我院代表队在第十四届“贸仲杯”国际商事仲裁模拟仲裁庭辩论赛中喜获季军

11月21日至25日，第十四届“贸仲杯”国际商事仲裁模拟仲裁庭辩论赛在京举行。经过5天循环赛、淘汰赛、半决赛和决赛等多场比赛激烈的角逐，我院Vis代表队在本次比赛中获得季军，仅次于清华大学法学院和对外经济贸易大学法学院，赢得了赴维也纳参加国际比赛的资格，保持了我校在“贸仲杯”参赛史上的优异成绩。

本届贸仲杯由北京中国国际经济贸易仲裁委员会举办，吸引了国内40所多著名高等院校的46支代表队400余名选手参加比赛，由来自10多个国家级地区的约100名中外仲裁员、律师和专家担任评委。我院代表队由John H. Aycock老师作为指导教师，2015级蔡金兰、秦士杰、周容宇、郭馨等四名同学组成。我院代表队在比赛中充分展示了法律研究方面深厚的功力，获得了仲裁员和其他参赛队伍的盛赞，最终获得了总分第三的佳绩。

作为国内最有影响力的模拟商事仲裁比赛，“贸仲杯”比赛自2000年至今已成功举办了十四届，是面向全国法学院校的仲裁法律专业年度竞赛。比赛采用模拟商事仲裁中提交书面与开庭审理的形式，突出理论与实务的结合，对于在校法学院学生提高法律实践水平、提升实战能力均有很大的帮助，得到了参赛学校和选手的积极支持和一致好评。自2013年参加“贸仲杯”比赛以来，我院代表队连续获得2013年和2014年的冠军以及2015年和今年的季军，逐渐成为这场赛事中不可忽视的强劲对手。正如蔡金兰所说：“当我看到很多人涌进房间为了观看我们比赛，我不由得对STL感到骄傲。”

对于参加过两次“贸仲杯”比赛的郭馨而言，整场比赛并非单纯地分胜负，更多是关乎个人能力的发展。她说，比赛会让你发现你在国法的所学有多少。在四分之一决赛中获得“最佳辩手奖”的周容宇对此表示认同，“开始为VIS作准备的时候，我甚至不知道仲裁是什么。当我重新审视自己的所学，我很感激学院及教练给予的全方位支持。”这次的荣誉不仅仅是团队合作的成果，更有赖于强调合作与求知欲的学院文化。

秦士杰说，“当我和搭档受到仲裁员问题轰炸的那一瞬间，我突然意识到STL每天紧密的训练对此多有帮助。进入STL学习是我人生中做过最好的选择之一了。参加这次的“贸仲杯”再一次证明了这一点。”

作为此次比赛的指导老师，STL讲师John Aycock说道：“除了在比赛中展现非凡的智力和能力，在比赛之外，我们的代表队也显得十分注目。他们尊重仲裁员和其他院校的选手，诚恳而热忱，不负我对STL学子的期望。能够担任他们的指导老师是一件很棒的事情，我常常觉得自己从他们身上收获的比他们从我身上收获的要多。他们让我认为在STL教学是一次很神奇的经验。”

据悉，我院代表队将在2017年4月赴维也纳参加国际决赛。再次祝贺我院代表队在“贸仲杯”中取得的优异成绩，并预祝他们再接再厉，在国际舞台上展现我院学子的风采，取得可喜的成绩！

Recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award, Yu Yadian applauded the students for their ability to balance the competition and STL’s heavy workload. Remembering her own participation in Vis, she also spoke of the competition’s intangible rewards: “This experience is much more than a few rounds of oral arguments and a mountain of documents, and I am sure it will benefit them in a profound way, as it has benefitted me.”

As faculty coach to the team, it is worth stressing that, in addition to displaying superior intellect and skill in the rounds, the students conducted themselves as noteworthy outside the moot court room. With both students from other schools and arbitrators, they were respectful, cordial, and warm–in short, all that I have come to expect from STL. It has been wonderful to coach such dedicated and inspiring students, and I often feel I ended up learning more from them than they did from me. I will never forget the memories we shared together, from staying up late in the hotel to learn the results from the preliminaries, to hearing the decision in the semifinals. The students are what make teaching at STL a magical experience.

Although certainly deserved, there is little time for rest. The students already have their sights set on April when they will travel to Vienna to compete in the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Cai Jinlan is looking forward to “another amazing journey to Vienna,” and Zhou Rongyu anticipates even more fun in Europe. Speaking for the team, Qin Shijie summed up the entire experience as an “unparalleled adventure” that the team takes together.

That adventure has just begun.

(Special thanks to C.V. Starr Lecturer and Vis Team Coach John Aycock for authoring this news.)