C. VIS (EAST) INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION TO BE HELD AT HONG KONG The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) is India’s premier Law University, and has always endeavoured to promote opportunities for talented budding advocates to hone their skills of advocacy through exercises such as moot court competitions. Teams from NLSIU have consistently excelled in various International as well as National moot court competitions such as The Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C., The Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot Court Competition, Vienna, The Stetson International Moot, Florida, the Bar Council of India Trust Moot, the Anand and Anand Moot on IPR Laws etc. For almost a decade now, NLSIU has been participating in the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition held at Vienna. This competition is intended to stimulate the study of International Commercial Law as well as Arbitration law by leading participants from different legal systems to analyse and interpret several International Conventions in the light of emerging trends and to then argue a hypothetical case arising out a business dispute before an International Adjudicatory panel composed of judges from different legal systems. The fact of it being one of the leading international moot court competitions is reflected in the participation of 156 universities from 49 countries in the competition last year. Our students have fared well in this competition by getting Honorable mentions on numerous occasions, and by finishing as one of the top 8 teams out of 151 participating teams in 2004. Needless to say, they have also benef