NUS Law emerges as Champions for the International Bar Association-Vienna International Arbitral Centre Mediation and Negotiation Competition 2021!

L to R: Chan You Quan ’22, Vivien Tan ’24, Charmaine Sng ’22, Jeriel Teo ’24

The Competition took place virtually from 10th to 14th July which saw 33 shortlisted international student teams from different countries such as Brazil, the United States, Israel, Germany, India, and Italy. The team came face to face with the University of Sydney in the Grand Finals in an exciting rematch after meeting them in the Preliminary Rounds, and managed to emerge as Champions of the overall competition.

The problem was based on the arbitration case of the Willem C. VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Participants had to negotiate a commercially realistic outcome between two pharmaceutical companies. The problem is centred around an intellectual property dispute for the research, development, and production of a viral vector COVID-19 vaccine.

Congratulations to Chan You Quan ’22, Vivien Tan ’24, Charmaine Sng ’22 and Jeriel Teo ’24!

The team is grateful to their coach Utsav Rakshit ‘21 for his guidance, and they also wish to thank Professor Joel Lee, Nikhil Angappan ’21, Samuel Teo ’21, Eugene Lau ’21, Jonathan Lee ’21, Tan Pei Han ’22, Sarfaroj Ahmed Malik ’24 and Mark Lim ’19 for their generous support along the way.