Instititutional Repository of the University of PittsburghPitt Law’s Center for International Legal Education (CILE) and its engagement with the United Arab Emirates University is featured as a “success story” at the website of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program.
As the site notes, CILE “prepared faculty advisors and selected students to participate in the Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition set to be held in Vienna, Austria in March 2010. The Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot team, which will likely become a permanent part of the curriculum of UAE University, is the third such team on the Arabian Peninsula to begin participating in the moot, following the University of Bahrain and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. In February 2010, all three Gulf region teams will meet at UAE University – Al Ain for pre-moot practice arguments with the assistance of University of Pittsburgh Professor Ronald Brand and three student coaches, Kerry Ann Stare, Rick Grubb, and Marc Coda.”
