Frankfurt Drafting School

This week we took part in the Drafting School in Frankfurt. We came to the IG-Farben building of the Goethe-University and were pleasantly welcomed by the organizers. Teams from different cities participated in the 10^thAnnual Frankfurt Drafting School. On the first day, we have heard a lecture on the  CISG with Prof. Huber from Mainz. He gave us helpful case examples and told us about his experience as arbitrator in Vienna. On the second day, there was a workshop on drafting a memorandum. We got a deep insight on how to write a persuasive memorandum. The lecturers gave us usable hints to effectively structure our arguments to guide the reader. The last day was a practical day. We received the 16^th Moot case and structured our arguments to represent claimant in the case. After it, we discussed two of the results in the plenum.

It was a great experience to participate in the Frankfurt Drafting School. We met other Moot Teams, learned a lot about Arbitration and we came closer as a team.

Kai Wettlaufer

Field Trip

On the 21^st September 2014 the JLU Moot Team went for a field trip in Marburg, which was planned by the coaches so we could spend some time together in order to know each other better. During our day in Marburg, we had to accomplish some tasks as a group. From the eight tasks settled by our coaches, we were able to accomplish six. Unfortunately, the weather was not good and didn’t help us, but we could also get a little warm when we had lunch at Early’s and later had a pie at Café Vetter. Most of all, I believe we accomplished the main task: to get to know each other better. We, for the first time, talked more about ourselves and about our impressions on the Moot until now, and about our feelings concerning it.

Cláudia Scalco Franke

05th and 06th September - Gießener Team Arbitration Workshop

This was the project we had to deal with in the last week. Unfortunately, the Düsseldorf International Arbitration School did not take place in 2014, which is the reason why we had to do our own Arbitration Workshop. It is also out of question that we have to be experts in ICC, UNCITRAL Model Law, NYC and CISG before the Moot case comes out in October! Our coaches gave us four topics, which we had to prepare for the Workshop. We worked in pairs and used the books in our Moot room for preparation. It was a great possibility to get an insight in the literature, which we will have to use for our Memorandum. After some days researching on the internet, leafing through many books and writing the hand out, we finally had to present it. It up to us how we would like to present our topics, e.g. Julian and Claudia used PowerPoint, whereas Kai and I decided to create a small questionnaire for our listeners. So finally, we had our own Arbitration Workshop and we are very proud of it! We all notice that the Moot is “real”; the date of release of the case comes closer!

Daria Michel

25th August 2014 - First meeting in the Moot Room

On the 25^th of August 2014 the Moot team of the JLU had its first official meeting in the moot room. It was  also the first time we met our fourth and last team member Claudia. So from now on, the family can be described as complete. To get to know each other, we basically introduced ourselves to each other by telling who we are, where we are from and why we wanted to participate in the Moot. After some decisions about future events, like the Frankfurt Drafting School, the coaches told us the most important principles to be successful as a team: availability, communication, respect, responsibility and organization. Good teamwork is also one of the most important keys to success in this competition.

In short: There is no “I” in team. This means that from now on we no longer exist as individuals but as a team that hopes to achieve much in this Moot.

Julian Schulte