[Law26] Tryouts for the Willem Vis moot team (from Professor Papadima)

[Essary, Larry]

Try out for Campbell’s Willem Vis team and get to practice your oral advocacy skills in Hong Kong or in Vienna (Austria)!!!! Meet students from all over the world and local practitioners from North Carolina specializing in commercial/business litigation/arbitration and transactional work, through Campbell’s Willem Vis alumni network.



You can learn more about this moot court competition here: https://www.vismoot.org/. It involves a dispute about a commercial contract that gets resolved through arbitration. It’s a great opportunity to revisit 1L Contracts and it will also help you with your Sales & Leases class. For those who dream of becoming litigators, it’s a wonderful opportunity to advance your oral advocacy skills, in the more relaxed context of arbitration (which is an alternative dispute resolution method to traditional litigation, using private judges and no juries).



You won’t need to have any particular knowledge of any body of law in order to be on the team or any particular skills or grades, but you do need to (a) show that you are capable of solid research and legal analysis and (b) be a team player.



The team will be coached by Professor Papadima, with help from the large community of Campbell’s Willem Vis alumni, which is now approaching 50 members, many of whom work at major law firms in NC. 4-8 students will be selected. Participation on the team will be rewarded with 3 (three) credits (granted in the Spring 2025 semester) for students who complete all stages of the competition (September 3, 2024 – April 18, 2025).



The selection consists of a written phase and an oral argument. The dates are Saturday, August 24 at 1pm (for the written phase) and Tuesday, August 27 at 5pm (for the oral argument). You will be informed if you are invited to deliver an oral argument by Sunday, August 25. The sooner you submit your written materials, the more time you might have to prepare for oral argument!



Attached is additional information about the selection process, including the application form and the tryout problem (same problem for the written phase and for oral argument).



Please do not hesitate to reach out to Professor Papadima if you are interested in this competition or if you have any questions. Even if you’re not interested in this opportunity, please share it with your friends or classmates who might be interested.



Raluca Papadima, LL.M., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Campbell University School of Law

225 Hillsborough Street | Room 438 | Raleigh, NC 27603

Office: (919) 865-4683 | Cell: (347) 326-0020 | rpapadima at campbell.edu<mailto:rpapadima at campbell.edu>






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