Goal of the Vis Arbitral Moot. The goal of the Vis Arbitral Moot is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for the resolution of international business disputes through its application to a concrete problem of a client and to train law leaders of tomorrow in methods of alternative dispute resolution.

Structure of the Moot. The business community’s marked preference for resolving international commercial disputes by arbitration is the reason this method of disputes resolution was selected as the clinical tool to train law students through two crucial phases:the writing of memorandums for claimants and respondents and hearing of oral arguments based upon the memorandum - both settled by arbitral experts in the issues considered . The forensic and written exercise require determining questions of contract –flowing from a transaction relating to a sale or purchase of goods under the United Nations Conventions on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and other information commercial law – in the context of an arbitration of a dispute under specified Arbitration Rules.

In the pairing of teams for each general round of the forensic and written exercises, every effort is made to have civil law schools argues common law schools--so each may learn from approaches taken by persons trained in another legal culture.
Similarly, the teams of arbitrators judging each round are from common law and civil law backgrounds.

Sponsors of the Moot The Vis Arbitral Moot is sponsored by the American Arbitration Association, the Internal Arbitral Center of Austrian Federal Economic Chamber ,Australian Center for International Commercial Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators , Chamber of National and International Arbitration of Milan , Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association , China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC),Court of Internal Commercial Arbitration , Romania, German Institute of Arbitration (DIS), International Chamber of Commerce, JAMS, The London Court of International Arbitration , The Moot Alumni Association, the Singapore International Arbitration Center, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce ,Swiss Arbitration Association(ASA), Swiss Chamber’s Arbitration, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law , and the University of Vienna Faculty of Law