For the eleventh time in a row, the BWB was allowed to invite Moot Court on May 16, 2025. The legal competition organized together with Elsa Austria (European Law Students’ Association) and the law firm Dorda Rechtsanwälte GmbH is pleased about the continued great interest!
This year, the students also demonstrated their rhetorical skills and technical legal knowledge before a fictitious antitrust court and this time not only had to show their knowledge of antitrust law, but also their understanding of cryptocurrency networks.
This challenge faced ten teams who looked after by renowned law firms as usual and were supported by them in the creation of the briefs and preparation for the hearing:
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Team 1, supervised by Schima Mayer Starlinger Rechtsanwälte
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Team 2, supervised by Ey Law – Pelzmann Gall great lawyers
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Team 3, supervised by Cerha Hempel
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Team 4, supervised by Taylor Wessing
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Team 5, supervised by Schönherr
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Team 6, supervised by Wolf Theiss
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Team 7, supervised by Haslinger Nagele
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Team 8, supervised by Burgstaller & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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Team 9, supervised by Binder Gröswang
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Team 10, supervised by Reidlinger Schatzmann Jergitsch Rechtsanwälte
The jury of antitrust law Moot Court 2025 was top -class:
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Mag. Sonja Köller-Thier (President of the Senate of the OLG Vienna)
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Mag. Heinz-Ludwig Majer, MBA (Bundeskartellanwalter)
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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl, LL.M. (University of Vienna)
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Dr. Heinrich Kühnert, M.Jur (RA and partner at Dorda)
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Mag. Corinna Potocnik-Manzouri (BWB)
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Dr. Lukas Cavada (BWB)
Like the years before, the best team and the “Best Speaker” were chosen. This year, too, the students not only convinced with well -founded antitrust law, but also with rhetorical and argumentative skill and the natural handling of complex facts. During the assessment, the factual and legal analysis in the briefs, as well as the arguments, teamwork, spontaneity and time management during the hearing were taken into account.
Ultimately, that could be in the preliminary rounds Team 3 (Julian Brand, Paul Grausam, Shayam Shams) Und Team 2 (Gabriel Ölsinger, Katharina Schöggl, Vinzenz Antensteiner) as well as the speakers Ronja Endfellner (Team 8), Oleksii Bilous (Team 4), Leandros Ginter (Team 6) and Jakob Hönigl (Team 4) enforce and demonstrate their skills again in the final before the fully occupied jury.
The BWB congratulates the Best speakerine ronja endfellner (Team 8, supervised by Burgstaller & Partner Rechtsanwälte) and the Besten Team, Team 3supervised by Cerha Hempel (Julian Brand, Paul Grausam and Shayan Shams) to the outstanding performance.
„Antitrust law is no longer an orchid subject, but in practice and at universities arrived in teaching! The Moot Court also made an important contribution in its more than tenth anniversary, more than 250 students went through it and took antitrust law into their professional career! “, Said the general director of the BWB, Natalie Harsdorf.
In addition, BWB thanks Dr. Christian Filwieser, MSC (LSE), President of the Federal Administrative Court, for the exciting keynote.
President of the Federal Administrative Court, Dr. Christian Filwieser, MSC, emphasized the admirable courage and the commitment of the participants of the Moot Court in his keynote. He emphasized that the file of soft skills such as rhetorical skills in the further professional career will be positive. He closed his keynote with a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg: „Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles and don’t burn your bridges. Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want and then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humour.“