Cross Examination Moot
The Moot is a competition for university teams with an exclusive focus on cross-examination techniques in international arbitration. Students will attend various rounds of hearings during which they will cross-examine each other’s witnesses and experts.
Every year, thousands of students participate in the various existing arbitration moots around the world. These competitions have successfully trained generations of young lawyers on the basics of advocacy. This Moot goes one step further. Considering the importance of cross-examination for the arbitration profession and the fact that young lawyers are not exposed to its technics until very late in their careers, the Moot has the purpose of educating the next generation of arbitration practitioners on the most challenging and exciting aspect of advocacy.
The Moot is hosted by Sciences Po, a higher education institution located in Paris, France.

Come here… tell me: don’t you consider it of great importance that the youth be as good as possible?
After its first edition, the arbitration community has voted the Cross-Examination Moot as the Best Development of 2021.
institutional
Directors

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
Sciences Po

Franco Ferrari
New York University

Sophie Nappert
3VB Barristers

Alexis Mourre
Mourre Gutierrez Chessa

Samaa Haridi
Hogan Lovells

Eleonora Coelho
CAM-CCBC

Yas Banifatemi
Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya

Gary Bell
National University of Singapore

Loukas Mistelis
Queen Mary University of London

Jean Kalicki
Arbitration Chambers
Directors

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
Sciences Po

Franco Ferrari
New York University

Sophie Nappert
3VB Barristers

Alexis Mourre
ICC International Court of Arbitration

Samaa Haridi
Hogan Lovells

Eleonora Coelho
CAM-CCBC

Yas Banifatemi
Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya

Gary Bell
National University of Singapore

Loukas Mistelis
Queen Mary University of London

Jean Kalicki
Arbitration Chambers
Executive Directors
Executive Directors

Francisco A. Amallo
MHR | Martínez de Hoz & Rueda

Ezequiel H. Vetulli
Independent Practitioner
Coordinators
COORDINATORS

Mihaela Apostol

Rosario Galardi
Team
Team

Gabriel Fusea

Satine Berton

Laura Zinnerman

Miranda Shaw

Yasaschandra Devarakonda
Ambassador
Ambassador

Hasit B. Seth
HLaw Chambers