Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot)
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| Established | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Venue | varies |
| Subject matter | Investment arbitration |
| Record Registration | 110 teams (2018) |
| Qualification | National Rounds, Regional Rounds, Global Rounds |
| Website | https://fdimoot.org/ |
Overview[edit]
Initiated in 2006 by Center for International Legal Studies (CILS), the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS), King's College London, Pepperdine University, and Suffolk University Law School came together to establish the FDI Moot or Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot as a new international moot court competition focusing on investor-State disputes as the first of its kind. As global law firm sponsor Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom came on board. As co-founder and organiser, CILS manages the FDI Moot. The venue for Global Finals rotates each year, and the inaugural edition of the FDI Moot was held in October 2008 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston..[1].
The FDI Moot spans approximately six months each year in two phases, written memorials for claimant and respondent and the hearing of oral argument with regional or national rounds for Asia Pacific (Seoul), South Asia (New Delhi), Kenya (Nairobi), Ethiopia (Dire Dawa) and Viet Nam (Ho Chi Minh City), and pre moots in Budapest, St Petersburg, Sao Paulo and Warsaw.
History[edit]
The FDI Moot started out as with Global Oral Hearings each October or November, hosted at each of the four co-founding institutions premises. In 2014 due popular demand regional rounds were established for South Asia with oral rounds held in New Delhi which are organised by the Kachwaha & Partners and Asia Pacific with oral rounds held in Seoul organised by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board. Teams participating in the Regionals have to submit Skeleton Briefs, teams from the South Asia region must participate in the New Delhi Rounds, up to four teams from the Asia Pacific Region may sign up directly for the Global Rounds. In 2015 the first East Africa Regional was held at Africa Nazarene University.[2]
Board of Advisors[edit]
The FDI Moot's Board of Advisors is composed of distinguished academics and practitioners in international arbitration and international investment regulation who lend their prestige to the competition and guide its organisers.[3]
Professor Thomas Wälde[edit]
The late Prof. Thomas W. Wälde and Mr. Ian Laird launched an appeal to raise funds to support developing country teams' participation in the FDI Moot in September 2008. The Thomas Wälde Team Fund distributes donations in the form of accommodation or travel subsidies. Since 2011, Skadden has matched donations up to US$1500, and between 2010 and 2015 FTI Consulting did so as well up to US $2500. The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is also a major contributor to the Thomas Wälde Team Fund. The Wälde family has permitted the FDI Moot to name its prize for the best advocate in honour of Prof. Wälde. The prize will be known as the Thomas Wälde Advocacy Award for Best Oralist. It will be awarded to the best individual advocate of the Oral Hearings. (25 October 2008)[4]
Written Contributions[edit]
With the case published in spring of each year, regional teams then have to prepare skeleton briefs of 1600 words submitted by end of July. Teams participating in the Global Finals have to prepare a Memorial for Claimant (Applicant) and Respondent, each up to 16,000 words. Those memorials are then judged by memorial judges, who rank them (usually within a batch of three) in a total of three rounds. [5]. Memorials will be weighted into the scores of teams in oder to determine the winning team of preliminary round matches. The best Memorial for Claimant and Respondent have been receipients of Oxford University Press Prize until 2015 [6] The Top 3 Memorials for Claimant and Respondent are published each year in the Transnational Dispute Management Journal
Global Orals[edit]
Teams are seeded into eight groups and the two best teams of each group advance to the Round of Sixteen. Each participating team pleads two times claimant and two times respondent in the preliminary rounds, jugdged by a panel of three arbitrators.
Results[edit]
| Year | Global Oral Winner | Highest Ranked Team (oral and written pleadings) | Thomas Wälde Best Advocate | Team Participation (Global Orals) | Team Registration (Overall) | Global Final Venue |
| 2018 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences | Grace Tran, University of Ottawa | 54 | 110 | University of Stockholm |
| 2017[7] | National Law School of India University | University of Ottawa | Jolene Hansell, University of Ottawa | 52 | 104 | Suffolk University Law School |
| 2016[8] | Paris Bar School | Universitas Gadjah Mada | Megha Mehortra, NALSAR University of Law | 59 | 120 | University of Buenos Aires |
| 2015[9] | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Despoina Arslanidi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | 55 | 92 | King's College London |
| 2014[10] | University of Warsaw | Harvard Law School | Dominika Jedrzejczyk, University of Warsaw | 41 | 96 | Pepperdine University School of Law |
| 2013[11] | Harvard Law School | Federal University of Minas Gerais | Alexander Sysoev, St. Petersburg State University | 46 | 71 | IHK Frankfurt am Main |
| 2012[12] | University of Ottawa | St. Petersburg State University | Jessica van der Kamp, University of Hong Kong | 34 | 47 | Suffolk University Law School |
| 2011[13] | King's College London | King's College London | Daniel Barbosa, Federal University of Minas Gerais | 41 | 41 | King's College London |
| 2010[14] | Murdoch University | New York University | Christine van Geyn, New York University | 43 | 43 | Pepperdine University School of Law |
| 2009[15] | Pepperdine University | King's College London | Marija Skundric, University of Belgrade ex aequo Mr. Aaron Echols, Pepperdine University ex aequo Ms. Otylia Babiak, Suffolk University | 21 | 23 | IHK Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008[16] | Murdoch University | Murdoch University | Gunjan Sharma, New York University | 21 | 21 | Suffolk University Law School |
References[edit]
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/college.php?Year=2018&role=FI
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/regionals.php
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/college.php?Year=2018&role=B
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/college.php?Year=2018&role=TWF
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/rules.php#_Toc376698126
- ↑ https://fdimoot.org/Archive/
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2017/2017Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2016/2016Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2015/2015Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2014/2014Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2013/2013Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2012/2012Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2011/2011Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2010/2010Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2009/2009Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.fdimoot.org/Archive/2008/2008Report.pdf
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