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 Bilkent University's Moot Court Team, representing the Faculty of Law, competed at the Sixteenth Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition held in Vienna, Austria between April 3 and 9. For the second year in a row, one of its team members, Derya Durlu, received an Honorable Mention as best individual oralist out of 2,000 law students who came from around the world to compete.
Coached by Prof. Bilgin Tiryakioğlu and Dr. Aslı Elif Gürbüz Usluel, the Bilkent University Moot Court Team, comprised of senior law student Alperen Karaşahin, and junior law students Derya Durlu, Elif Gökşen, Gözde Kitapcı and Didem Doğar, began the task in early October to resolve an international commercial dispute on the sale of cars by resorting to an alternative mechanism: arbitration. After months of arduous research and preparation of written Memoranda, the oral rounds held in Vienna marked the conclusion of the Moot with the case being argued by students in early April before a fictitious Tribunal consisting of esteemed litigators, academics and arbitrators from across the globe.
The Moot hosted over 2,000 students from 57 different countries and 228 law schools this year. Bilkent University's Faculty of Law is the only Turkish University out of three other participating schools from Turkey to have received this acclaim for the past two years, consolidated its ever-increasing international reputation as a prevailing law school.
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