23rd Vis East Moot Oral Arguments: 15-22 March 2026, Hong Kong S.A.R.

ABOUT THE

VIS EAST MOOT

The Vis East Competition is the sister competition to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. With the continuous rise in international commercial transactions and the inevitable resulting cross-border disputes in Asia, the Vis East provides law students, academics, and professionals with a similar exposure to, and experience in, international arbitration and international trade law as the Vis Moot in Vienna but with an Asian twist!

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Jus Mundi Offer Exclusive for Vis East Participants!

28 FEBRUARY 2025

Jus Mundi is once again offering Vis East Moot participants an exclusive one-month free trial of its new product, Jus AI, an advanced AI assistant.

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Final Panel

21 FEBRUARY 2025

And the Vis East Moot is proud to reveal the FINAL PANEL for the 22nd Vis East Moot Competition!

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New Resource

8 NOVEMBER 2024

The Vis East Moot Administration would like to draw your attention to a new resource on international arbitration put together as part of a collaborative effort between the Georgetown International Arbitration Society (GIAS), Signature Litigation, and Young OGEMID.

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Jus Mundi Training Sessions

9 OCTOBER 2024

We are delighted to announce that Jus Mundi is once again collaborating with the Vis East Moot and offering students who are properly registered with the 22nd Vis East Moot complimentary access to their database.

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Why be a part of the Vis East?

Students

The Vis East Moot offers students unique and excellent opportunities to learn about international arbitration and trade law with a hands-on experience through the a simulated arbitration proceeding. It also allows students to establish a worldwide professional and personal networks with fellow law students and professionals who all have a common interest in international arbitration and trade law.

Academics

The Vis East Moot gives academics the opportunity to network, personally and professionally, with colleagues worldwide who share a common interest in international arbitration and trade law. It also connects academics with top notch students from various jurisdictions. The Vis East is also a platform for a number of international research projects involving various aspects in international arbitration and trade law.

Professionals

The Vis East Moot offers professionals an international networking platform allowing them to connect with legal and other professionals from jurisdictions worldwide, all of whom have a common interest in international arbitration and/or trade law. It also connects professionals with law students from a multitude of jurisdictions where they are able to experience first-hand the students written and oral advocate capabilities in a simulated arbitration proceeding.

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Family

The Vis Moot community is unique from other professional events in that the community keeps in touch annually for years and is one large family. Lifetime professional and personal connections are made during the Vis East and the Moot Alumni Association formalizes these relationships and works to implement various instruments to ensure that the Vis Moot family stays in touch and continues to expand. The connections made at the Vis East are not solely professionally, but also personal – the Vis Moots have resulted in lifelong friendships and even in Vis Moot families!

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What People Say About the Vis East

I owe my professional and personal successes to the Vis Moot competition. Without the Vis, I would not be working in a field that I love surrounded and supported by an amazing group of people.

Sherlin Tung

Partner, Withersworldwide (Hong Kong), President of the Moot Alumni Association
I represented Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. The moot led me to so many amazing opportunities. I worked in Paris for over a year at Orrick and then at the ICC. Now with CPR and who knows what’s next. I was asked to coach the team from NALSAR University of Law Hyderabad, India for the next Vis, 2022; the team competing in Vienna. The Vis was the best academic/career decision I made. Thank you for making it possible.

ALVEEN SHIRINYANS, ESQ,

CPR: International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (New York)
It has been an honour and a privilege for me to be involved with the Vis East Moot since its inception. I was the Branch Chairman of the East Asia Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators when Louise came to CIArb with her vision for creating the Vis East Moot. To watch the Moot growth from its humble beginnings to its current fantastic state is similar to the pride which a parent feels in watching a gifted child mature and grow.

GLENN HALEY,

Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Hong Kong)
The important work the Vis East Moot does training and networking future practitioners is essential to support. It performs a function like no other entity or event, and under the wise guidance of Louise Barrington it performs that function exceptionally well. Plus, the great energy, enthusiasm, and talent of the participants reminds me of why I became a lawyer myself.

Ambassador (r.) David Huebner

Huebner Arbitration (California)
It is a delight to immerse in the enthusiasm of university students from around the world in promoting international arbitration and enhancing their advocacy and legal skills through participation in the Vis East. It is also breath-taking to watch the scale with which those skills and devotion have grown during successive years of the Vis East and to witness the Vis East student participants associating themselves with international arbitration in their careers.

GIOVANNA KWONG,

Senior Of Counsel, YTL LLP Law Firm (Hong Kong)
One of the great pleasures of coming back to the Vis East year after year is to see the progress many of the schools are making toward the practice of international arbitration.

PAUL G. Huck FCIArb

Paul G. Huck ADR (New York)

The Vis East Moot is important to me for three reasons. First, because it reminds me of my most rewarding student life experience: Pleading a case before experienced arbitration professionals while meeting inspiring peers from around the globe. Second, because the Vis East Moot means being part of the arbitrator community who meets each year to train the next generation of arbitration practitioners. Third and most importantly, because I met some of my closest friends to date through the Vis.

SABINE NEUHAUS,

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE MOOT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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  • The Vis Moot Communities are mourning the loss of

    Professor Peter Rhodes, longtime Vis Moot coach of Chinese University of Hong Kong.

    You will forever remain in our hearts and memories. Rest in Peace.

    Professor Peter Rhodes

    1948-2025

  • The Vis Moot Communities are mourning the loss of

    Karen Mills, Director on the Vis East Moot Board of Directors.

    You will forever remain in our hearts and memories. Rest in Peace.

    Karen Mills

    May 05, 1942 – August 11, 2025

  • Arbitrators can register for Vis East 20 beginning in Mid October 2022.