Moot Programs
The International Student Competition by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration
PSU participates in the international student competition organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA Int. Arabic Moot)
The university, represented by the College of Law, participated in the international student competition organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA Int. Arabic Moot) virtually, with the participation of 88 universities out of 20 countries, as it included 110 teams with 780 students and supervisors. The University team included both male and female students. The competition aimed to provide students with the skills of drafting legal notes, oral advocacy skills, and qualifying students for future arbitration.
The participation was as follows: The female team: Rawan Abdel-Wahhab Bahmran, Abeer Hassan Al-Dosari, Yara Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Lujain Khaled Al-Aqeel, Ghada Abdulaziz Al-Moataz, and Lama Bint Mustafa Bin Mushait.
The male team: Muhammad Saad Al-Haqbani, Mansour Muhammad Al-Shaalan, Turki bin Abdul-Ilah Al Ateeq, Ahmed Muhammad Akour, Abdul Majeed bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan, and Muhammad bin Fahd Al-Issa. Professor Hussein Shehada al-Hussein and Dr. Ilham Jihad al-Saleh provided the students with supervision and training.
Both teams played the roles of the claimant and the respondent in an arbitration case for an energy contract. The team's work on this case began with its publication on the 1st of October 2022. Both teams joined in the oral arguments held from 13 to 18 May 2023, the male team reached the 32 round, and the female team reached the 16 round.
The team's supervisors, Professor Hussein Shehada Al-Hussein and Dr. Ilham Jihad Al-Saleh, also commended the team's readiness and training efforts, in addition to the support of His Excellency the Dean of the College of Law to the team during the past eight months.
On this occasion, Professor Hussein Shehada stated that compared to the participating teams, the PSU team received the largest number of awards at the level of Arab and Saudi teams participating in the international commercial arbitration competition, where the female students team won the second-place award for the best memorandum on the plaintiff. The female students also won the fourth-place award for the best memorandum on the defendant. The female student team won the fifth-place award for the best memorandum on the defendant. Prince Sultan University team is the top one in memoir awards among participating teams by winning these three awards. In addition, student Rowan Hamran won the ninth-place award as the best plaintiff.
About the Moot Program
Moot Program at the College of Law
The College's interest in participating in VIS Moot Competition began in the academic year 2018-2019. With the support and patronage of His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Yamani, the President of PSU, the College has formed the first moot team in the history of the College. Dr. Emna Chikhaoui, the College’s Vice Dean, was appointed to supervise the moot team composed only of female students..
The team participated in mock trial which took place in March 2018 in Bahrain, and later participated in VIS Moot Competition in Vienna. The results were satisfactory given that the experience is new to the participating students and the coaches. In the same year and during the ceremony of signing the MOU between PSU and the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration, the team were honored by the Center for their representation of universities in Saudi Arabia.
Dean of the College of Law Dr. Fahad Almajid and The CEO of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration Dr. Hamid bin Hassan Mira
The moot was officially established as program on 1. September 2019, when the Dean of the College of Law, Dr. Fahad Mohammed Almajid, appointed Dr. Zlatan Meškić as the PSU moot coach. Later in September, Ms. Rasha Odeh became a co-coach for both teams.
How to become a member of the Moot Team
If you wish to become a member of the moot team ( the Vis moot team or the SCCA Arabic Moot Team), please send your CV to zmeskic@psu.edu.sa with the information on your education, language skills, average grade and other information you deem to be useful. The teams are established every year before 1. September, although the selection process starts each year already at June 1. You can still send your applications until 1. September.
Invitation to Become a Mootie for Season 2019/2020
In early September 2019 a video invitation was published to become a member of the PSU moot team. You can watch the invitation here:
The preparations start on 1. June each year with an online training in international commercial contracts and international commercial arbitration. The online preparations include writing a claim and doing several online pleadings. The sessions are recorded so that students joining later can catch up.
The invitation was a great success. More than 60 applicants attended preparatory lectures on International Commercial Arbitration held by Prof Dr. Zlatan Meskic, the moot coordinator of the PSU. Ms. Rasha Odeh was added to the moot coaching team and became the main co-coach for both moot teams.
On 24 and 25 September, a selection committee from the College of Law has chosen 8 best students for the Vis moot team, 6 best members of the female Arabic moot team and 3 best members for the male Arabic moot team based on their written submission, average grade, oral presentation and experience.
Skills, Goals and Opportunities
Students participating in the moot program foremost acquire practical research skills for a professional environment, persuasive legal writing styles and advocacy skills. The students will have a better understanding of the key concepts underpinning contracts for the international sale of goods and international commercial arbitration. The emphasis is on WRITTEN and ORAL ADVICACY SKILLS on a very high level. The moot program is a program of excellence. This does not mean that students have to be at an excellent level before joining. Students should be highly motivated. In more detail the skills acquired are:
- Legal writing skills: writing a claim and statement of defense in international commercial arbitration
- Oral pleadings - engaging the theory to the reality when pleading before real arbitrators from all over the world.
- Legal research: comparative law, international law, case law, commentaries and books with access to international data bases.
- Communication skills built by working in a team and many connections with the other teams, coaches and experts, law offices and arbitrators.
- Motivation – mooties are highly appreciated on the market with job and scholarship opportunities.
The Programs
Prince Sultan University Students Organize First SCCA Pre-moot
Throughout May 8-10, 2022, the College of Law hosted the first Hybrid Pre-Moot in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at Prince Sultan University, lead by former mooties Dareen Abdulkareem and Mohammed AlEissa, in preparation for the SCCA Moot competition with the participation of 12 international & national teams and over 35 arbitrators. The Pre Moot kicked off on the first day with a opening statement from our Dean Dr. Abdulaziz Altuwaijri and our Chair Prof. Dr. Zlatan Meskic, followed by workshops on the issues of the case presented by Sultan AlMutairi and Turki Almouniefy, and a panel discussion on multi tier clauses with Mohammed AlDhabaan, Dr. Abdullah Alajlan, and Nasser Alrubayyi. It then continued for two consecutive days holding 24 rounds of pleadings which were arbitrated by practitioners from AlDhabaan & Partners, Al Tamimi & Company, Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm (AS&H) in co-operation with Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co, Khoshaim & Associates, Dentons, Al Amr Bin Ali & Partners Law Firm (ABPLF), Eyad Reda Law Firm, as well as some of our professors namely, Dr. Abdulmalik Altamimi, Ms. Rasha Odeh, Dr. Mohamad Albakjaji, Dr. Hussein AlHussein, Dr. Elham Saleh, and Dr. Ouarda Layachi.
Prince Sultan University Participation in the International Commercial Arbitration Competition (SCCA Moot)
The College of Law at Prince Sultan University will participate in the international commercial arbitration competition organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA) that enjoys wide international participation with two teams from the male and female departments. Each competing team will simulate the roles of plaintiff and respondent, by submitting written notes of the case no later than February 15, 2023. After completing the written submissions, the teams will move on to prepare for oral arguments before a selection of international arbitrators, starting in mid-May 2023. Participating in the competition is a unique opportunity for participants to acquire skills in the field of arbitration, drafting notes, pleadings, contracts, and scientific research. The competition teams are supervised by: Prof. Hussein Al-Hussein and Dr. Ilham Saleh. The female student team consists of: Ghada Abdulaziz Al-Moataz, Lama Mustafa Bin Mushayt, Lujain Khaled Al-Aqeel, Rawan Abdel-Wahhab Bahmran, Yara Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Abeer Hassan Al-Dosari. The male student team consists of: Abdul Majid Fawzan Al-Fawzan, Mansour Muhammad Al-Shaalan, Turki bin Abdul-Ilah Al Ateeq Ahmed Muhammad Akour, Muhammad Fahd Al-Issa, Muhammad Saad Al-Haqbani.
The SCCA 3rd Moot Competition
The SCCA 3rd Moot Competition (International Edition), it was organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration, aimed at Sharia and Law Bachelor Students from universities all over the world. It is the first Arabic language Moot Competition that went international, where a total of 444 students competed in 84 teams, from 64 universities from different countries from all over the world. We are proud that our PSU team which consisted of Aljoharah AlTuwaijri, Almunthir AlZahrani, Hind AlSaif & Leena AlTuwaijri won 9th Place for Best Memorandum for Claimant out of 84 teams. In addition, our two pleaders Aljoharah AlTuwaijri & Almunthir AlZahrani, made it to Quarterfinals, and ranked within the (Top 8) teams out of 84 teams and 444 pleaders. This success wouldn’t be possible without the support of our dean Dr. Abdulaziz AlTuwaijri, our coach Prof. Zlatan Meskic and our student co-coachs Dareen Abdulkareem & Mohammed AlEissa.
Arabic Arbitration moot (SCCA)
A competition organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration aimed at male and female students of the bachelor’s degree from the colleges of Sharia, law and regulations in Saudi universities. In June 2020 the PSU Moot Teams (Male-Female) have won first place in three main categories of the first KSA Arbitration Moot Competition in Arabic language organized by Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA);
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VIS moot (Vienna)
The VIS moot team PSU 2019/2020 holds first meeting on 15 September 2019 after 8 students have been selected out of over 50 applicants (see photo below). Prof. Dr. Zlatan Meskic is the head coach, Ms. Rasha Odeh is the Co- coach. The team started its preparation for the most prestigious competition for students of law . . .
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Competition (SCCA Arabic Moot)
A competition organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration aimed at male and female students of the bachelor’s degree from the colleges of Sharia, law and regulations in Saudi universities.
Which is considered the first of its kind in the world in the Arabic language in this size, where 210 male and female students competed in 39 teams from colleges of Sharia, law and regulations from 24 universities from 18 cities from all over the Kingdom under the supervision of 68 PhDs and doctors in addition to 17 trainers and trainers with practical practice in competitions International.
SCCA pre-moot
Throughout May 8-10, 2022, the College of Law hosted the first Hybrid Pre-Moot in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at Prince Sultan University, lead by former mooties Dareen Abdulkareem and Mohammed AlEissa, in preparation for the SCCA Moot competition with the participation of 12 international & national teams and over 35 arbitrators.
The Pre Moot kicked off on the first day with a opening statement from our Dean Dr. Abdulaziz Altuwaijri and our Chair Prof. Dr. Zlatan Meskic, followed by workshops on the issues of the case presented by Sultan AlMutairi and Turki Almouniefy, and a panel discussion on multi tier clauses with Mohammed AlDhabaan, Dr. Abdullah Alajlan, and Nasser Alrubayyi.
It then continued for two consecutive days holding 24 rounds of pleadings which were arbitrated by practitioners from AlDhabaan & Partners, Al Tamimi & Company, Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm (AS&H) in co-operation with Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co, Khoshaim & Associates, Dentons, Al Amr Bin Ali & Partners Law Firm (ABPLF), Eyad Reda Law Firm, as well as some of our professors namely, Dr. Abdulmalik Altamimi, Ms. Rasha Odeh, Dr. Mohamad Albakjaji, Dr. Hussein AlHussein, Dr. Elham Saleh, and Dr. Ouarda Layachi.
Early Stages
06/11/2019
the College of Law received the coverage file for the training program, which was organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration.
Prince Sultan University hosted the activities of the first edition of the Commercial Arbitration Competition in the Arabic language for male and female students of colleges of Sharia, law and regulations in universities in which participants compete to plead in a hypothetical arbitration case that simulates international trade issues and that will hone the legal and personal skills that participants need to plead before international arbitration bodies And raise their personal and knowledge competence, legal and legal, which was organized by the university in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration. Read more
19/01/2020
The Dean of the College of Law, Dr. Fahad Al-Majid, met the college team selecetd to particpate and represnet the college for the local commercial arbitration competition, organized by the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration for the first time in Saudi Arabia between local universities.
There were two teams, male team and female team, each will represent the college in the competetion, and both were supervised by Dr. Zlatan and co coatched by Ms. Oudah.
The meeting focused on discussing the level of progress and challenges the team faces to ensure distinguished participation in the first competition of its kind locally.
Goals
- Learn the rules of international arbitration and the procedures followed therein.
- Practical application of the curriculum and download it in practice.
- To develop students' abilities to confront the public and self-confidence and to present and defend their ideas in arbitration cases.
- Enhance presentation, presentation and recall skills in arbitration sessions.
- Embodying the importance of rules and procedures in understanding and practicing.
- Create and encourage a spirit of fair competition among students to reach the final stages of competition.
Skills Acquired
Participants gain many skills from competition, including:
- Opening a wide door for distinguished employment opportunities after graduation
- Qualifying students to practice arbitration in the future
- Gain work experience after graduation
- The student acquires the ability to write pleadings notes and pleading skills before the jury
Dates and Deadlines
- September 01, 2019 - The 2019/2020 competition started with the publication of the moot case.
- October 14-18, 2019 - SCCA Arbitration conference (see photo) and arbitration training hosted by PSU
- December 7, 2020 - deadline for submission of Claimant memo.
- February 15, 2020 - deadline for submission of Respondent memo
- June 20-25, 2020 - oral pleadings (online)
Recent Activity
The PSU Female Team has also won first place for Best Written Memorandum for Claimant.
From the left students’ names: AlJohara Alsaadoun, Noura Alabduljabbar , Abeer Alsaif, Reem Almaiman
Coach’s Ms.Rasha Odeh and Prof Dr. Zlatan Meskic
The PSU Male Team has won first place for Best Written Memorandum for Respondent.
From the left students’ names: Saud Alyousef, Turki Almouniefy
Coaches: Dr. Abdulaziz Aleid and Prof Dr. Zlatan Meskic
The PSU Female moot team has won first place for the Best Team of the whole competition.
From the left students’ names: Abeer Alsaif, Al Johara Alsaadoun, Noura Alabduljabbar ,Reem Almaiman
Coaches: Ms.Rasha Odeh and Prof Dr. Zlatan Meskic
The Winning Team
From the left: Abeer Alsaif, Noura Alabduljabbar , , Al Johara Alsaadoun, Coach Ms.Rasha Odeh, Dean of the College of Law Dr. Fahad Almajid, Coach Dr. Zlatan Meskic
Vis moot (Vienna)
2020-2021
21/02/2021
The VIS moot team consisting of Mohammed Aleissa, Dareen Abdulkareem and Sarah Alyahya submitted their Respondent memorandum on 28 January 2021 and thereby finished its written phase of the Vienna competition. The final ral competition in Vienna will take plac from 25 March – 1 April 2021. The team is coached by Prof. Zlatan Meskic as the main-coach, Dr. Abdulmalik Altamimi and Ms. Rasha Odeh as co-coaches.
In preparation for the oral phase, PSU Vis moot team first participated in the Vis moot training organized by University of Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in cooperation with CLDP, from 8-11 February 2021 and then participated in the Zenica pre-moot with over 30 teams from 20 different states. The PSU Vis moot team competed against very strong teams from MGIMO (Moscow), Tübingen (Germany), Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and Arizona (USA), all of these teams have already been in the top 64 in Vienna. The PSU Vis moot team used this opportunity to try out arguments and switch positions to find the most suitable position for each pleader. All three members of the team pleaded at the pre-moot in Zenica. They received very good scores and comments and contributed to the reputation of the PSU team for the competition in Vienna. Prof. Zlatan Meskic was one of the co-organizors of the pre-moot in Zenica and participated in the opening event „Pleading of the coaches“, where for education purposes he pleaed together with the coach of the University of Pittsburgh (Ms. Liz Tyler) and the coaches of the Zenica team (Ms. Nevena Jevremovic and Ms. Amina Hasanovic) in front of renomated arbitrators from Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prof. Zlatan Meskic, Dr. Abdulmalik Altamimi, Mr. Sultan Almutairy and Ms. Nadia Salama served as arbitrators at the pre-moot. This is part of the strategy to build a strong coaching team for the generations to come.
Further, the PSU team participated in the Hannover pre-moot on 19th and 20th February 2021 and had pleadings against Munich (Germany), Carthage (Tunisia), Jagiellonian (Poland) and Chiao Tung (Taiwan). While the team received excellent feedback, it is still waiting for the scores. In Hannover Mohamed Aleissa and Dareen Abdulkareem pleaded in all four pleadings, while Sarah Alyahya stayed as researcher and supported the team. Prof. Zlatan Meskic and Dr. Abdulmalik Altamimi served as arbitrators at the Hannover pre-moot.
On 21 February 2021 the Middle East Pre-moot organized by Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution in cooperation with CLDP has started. This is the first competitive pre-moot where the first 8 out of 30 teams will qualify for the quarterfinals to be held on Friday, 26 February 2021. Ms. Rasha Odeh served as one of the arbitrators in the training phase for the Middle East pre-moot. Prof. Zlatan Meskic and Sultan Almutairy will serve as arbitrators at the Middle-East pre-moot.
