32nd Vis Moot: Four Medal Rankings for the University of Vienna!

As has been a tradition for many years, more than 350 years again converged on Vienna and Hong Kong shortly before Easter this year to participate in the Willem C. Vis Moot. Having crafted and perfected their arguments – this time, on a failed agreement for the construction of a hydrogen plant – for months, they were eager to test them out in front of tribunals. Once again, the University of Vienna finished with a competitive result and received several awards and honorable mentions.

Among more than 350 universities, the University of Vienna was the only team to win two award categories outright – the David Hunter Award for the Best Memorandum for Claimant in Hong Kong and the Pieter Sanders Award for the same in Vienna – and finished in the medal positions for two more. In Hong Kong, Sophie Egger and Lukas Hellmayr tied in third place for the Neil Kaplan Award for Best Oral Advocate among 473 students, while the team's Memorandum for Respondent was awarded Second Runner-Up of the Fali Nariman Award. With five more Honorable Mentions – inter alia awarded to Varvara Artiukh and Jonas Schneider-Beron for Best Oral Advocate – the University of Vienna received more prizes in a single season than in any year before.

The team of the University of Vienna was made up of Varvara Artiukh, Sophie Hannah Egger, Lukas Hellmayr, Agnes Oppitz, Jonas Schneider-Beron, and Alina Waldenberger. It was coached by Elliot Perkins, Lukas Petschning, Katarina Marko, and Julia Reichstamm, under the mentorship of Professor Christian Koller and Professor Matthias Lehmann.

In recent years, the team has maintained a presence on Linkedin and Instagram, to report about successes and share experiences of participating in the Vis Moot.