Associate professor Patricia Shaughnessy has been appointed as the new President of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, the largest and most prestigious student competition on arbitration and commercial law.
The 30th edition of the Vis Arbitration Moot competition took place between 31 March and 6 April 2023 in Vienna. The Willem C Vis Arbitration Moot is the largest international commercial and arbitration law student competition. More than 2500 students representing 378 teams from 89 jurisdictions participated in the competition, along with 1000+ arbitrators. The Stockholm University team successfully competed in the general against the City University of Hong Kong, Charleston School of Law (USA), University of Freiburg (Germany), and Deakin University (Australia). In preparation for the competition, they participated in several in-person pre-moots in Stockholm, Prague and Munich, and several online practice rounds. This annual event provides students a unique opportunity to enrich their education, specialising in the legal aspects of international sales of goods and dispute resolution, written and oral advocacy. It is also a unique opportunity to highlight the strength of our Department’s education and research competence.
During Sweden's current presidency of the Council of the European Union, the upcoming AI-act is one of the issues on the table. And it is a regulation that is highly important, according to several researchers at the Department of Law, Stockholm University.
Filippo Valguarnera, Associate Professor in comparative law at Stockholm University, is one of the editors of the newly published book Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons.
Over 100 students, academics, lawyers, and arbitrators from around the world gathered in Stockholm for another exceptional edition of the Stockholm Pre-moot.
Video-based technology can be of great help in the care of older adults, but at the same time raises several questions of a legal nature. At SU Law, two PhD students are currently studying these issues within the framework of an EU major research program.
In preparation for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2023, the Stockholm University Vis moot team is actively preparing and polishing their oral advocacy skills by participating in pre-moots.
The Swedish Corporate Governance Institute (SCGI) is a new part of The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, since 2022. The institute conducts applied corporate governance research and education from a law and economics perspective.
The PhD Global Tax Symposia (GTS) aims to offer young researchers an interdisciplinary mobile research forum on fundamental issues of international and comparative taxation. The third edition will be organized in 2023 at Stockholm University by Prof. Jérôme Monsenego.
The seabed and the bedrock could play an important role for the green transition; for mining of minerals and storing of carbon dioxide. But the environmental consequences of such activities are not fully understood, showed the presentations at the last Baltic Breakfast.
Ingrida Karina-Berzina is a doctoral candidate in intellectual property at SULaw, researching bad faith in trademark and domain name law for her dissertation. Some 20 years after she last studied at a university, she feels blessed to have the privilege of being back to learn more.
The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ) has made available a collection of seminars, lectures and workshops hosted by the Centre, in the form of videos and podcasts. These are openly published and accessible to anyone with an interest in international law.
