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Awards in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

For the general information on the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, see Willem C. Vis Moot.

frame|Vis Moot Four Awards are annually given in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: The Pieter Sanders Award, the Werner Melis Award, the Martin Domke Award and the Frédéric Eisemann Award, the latter being awarded to the best prevailing team in the oral rounds (the "Winner of the Moot").

Pieter Sanders Award for the Best Memorandum for Claimant

The Pieter Sanders Award is given for the Best Memorandum on behalf of the Claimant. During the first three Moots, the Pieter Sanders Award was given for the Best Written Memoranda in support of the positions of Claimant and Respondent. (Subsequently, the Werner Melis Award was introduced as a separate award for the memorandum in support of the Respondent.)

The Award has been named after Professor Pieter Sanders (*1913), who is widely regarded as the "father" of modern international commercial arbitration. He was one of the principal drafters of both the 1958 United Nations Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award (the "New York Convention") and the 1976 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Professor Sanders was also founder of the Law Faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam (where he taught up to his retirement in 1981) and co-founder of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the Netherlands Arbitration Institute.

In the Second Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held in Vienna in 1995, he served as one of the three arbitrators in the Finals.

Moot	Year	Winner of the Pieter Sanders Award
1st	1994	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
2nd	1995	University of Basel
3rd	1996	University of Cologne
4th	1997	University of Copenhagen
5th	1998	University of Münster
6th	1999	University of Basel
7th	2000	Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
8th	2001	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
9th	2002	University of Queensland
10th	2003	University of Bonn
11th	2004	tie: Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg; University of Zurich
12th	2005	University of Copenhagen
13th	2006	tie: Columbia University; University of Munich
14th	2007	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th	2008	University of California, Berkeley
16th	2009	University of Sydney
17th	2010	University of New South Wales

Werner Melis Award for the Best Memorandum for Respondent

The Werner Melis Award is given for the Best Written Memorandum for Respondent. Unlike the three other awards in the Competition, this award did not exist during the first three Moots (1994-1996), but was only introduced in 1997. (During the first three Moots, the Pieter Sanders Award was given for the Best Written Memoranda in support of the positions of Claimant and Respondent.)

The Award has been named after DDr. Werner Melis (* 1935), President of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Vienna), Honorary Vice-President of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and a long-time supporter of the Vis Arbitration Moot.

The award is traditionally presented by Dr. Melis himself during the awards banquet concluding each Vienna Arbitration Moot.

Moot	Year	Winner of the Werner Melis Award
1st	1994	-
2nd	1995	-
3rd	1996	-
4th	1997	Deakin University
5th	1998	University of Münster
6th	1999	University of Basel
7th	2000	Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
8th	2001	University of Zagreb
9th	2002	University of Mainz
10th	2003	University of Cologne
11th	2004	National University of Singapore
12th	2005	Humboldt University of Berlin
13th	2006	University of Munich
14th	2007	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th	2008	University of Heidelberg
16th	2009	Stockholm University
17th	2010	University of New South Wales

Martin Domke Award for the Best Individual Oralist during the General Rounds

The Martin Domke Award is awarded to the Best Individual Oralist during the general rounds. This award for the general rounds of the Competition (i.e. the four oral hearings of each team on Saturday through Tuesday) will be won by the individual advocate with the highest average score during these rounds. To be eligible for this award a participant must have argued at least once for the Claimant and once for the Respondent.

The Award has been named after Martin Domke (1892-1980), Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University and a well-known scholar of international arbitration. Professor Domke was Vice President of the American Arbitration Association for 25 years and served as editor in chief of the Arbitration Journal. He also was the author of "Commercial Arbitration," published in 1965, and "The Law and Practice of Commercial Arbitration," published in 1968.

Moot	Year	Winner of the Martin Domke Award
1st	1994	Gregor Kirchhof, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
2nd	1995	Chantal Niggemann, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
3rd	1996	Kay-Jannes Wegner, University of Cologne
4th	1997	Camilla Andersen, University of Copenhagen
5th	1998	Biljana Dischlieva, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel
6th	1999	Carmen Klein, University of Cologne
7th	2000	Jan Stemplewitz, University of Münster
8th	2001	Trevor Stockinger, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles
9th	2002	tie: Marion Alice Jane Isobel, University of Queensland; Robina Kaye, University of Montpellier
10th	2003	tie: Andrew Molnar, Deakin University; Simun Soljo, University of New South Wales
11th	2004	Alexey Konovalov, Mari State University
12th	2005	tie: Charmaine Roberts, University of New South Wales; Anna-Maria Tamminen, University of Vienna
13th	2006	Sonu Dhanju, Osgoode Hall Law School
14th	2007	Steven Wayne Hopkins, Southern Methodist University
15th	2008	Lennart Beckhaus, University of Münster
16th	2009	Oliver Jones, The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn
17th	2010	Antonia Füller, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

Frédéric Eisemann Award for the Best Team Orals (Winner of the Moot)

The winner of the oral rounds at Vienna is awarded the Frédéric Eisemann Award for the best prevailing team in the oral rounds. It is the most prestigious award in the Competition (designating the "Winner of the Moot").

The Award has been named after Frédéric Eisemann (1908- ), the highly respected former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (1947-1973).

Moot	Year	Winner of the Frédéric Eisemann Award
1st	1994	Columbia University
2nd	1995	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
3rd	1996	Cornell University
4th	1997	University of Queensland
5th	1998	University of Münster
6th	1999	Deakin University
7th	2000	University of Queensland
8th	2001	Monash University
9th	2002	National University of Singapore
10th	2003	National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
11th	2004	Osgoode Hall Law School
12th	2005	Stetson University
13th	2006	Queen Mary, University of London
14th	2007	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
15th	2008	Carlos III University of Madrid
16th	2009	Victoria University of Wellington
17th	2010	King's College London

Award-Winning Teams (1994-2010)

In the 17 years the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot has been conducted, a total of 70 awards have been given:

• 19 Pieter Sanders Awards (in 2004 and 2006 there was a tie, so two awards were given in those years),
• 14 Werner Melis Awards (since this award did not exist until the 4th Moot in 1997),
• 20 Martin Domke Awards (three ties, in 2002, 2003 and 2005) and
• 17 Frederic Eisemann Awards.

Out of the approximately 270 universities that have sent teams to the Vis Moot in the past, only 36 have ever received an award (or more).

The List of Award-Winning Teams shown in the table below only covers the actual awards, not second and third places or honorable mentions. It counts all awards given since the inaugural Vis Moot held in 1994 up to the 17th Vis Moot (2010).

The Rank is based on the overall number of awards collected by the teams representing each university over the years. It not only includes the Sanders Awards, the Melis Awards and the Eisemann Awards, but also the Domke Awards, although the latter award is technically given to an individual member of the team, not the team as a whole. Whenever two (or more) teams have collected the same number of awards, a team which has received an Eisemann Award is ranked higher than the teams which have not (since the Eisemann Award designates the Winner of the Moot). Furthermore, teams which have received a team award (Sanders and Melis Awards) are ranked higher than those teams which have not (i.e. where a team member has received a Domke Award).

Rank	Team	Country	Sanders	Melis	Domke	Eisemann (Moot Winner)	Award Total	Participations
1	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg	Germany	3	1	3	2	9
5	University of Cologne	Germany	1	1	2	0	4
8	University of Basel	Switzerland	2	1	0	0	3
22	University of Bonn	Germany	1	0	0	0	1
9	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	2	0	1	0	3
2	University of Münster	Germany	1	1	2	1	5
4	Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg	Germany	2	2	0	0	4
22	University of Zurich	Switzerland	1	0	0	0	1
3	University of Queensland	Australia	1	0	1	2	4
10	Columbia University	United States	1	0	0	1	2
13	University of Munich	Germany	1	1	0	0	2
22	University of California, Berkeley	United States	1	0	0	0	1
22	University of Sydney	Australia	1	0	0	0	1
5	University of New South Wales	Australia	1	1	2	0	4
7	Deakin University	Australia	0	1	1	1	3
22	University of Zagreb	Croatia	0	1	0	0	1
22	University of Mainz	Germany	0	1	0	0	1
10	National University of Singapore	Singapore	0	1	0	1	2
22	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	0	1	0	0	1
22	Stockholm University	Sweden	0	1	0	0	1
30	Christian Albrechts University of Kiel	Germany	0	0	1	0	1
30	Loyola Law School Los Angeles	United States	0	0	1	0	1
30	University of Montpellier	France	0	0	1	0	1
30	Mari State University	Russia	0	0	1	0	1
30	University of Vienna	Austria	0	0	1	0	1
12	Osgoode Hall Law School	Canada	0	0	1	1	2
30	Southern Methodist University	United States	0	0	1	0	1
30	The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn	United Kingdom	0	0	1	0	1
14	Cornell University	United States	0	0	0	1	1
14	Monash University	Australia	0	0	0	1	1
14	National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata	India	0	0	0	1	1
14	Stetson University	United States	0	0	0	1	1
14	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom	0	0	0	1	1
14	Carlos III University of Madrid	Spain	0	0	0	1	1
14	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	0	0	0	1	1
14	King's College London	United Kingdom	0	0	0	1	1

See also

• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna Official Website
• Moot Alumni Association (MAA), the Alumni Association of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot