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Written by Vinay Mishra Monday, 01 February 2010 17:40
The latest, updated Legally India Mooting Premier League (MPL) scoring criteria and moot competition rankings: we have removed five competitions, added one and demoted and promoted one respectively.After 14 of the 35 moots included in the MPL there is a tough fight for the top spot between NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad going on.
Since the start of the MPL we have received various comments and suggestions to amend the rankings and include further moots. Based on these, we have updated the list as explained below.
TIER 1
Points:
Best Team: 20 points
Runners Up: 15 points
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher: 12 points each
Honourable Mention: 10 points
Semi Finalist: 10 points
Competitions:
Philip C. Jessups, Washington
William C. Vis, Vienna
Manfred Lachs, world finals
TIER 2
Points:
Best Team: 15 points
Runners Up: 10 points
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher: 10 points each
Semi finalist: 7 points
Honourable Mention: 7 points
Competitions:
Stetson World Rounds
William C. Vis (east), Hong Kong
Manfred Lachs, Sydney
Red Cross Moot, Henry Dunant Asia Pacific
WTO World rounds
TIER 3
Points:
Best Team: 10 points
Runners Up: 7 points
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher: 7 points each
Competitions
North India Round of Philip C. Jessup
South India Round of Philip C. Jessup
North India Round of Stetson
South India Round of Stetson
National Rounds of Henry Dunant
Bar council of India Trust
ISRO funding round of Manfred lachs, NLS Bangalore (NEW)
WTO Asian rounds, Taiwan (MOVED FROM TIER 2)
DM Harish, GLC
ICC Mediation, Paris
TIER 4
Points:
Best Team: 6 points
Runners Up: 3 points
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher: 5 points each
Competitions:
NLS International Arbitration
GNLU International Moot Court Competition
MM Singhvi Moot court competition, NLU Jodhpur
Nani Palkhiwala Tax Moot Court, GLC Mumbai
NUJS Herbert Smith Moot court competition
IICLAM, NLU Delhi
Justice Tankha Memorial Moot court competition, NLIU Bhopal,
Amity law school moot court competition
Surana Corporate
Surana International Tech, Pune
KLA Moot Court Competition, Kerala
Nalsar B.R. Sawney
K.K. Luthra Criminal Law Moot Court Competition, New Delhi,
S.P. Sathe Moot court ILS, Pune
All India Corporate Law Moot Court Competition, NLU Delhi
Surana Trial Advocacy, North India round (concluded)
Surana Trial Advocacy, South India round
ULC Bangalore moot
EXPLANATION OF CHANGES
Tier 2:
WTO Asian rounds, Taiwan has been shifted to Tier 3 from Tier 2. It is because the participation is not very high for the Asian rounds and not all of the major teams take part. But considering the reputation of the moot and its associates, we have decided to keep the world finals in Tier 2.
Tier 3:
We had omitted to include the ISRO Funding rounds of the Manfred Lachs Moot. We have rectified the same and included it as a Tier 3 competition.
Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition University of Oxford and International Maritime Arbitration, Perth have not been included in the list because Indian participation is very low in these competitions and not all major law schoolstake part. It would be unfair to grant points for the same. Also the reputation of these competitions is not that high as of any other Tier 3 competition.
Finally the NLSIU Arbitration moot has been moved to Tier 4 from Tier 3 by popular consensus. We have received various comments requesting the change as foreign participation is not very high or at the same level as that of DM Harish.
Tier 4:
CIAC Arbitration, RMNLU Lucknow, Anand & Anand IPR, New Delhi and Surana Minority have been cancelled this year and have been removed from the list. We also removed the moot court competition organised by ULC, Bangalore from the list after consultation. [Note 8 February 2010: We have included ULC Bangalore again after hearing detailed submissions from the ULC Moot Court Committee. It was a tight borderline case for inclusion in Tier 4 and we gave it the benefit of reinstatement seeing as it was on the original list.]
We had received a number of messages for inclusion of various other moots. However, this season we had to restrict ourselves to 35 moots and it has been very carefully decided after extensive research and consultation. Also the comments received from the readers have been given due weightage.
Update 16 February: We are also introducing a tie-breaker in the event of a tie for the top spots at the end of the competition. If the total points of teams are the same, we will take into account the total points scored by team wins only (excluding points such as runners-up, best speakers, memorials or researcher). In the event of a further tie, the next criteria will be runner-up points. Hopefully that should break any tie. If not, we will tally up the total number of wins, irrespective of each category and tier. Please let us know if you have any objections to this method.
Click here for the first version of the scoring criteria.
Get this cut-out-and-keep MPL season calendar as a handy guide of all competitions that are still coming up in the MPL.
Please leave your comments below on the changes or on future tables.
Comments (10)
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written by Anonymous, 04 February 2010 03:25
Hi,
I am From ULC, MCC
why u guys removed ULC moot...............the moot is in 14th year....and all major law school including NLS, Nalsara will be participating this year....
On the other hand u included S.P. Sathe where hardly any law school turns Up...........
include ULC Moot ..............as this moot is the only Environmental Law - Constitutional Law moot in the country From Past 14 years
I am From ULC, MCC
why u guys removed ULC moot...............the moot is in 14th year....and all major law school including NLS, Nalsara will be participating this year....
On the other hand u included S.P. Sathe where hardly any law school turns Up...........
include ULC Moot ..............as this moot is the only Environmental Law - Constitutional Law moot in the country From Past 14 years
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written by Anonymous, 04 February 2010 04:00
There needs to be a wider difference between the points. How can you really equate two tier two wins to a Tier I win which is really HUGE! [I mean, if a team wins South India Jessup rounds and the Man Lachs Isro rounds then it stands tied with a team that wins Jessup World Finals which is clearly much much bigger than the above two wins] The latter deserves far more no. of points!
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written by Anonymous, 07 February 2010 02:11
NLU Jodhpur will be conducting the anti trust moot court competition in association with the Competition Commission of India and the law firm Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan. As far as i know,this is only the moot on competition law which is the latest important piece of legislation so it needs to be mentioned for sure.
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written by Anonymous, 18 February 2010 00:38
LAWASIA Moot Court Competition ??????????
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written by Anonymous, 23 February 2010 00:04
you can still make changes in the scoring system and can include justa causa moot court competition organised by nagpur univ too.....
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written by Anonymous guest, 03 March 2010 02:37
As the ICC Mediation Paris forms a part of your list, i request you to look into the inclusion of "ICC Trial Competition, The Hague" available at "http://www.icc-trialcompetition.org/cms/" to be included in the list, as has already been suggested by someone in an earlier post. It is one of the prestigious moots, which serves as a final round to the PACE qualifiers from the US.
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written by Anonymous guest, 08 March 2010 12:32
I suggest just an expansion of the point system within the existing moots. For example, for Tier 1 Moots, points are only given up to semi-finals.
Since the lowest points given there are 10, i suggest 8 points for quarter finals and 7 or 6 for octafinals, and a few points for any other advanced round if that competition has any.
Since Tier 4 moots give 6 points to the winning team, and the competition is much larger in Tier 1 moots, I believe it is only fair that points are given, however less, for reaching any advanced rounds of these international moots.
I suggest the same for Tier 2 moots, if the number of participants are larger than any standard national moot.
My second suggestion is giving points to semi-finalists even in Tier 3 and 4 moots, since in most national moots, sides are selected by draw of lots, and a good team may lose to the eventual winner in the semi-finals. Therefore, just by draw of lots, a good team may lose out on the finals. Therefore, I suggest 6 or 5 points to the semi-finalist in Tier 3 moots and 2 points in Tier 4 moots.
Since the lowest points given there are 10, i suggest 8 points for quarter finals and 7 or 6 for octafinals, and a few points for any other advanced round if that competition has any.
Since Tier 4 moots give 6 points to the winning team, and the competition is much larger in Tier 1 moots, I believe it is only fair that points are given, however less, for reaching any advanced rounds of these international moots.
I suggest the same for Tier 2 moots, if the number of participants are larger than any standard national moot.
My second suggestion is giving points to semi-finalists even in Tier 3 and 4 moots, since in most national moots, sides are selected by draw of lots, and a good team may lose to the eventual winner in the semi-finals. Therefore, just by draw of lots, a good team may lose out on the finals. Therefore, I suggest 6 or 5 points to the semi-finalist in Tier 3 moots and 2 points in Tier 4 moots.
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written by Anonymous guest, 30 March 2010 02:11
australian national university has won the jessup cup this year...nd the law school frm columbia came second! nalsar lost to the winning australian team in the semis!! nalsar topped asia-pacific! no indian or asian team other than nalsar made it to the semis!! woo hoo!! m a nalsarite n m proud abt it!! :)
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written by Anonymous guest, 10 July 2010 17:07
It is found that in the TIER 4 there are all types of optimum Domestic Moot Courts, but the National Level IPR Moot Court held in New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune is missing!
Kindly consider.
Kindly consider.
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Two Law Schools from India are short listed every year to participate in this competition based on a assignment submitted by all Indian Law Schools that wish to participate in the same. However, next year onwards there might be a national round to decide the same. As far as Indian performance in this moot is concerned, NALSAR was a runner-up in the maiden edition of the Competition in 2008. Last year the finals was between Yale Law School and Bond University.
It may be noted that in the USA, the prestigious Pace Criminal Law Moot is considered a qualification round to participate in the ICC Trial Moot at The Hague.
http://www.icc-trialcompetition.org/cms/