The Arbitration Event Tracker (TAET) Presents Beyond the Moot: Building Effective Advocacy Skills for Arbitration Practice

This roundtable is part of TAET’s professional development series for early-career arbitration practitioners and students transitioning from academia to practice. The session will explore advocacy beyond the moot courtroom, focusing on what it means to advocate effectively in the workplace. Discussion topics will include persuading in professional settings, developing one’s voice as a junior practitioner, and mastering self-advocacy and communication within teams and institutions.

Speakers include:

• Hafsa Ahmad, International Associate at Three Crowns (Washington, D.C., USA)
• María Pilar Perales Viscasillas, Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Moot Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• Rebecca Shorter, Barrister at Crown Office Chambers (London, UK)
• Helena Acker, Associate at FCDG (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Moderator: Clara El-Semman, Graduate student at Columbia Law School, Sciences Po and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne