MarcAnthony Bonanno, who volunteers with Africa in the Moot as a moot court coach for the University of Cape Town’s Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot court team, organized a virtual moot competition on February 4 between the University of Cape Town, Columbia Law School, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Charleston School of Law, and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
The event aimed to help each university team prepare for the annual Vis Moot competition held in Vienna in April. In organizing the virtual event, MarcAnthony secured the participation of 20 volunteer arbitrators from several countries, including Georgia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Kenya, Panama, and the United States—including Kimberly Metzger and Brendan Ashe. Kim also served as arbitrator for the final round, in which Pace University’s Claimant’s team beat out Columbia Law School’s team.