Closing Team Registration & Claimant's Memorandum Submission Deadline
January 31
2025
Respondent's Memorandum Submission Deadline
March 21
2025
Pre-moot Conference
March 22
2025
Oral Hearings & Reception Party
Details and Team Registration
The 18th Vis Japan will be held as follows. The Rules for the 32nd Vis Moot apply mutatis mutandis. The Vis Japan has both English and Japanese sections. For teams from universities IN JAPAN, please refer to this page.
Date & Time:
March 22 (Sat), 2025 8:30-20:00 JST The Pre-moot Conference is scheduled to be held on the afternoon of March 21 (Fri), 2025.
Venue:
Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus, Neiseikan Building and Ryoshinkan Building (Nos. 21 and 23 on Campus Map) Address & Map / / Campus Map
University and graduate students (No student who has been licensed to practice law is eligible to participate.) Teams are to be organized by university.
Registration fee:
Free *A fee is required to attend the reception party. The award ceremony will be held at the reception party.
Registration:
Teams wishing to participate have to check the [Notes on Participation] below and apply using Google Form by December 20 (Fri), 2024.
*Please check the entered information carefully before submitting your application. Afterwards, teams have to save a copy of your application sent by the Google Form.
[Notes on Participation]
Online participation is NOT ALLOWED.
The number of sessions given to one team is two sessions if participating only in the English section or four sessions if participating in both the English and Japanese sections. Thus, the number of oralists per team is two to four (if participating only in the English section) or two to eight (if participating in both the English and Japanese sections). Students other than oralists are welcome to come to obeserve the sessions and support the oralists of the team. ONLY for administrative purpose, we will ask to submit a list of all team members (including members other than oralists).
Teams have to submit the memorandum for Claimant by December 20 (Fri), 2024 and the memorandum for Respondent by January 31 (Fri), 2025. The memorandum for Respondent should be prepared without exchanging the memoranda for Claimant with the opposing team. For teams participating in both English and Japanese sections, it is sufficient to submit the memoranda in English instead of submitting both the memoranda in English and in Japanese.
Submitted memoranda will be distributed to the arbitrators for oral hearings (the timing will be after the deadline for submission of the respondent's memorandum to the Vis Moot) and will be exchanged with the opposing teams approximately one week before the day of the sessions.
Please carefully check the latest information on the websites of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Japanese consulates in your country to find out whether you need to obtain a visa before entering Japan and how to apply for a visa. If you require any supporting documents in applying for visa, please contact the Vis Japan Pre-moot Committee by email by December 10 (Tue), 2024. Please ensure your registered coach send emails with his/her email address issued by the university of the team.
In principle, teams participating in the 18th Vis Japan may have practice of oral hearings with other participating teams. However, after the schedule of the 18th Vis Japan is announced (approximately one week before the Vis Japan), teams are encouraged to not practice with the competing teams nor observe practices or other pre-moot sessions in which the competing teams participate.