w88 casino News Network (provided by the Law w88 casino)From October 28 to November 3, 2021, the 14th "International Investment Arbitration Moot" ("FDI Moot"), hosted by the Austrian Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) and hosted by the International Arbitration Center of the Korean Court of Commercial Arbitration (KCAB) in South Korea, successfully completed the online international finals (hereinafter referred to as the "International Competition"). As one of the world's three major English moot court competitions, along with Philip C. Jessup and Willem C. Vis, FDI Moot has extensive influence in the field of international investment law. This international competition went through fierce competition in regional rounds and domestic rounds on all continents around the world. A total of 81 universities won and advanced to participate, including New York University, University of Miami, King's College London, University of Manchester, Moscow Institute of International Relations, University of Buenos Aires and other famous European and American universities. The participating universities in China are among the 12 winning teams in this year's "Simulated International Investment Arbitration Shenzhen Cup" (hereinafter referred to as the "Shenzhen Competition"), among which the w88 casino Law w88 casino team (hereinafter referred to as the "University of International w88 Team") was the national runner-up.
During the one-week schedule, the UIUM team competed against world-famous universities such as Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University of India (runner-up in this year’s South Asia round), Vietnam’s National Diplomatic Academy, Kyoto University in Japan, and Universitas Airlangga in Malaysia (the top four in the last year). They ranked sixth in the first four points matches and advanced to the “Top 32 in the world.” Subsequently, in the knockout round, the University of w88 and Economic Cooperation team went all the way and defeated the Light of Hope University in Indonesia, Singapore Management University and the Government Law w88 casino in Mumbai, India (the third runner-up in this South Asian round).Finally ranked fifth and entered the "Global Top Eight", setting the best record among participating universities from China’s “cross-strait and three places” this year. The main debater of our team, Huang Ruotan, won the awardThe title of “Excellent Debater” in the Global Points Competition。
(All the ICE team: from right: Wang Qing, Bai Qianqian, He Kaiye, Xu Lai, Sun Jiaxuan, Huang Ruoxuan, Ling Fanghao, Kang Zifei)
(The University of International w88 and Economic Cooperation team won the fifth place in the world in the 2021 "International Investment Arbitration Moot Court Competition")
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The University of International w88 representative team is composed of the original members of the previous Shenzhen competition: 2019 students of the undergraduate "Excellent Foreign-related Economic and w88 Law Talents Experimental Class" ("Excellent Experimental Class") Sun Jiaxuan (vice captain) and 2020 student Huang Ruotan served as the main debaters, and 2019 students Ling Fanghao (captain), Xu Lai, He Kaiye and 2019 undergraduate student Bai Qianqian served as researchers. Kang Zifei, a 2018 student of the "Excellence Experimental Class" ("Best Debater" in the first Shenzhen Competition) and Wang Qing, a 2019 student ("Excellent Debater" in the first Shenzhen Competition), serve as student coaches.
(Main debaters of the HKUST team: Sun Jiaxuan (left), Huang Ruotan (right))
Since winning the national runner-up in the Shenzhen competition, this young team, mainly composed of students from the "Excellence Experimental Class" of sophomores and juniors, has fully absorbed the experience and lessons of the domestic competition, constantly polished and improved the court defense statements, and enriched and condensed the content of the pleadings. The whole team overcame all the inconveniences caused by the epidemic, prepared for the competition independently without a mentor, worked together as a team, worked hard, and devoted all their spare time (preparing for more than ten hours a day in the week before the competition), and finally lived up to expectations and won international success.
This international competition officially kicked off on October 28th. In the initial group points competition, the USIOM team relied on its solid search foundation, fluent English expressions and excellent on-the-spot adaptability to defeat Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University of India (runner-up in this year's South Asian Round), Vietnam National Diplomatic Academy (runner-up in this year's Vietnam Domestic Competition) and Kyoto University in Japan. In the end, it ranked first in the points competition group and sixth in the world overall, and successfully advanced to the "Global Top 32" and advanced to the knockout rounds.
(Global points competition: against the Malaysian Universitas Airlangga team)
(The University of w88 and Economic Cooperation team won the sixth place in the world in the points competition)
In the first knockout match on November 1, the University of w88 and Economic Cooperation team defeated the Indonesian University of Hope in the first match and entered the "Global Top 16". In the subsequent "Sixteen to Eight" knockout round, the University of w88 and Economic Cooperation team faced the Singapore Management University (ninth place in this global points competition). The w88 casino has long been at the forefront of the world in major international competitions such as the "International Investment Arbitration Moot Court Competition" and "Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition". Faced with the advantage of their opponents' native English language and their outstanding performance, our team's main debaters Sun Jiaxuan and Huang Ruoxuan responded calmly with their solid professional foundation and skilled court debate skills. They were keenly aware of the subtle flaws in their opponents' arguments, launched powerful rebuttals in a timely manner, and responded to the judges' sharp questions with reason and evidence. They fully demonstrated the breakthroughs, growth and gains in the arduous preparations for the competition in the three months after the end of the domestic competition ("Shenzhen Cup"). In the end, the International w88 casino team won the competition with a more accurate grasp of the facts and applicable laws and advanced to the quarter-finals.
("Sixteen to Eight" knockout round: against the Singapore Management University team)
In the quarter-finals, the University of w88 and Economic Cooperation team met the Kabarak University team from Kenya (the runner-up in this African round). Since the judges in this competition asked few questions, it was difficult to give full play to our team’s inherent advantages in on-the-spot response and professional skills. The debaters of our team still rose to the challenge, faced the challenge head-on, and fully demonstrated the consistent strength and style of the USIM team in a limited time.
(Quarter-final: against Kenya Kabarak University Team)
Although the judges ultimately judged the opponent to be the winner and our team failed to enter the semi-finals, in the competition for fifth place that followed, the two debaters quickly adjusted their state and won the recognition of the judges with concise and concise statements and impeccable responses. They finally defeated the Government Law w88 casino of Mumbai, India (the third runner-up in this South Asian round) and won the fifth place in the world. They became the only team among the universities in China's "cross-strait and three places" to reach the "global top eight".
(Battle for fifth place in the world: against the representative team of Government Law w88 casino, Mumbai, India)
At the same time, as team members from non-English speaking countries, the outstanding performance of the debaters from the University of w88 and Economics has been fully recognized by the judges of the international competition. Among all 255 debaters who participated in the international competition, Huang Ruotan, who was responsible for procedural issues, was awarded the title of "Excellent Debater" in the global points competition, ranking 31st; Sun Jiaxuan, who was responsible for substantive issues, ranked 38th.They both entered the top 15% of the world, ranked first among the nearly thirty Chinese college debaters participating in this international competition.
(Main debater Huang Ruotan won the title of "Excellent Debater" in the global points competition)
(Main debaters Sun Jiaxuan and Huang Ruotan both entered the top 15% of global debaters rankings)
Whether they were the runner-up in the country in the previous Shenzhen competition or the fifth place in the world in this international competition, these are examples of students from AFFIU achieving great results at home and abroad in international moot court competitions. Taking FDI Moot as an example, since the first competition in 2017, w88 casino has hired Eric Ng, a part-time professor at the time, as an instructor to lead the students of FDI Moot into the "Global top four" (2017) and "Global top eight” (2018), which laid the competitive foundation for the FDI competition team. Until last year, the increasingly mature FDI student coaching staff led the team to win many awards such as the national championship, "Best Debater" and "Excellent Debater" in the first Shenzhen Competition.
The excellent performance of the International w88 casino team in the international moot court competition is due to our institute’s long-term emphasis on and continuous investment in the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents. The w88 casino has always been committed to cultivating practical high-end foreign-related legal talents that the country urgently needs, and regards international subject competitions in the field of law as an important position to achieve this goal. Looking at the composition of each competition team at the University of International w88,Students in the undergraduate excellence experimental class are the indispensable main force. On the one hand, this is due to w88 casino's "selecting the best from the best" foreign-related talent training model, and on the other hand, it relies on the ideal sentiments of previous outstanding experimental class students who are determined to win glory for the country and the practical self-discipline of hard-working professional skills.
Looking back on the seven-month competition process, Huang Ruotan, the main debater of this year’s International w88 casino team and the “outstanding debater” in the international competition, concluded: “When I first joined the University of International w88 and Economics team, I was just a freshman student and knew very little about international investment law. It is the unique and diverse English major course of the Excellence Experimental Class. The atmosphere of friendly competition and mutual support among the students in the class, as well as the encouragement from the seniors and sisters of the previous experimental classes based on their own professional growth experience, gave me the confidence to give it a try and pushed me all the way to where I am today.”The University of International w88’s Excellent Experimental Class has always attached great importance to the strengthening and improvement of students’ English professional abilities, and is committed to promoting the integration of Chinese and Western legal knowledge reserves, improving cross-cultural professional communication skills, and broadening international horizons. The brilliant performance of this year’s International w88 casino team on the international stage is just a shining epitome of the fruitful results cultivated by the Excellent Experimental Class.
The good results achieved by the HKUST team this year are inseparable from the support of our institute’s “Moot Court Club” and the influence of the HKUST Moot Court culture. Under the positive guidance of the college, after long-term practical exploration, the "Moot Court Club" of our college has gradually formed an excellent style of "passing, helping, and leading" and a unique "Student-led, each team helps each other" preparation mode. It has become a common practice among the competition teams to actively share competition experience, fully exchange professional knowledge and mutually assist in court debate exercises. It is the active support and collaboration from student coaches, previous players and friendly teams. With their help, this year’s International w88 casino team has achieved greater success on the international stage. The team’s student coaches Kang Zifei and Wang Qing have participated in the whole process and taught them court debate skills. Since the Shenzhen competition, the Jessup team’s Wang Ziwen, Zhou Xingyan, Liu Ben, Zhou Xiaoyu and Wang Feifei, Ge Yue, Deng Chuyu, and Yao Huanjia from the Elsa team, Yan Beichen from the Price team, Ren Xiaohan from the Vis team, and former student coaches and team members of the FDI competition team Chen Zhenling and Liu Hong Hao, Wang Ziqian, Su Jingyao, Liu Chenxiao, Guan Xin, Zhang Yutong, Chen Sihao, Lu Haipeng, Cheng Jiawen and other students all provided important support and assistance in writing letters and practical training, and made positive contributions in professional Q&A and sharing of competition preparation experience.
From the unfortunate defeat to the opponent in the Shenzhen competition and failure to defend the championship to the fifth place in the world in the international competition, the USIM team grew up amidst setbacks, fought hard in the face of adversity, and finally achieved transcendence on the international platform. We sincerely thank Dean Mei Xiaying and Vice Dean Gong Hongliu for their guidance and encouragement. We would like to thank Associate Professor Arthur Chiu and Professor Chi Manjiao of our college for their careful guidance. We would also like to thank Associate Professor Li Fenghua and Professor Chen Weidong for their valuable suggestions. We would also like to thank Director Jiang Tingting and teachers Zheng Jun, Tian Tian, Wang Shanshan, and Zou Wei from the college office for their unstinting support and assistance in logistical support and external publicity.
In addition, we sincerely thank Mr. Eric Ng, who was once an adjunct professor in our college, for his foundational contribution to the development of the International Moot Court Competition of the University of International w88. I believe that students of the University of w88 and Economics who are interested in this will use the results of this international competition as a ladder to continue climbing, work tirelessly, make new achievements, and add new splendor to the foreign-related education career of the University of w88 and Economics.
