Clifford Chance

A Team from the EFB and a Team from Versailles Win the Sixth Paris Arbitration Competition

The final stage of the Paris Arbitration Competition was held on 31st May 2011.

The Competition was organized for the Sixth Consecutive Year by Sciences Po Law School and the law firm Clifford Chance in partnership with Editions Lamy, Total and the International Chamber of Commerce.

It is open to students preparing for a Master's degree-level qualification or a qualification crowning higher law studies and to pupils from bar training schools or lawyers' professional training centres.

The four teams remaining at the final stage pleaded their cases before a simulated arbitration court made up of:

• Guy Canivet, a member of the Constitutional Council, former First President of the Supreme Civil Court and President of the simulated Arbitration Court;
• Joelle Simon, Director of Legal Affairs at the French Companies' Movement (MEDEF);
• Peter Herbel, Director of Group Legal Affairs, Total;
• Christophe Jamin, Professeur des Universités at Sciences Po, Director of the Law School; and
• Jean-Pierre Grandjean, Lawyer, Partner, of Clifford Chance.

After deliberation, the simulated arbitration court awarded the first prize to the team composed of two students from the EFB: Anne-Victoire Laurent Bellue and Ugo Gilbert. The team won a purse of 9,000 euros from Clifford Chance and both members can have a six-month paid in-service training course in the firm.

The simulated arbitration court awarded second prize to the team comprising three students on the Master's degree in Arbitration and International Commerce at the Versailles Faculty of Law: Lucille Kante, Jean-Christophe Gasnier and Jessica Madesclair. This team, the runner-up was given a purse of 4,000 euros by the law firm Clifford Chance.