Vis Moot – Legal Education Tool In International Commercial Arbitration

This paper aims to open a reflection on the role of the Vis Moot on international commercial arbitration in the context of improving pedagogy in legal education. The paper identifies a number of educational benefits that derive from the practice-directed, integrative and international learning experiences inherent in the moot. Incorporating those moot activities within a coherently aligned pedagogical process improve further the quality of learning. Vis Moot is actually a week in which participants attend the hearing of a commercial dispute governed by UN Convention on Contracts on the International Sales of Goods (CISG), which involves learning experience relevant to professional practice both for those acting as students and arbitrators. The oral arguments run fluidly from the jurisdictional issues to the substantive and have been prepared by advanced law students, selected for their oral advocacy skills. The professionals of law find ways to transmit knowledge between generations by encouraging practical training and rewarding students. The Vis Moot has a remarkable value for students, teachers, coaches, law schools and all those participating as arbitrators for educational opportunities and international visibility that can provide better position in the international educational network and not only. Participating in such a moot can have a transformative effect on a teacher or a law school and its approach to legal education.