4th RAA Arbitration Online Competition
Dear colleagues, we are pleased to inform you that the Arbitration Association (RAA), RAA25 and the Higher School of Economics invite students of law faculties from Russia and CIS countries, to participate in the 4th RAA Arbitration Online Competition. Information is Updated!
The RAA competition is an annual student competition, held as the game trial (moot court). The Competition's unique feature is that the teams and arbitrators can participate in it being in different parts of the world.
In on-line rounds that will be conducted on May 13-26 will be participating 67 teams!. The teams will be defending the honor of their alma maters from 30 towns and cities of CIS region
More on the universities of the competing teams on the map:
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Such a wide geographic coverage of the RAA Competition is explained by the fact that the first stage is conducted on-line. Thanks to online participation, teams can participate literally from anywhere in the world. For this, they only need to use the “Arbitrage Online” RAA System and video conferencing.
During the online rounds, teams will have to demonstrate their skills in writing procedural documents and, on their basis, verbally protect the interests of the claimant and the respondent in the training case before the arbitrators.
More than 50 practicing lawyers specializing in arbitration will be the arbitrators.
According to the results of the online rounds, the best teams will be identified to meet in Moscow at the oral hearings of the RAA Competition. Oral hearings will be held on the basis of HSE from August 23 to August 25, 2019
In the run-up to the oral hearing, on August 23, 2019, the Conference of the RAA on topical issues of international commercial arbitration will also take place. Entrance to the Conference will be open to all comers.