Work Project

Abstract

This Work Project aims to provide an overview of the progress and experience of the team representing the Nova University of Lisbon – School of Law in the 27th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. It aims to focus both on the competition itself and on the work done by the team, both in the written and oral phases. We shall first analyse the Vis Moot competition itself, in particular the unique way it was carried out this year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the perspective adopted by the team throughout the competition. Then we will proceed to a brief summary of the Problem released in this edition, and an analysis of each of the issues posed by the Problem. Similarly to previous years, our team was composed of three members, and being that there were four issues, each member had to cooperate in order to fairly distribute the workload, including a redistribution of issues between the written and oral portions of the competition. Thus, in this Work Project, each student will individually address the issue that they undertook in the written part, refined with the knowledge acquired during the oral challenges. Finally, the written Memoranda that was submitted by the team can be found in Annexes I and II.