The Bilkent University Moot Court team, made up of Faculty of Law senior-year students Muhammed Hanifi Değirmençay, Mustafa Karadaş, Can Sarp Özcan and Nil Zeren Özdemir and junior-year student Ece Nur Yıldız, was among 249 teams to compete in this year’s Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition. The oral argument rounds of the competition took place online April 4-9; at their completion, team member Can Sarp Özcan received an honorable mention in the Martin Domke Best Individual Oralist Award category.
This marked the fourth time a Bilkent student has received an honorable mention in this category of the Vis Moot; previous awardees include Derya Durlu Gürzumar (LLB ’10, LLM ’15), who coached this year’s Moot Court team.
The competition commenced in October 2019 with the drafting of two legal memoranda and culminated in the oral argument rounds in April. Normally held in Vienna, Austria, the oral hearings took place online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.