Five students from the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia have won the second Albert H. Kritzer prize for the best arbitration claim in the 15th edition of Moot Madrid, the international competition on Arbitration and Commercial Law organised by the University Carlos III.
The team was made up of students Sibel Memis and María Amparo Conde García (Degree in Law, ARA group), Rocío Iglesias Insúa (Double Degree in Law and Political Science), Nuria Serra Ripoll and María Blasco Jordán (Double Degree in Law and Business Administration).
The group of students has been coached by teacher Alicia Armengot Vilaplana and teachers Miguel Gimeno Ribes and José Landete Casas, as well as by former competition participants Miguel Casañs Gómez, Joan Cervantes and Gómez and Benjamín Velasco Onrubia.
Moot Madrid is a tournament of international arbitration simulations based on a complex factual scenario in which questions of substantive and procedural law are raised to be resolved. In the 2023 edition, the case dealt with a series of interrelated legal transactions and the commission of presumed unlawful acts in the metaverse.
The participating students had to defend the positions of their fictious clients by means of legal arguments on aspects of contract law, unfair competition and intellectual property law. Over the course of several months, the teams submitted written statements of claim and defence and, in the week of 17-21 April, they competed in oral hearings in the qualifying rounds.
The award ceremony can be viewed here.
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