About IICLAM


Infrastructure holds the key to the sustainable development and growth of a nation. The infrastructure in a country is often viewed as an indicator to its level of development and a state of the art infrastructure significantly accelerates its overall growth.

South Asian region has witnessed tremendous growth in the infrastructure sector in the past few decades. An inevitable consequence of this phenomenal growth is the increase in the number of disputes associated with such infrastructure projects.

Having a dispute resolution mechanism which ensures expeditious resolution of disputes, arising out of any such project, is vital, not only for the particular project, but also for the sustained growth of infrastructural projects in the region.

Arbitration, as a method of dispute resolution, is preferred over litigation for a host of advantages that the former offers to the parties at dispute. Conventional litigation, as opposed to Arbitration, is a time-consuming, expensive and complicated mechanism for dispute resolution. These factors make Arbitration a more commercially viable and preferred option, since even minor delays in resolving disputes associated with such commercial projects often result in the parties suffering huge monetary losses.

International Infrastructure and Construction Law Arbitration Moot (IICLAM) is an international level arbitration moot competition attempting to familiarize budding lawyers from around the world with Arbitration as a system of resolution of commercial disputes arising out of the various infrastructure and construction projects around the world. It is with this vision that the three organizers, Kaden Boriss Partners, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) came together to begin an initiative called 'International Infrastructure and Construction Law Arbitration Moot' (IICLAM).

Pursuant to the successful achievement of IICLAM in 2007 and 2008, the third competition in this series (3rd IICLAM, 2009) is being organized from the 13th to 15th November 2009 in New Delhi, India