A team from Humboldt University in Berlin emerged as the overall winners by the end of the weekend, while Nilay Caner of the runner-up Istanbul Bilgi team was named Best Oralist.

Maura McNally SC, chair of the Bar Council of Ireland, welcomed teams to Dublin in her opening remarks at the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre.

After four general rounds, the teams proceeding to the semi-finals were Brooklyn Law School, Humboldt University of Berlin Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Team, Istanbul Bilgi University Willem C. Vis Moot Team, and NOVA Vis Moot Team.

Humboldt University and Istanbul Bilgi prevailed in their respective rounds and competed against each other in the final, overseen by an arbitral tribunal composed of Sherlin Tung (董希琳), Niamh Leinwather and Dr Navin G. Ahuja, MCIArb FAIADR.

The competition organisers told Irish Legal News: “The Humboldt team won the final and thus, became winners of the 3rd Dublin Vis Pre Moot, and we extend our congratulations to them and also to the Istanbul Bilgi team as the runners-up.

“Further congratulations to Nilay Caner of the Istanbul Bilgi team for achieving the Best Oralist of the general rounds and also congratulations to Vira Verbishchuk of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine for being runner-up Best Oralist of the general rounds.”

The pre-moot adopts the same format as the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which focuses on international commercial sales law and arbitration and is taking place this year in April.