Rosenberg International Commercial Arbitration Student Competition

The Rosenberg contest, which was founded in 2014, is an annual international student competition in international commercial arbitration that is held in the format of game-based model arbitration proceedings. The competition is organized by the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The competition is named after Professor Mikhail Rosenberg, one of the creators of the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and an arbitrator in the International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. During the competition, the two best teams will speak at oral arbitration hearings about one of the competition’s game-based cases before a jury comprised of leading arbitrators from the ICAC and representatives of the professional legal community. Following the hearings, arbitrators, students, graduate students, and representatives of arbitration centres and law firms will exchange views on the role of moot courts (arbitration training competitions) in the professional development of young lawyers.