NUJS Kolkata also won the best memorandum award to take away twenty points from this crucial moot, moving up to second position with a comfortable lead of fourteen points ahead of NLIU Bhopal. Both teams will represent North India in the White & Case Jessup World Finals to be held in Washington in March.
Akshay B.D. from NLU Delhi won the best speaker award, with the rest of the team of third year students consisting of Shreya Rastogi, Ankit Chauhan and Sarvjeet Singh (pictured). The NUJS team consisted of Deepak Raju, Rukmini Das, Iram Huq and Pankti Vora.
Akshay B.D. told Legally India: “The problem was challenging as it involved largely unexplored areas of contemporary international law. What made it more interesting was that we had to use different perspectives and arguments for both the sides.”
The problem dealt with the legality of drone strikes and international anti corruption law. Nineteen teams worked for around five months to qualify for this popular moot, which is also known as the ‘World Cup of Mooting’.
Mr. Ravichandran from Surana & Surana confirmed the results and said that the judges involved ex-Jessup mooters and professors of international law. Akshay B.D. added that organisation of the moot was excellent. “Two things that stand out in this moot are complete transparency and the passion of the organizers. Both Surana and RMNLU Lucknow were exceptional.”
The South India Rounds are scheduled to be held next weekend at KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar.
Legend: T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 (total points won in each tier); Pos (Position); W (Wins); R/u (Runner-ups); S/F- Semifinalist; B S (Best speaker); B M/R (Best Memorial/Researcher); HM (Honorable Mention & other equivalent awards); Pts (Points) For more information please refer to the MPL 2 rulebook.
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Congratulations to both NLU, Delhi and NUJS. Well done! Its time one of the Indian schools gets the world title again (same goes for Vis, Vienna). Hope its this year!
would have more respect for nlu delhi's win if not for the fact that they have express faculty to 'coach' for mooting. that is ridiculous and completely against the trial/error learning-curve spirit of mooting.
you will probably call me bitter and say i'm afraid of change, but i am of the old guard of mooters and would like nothing more than to be replaced by brilliant young 'uns so that mooting - continues to be a popular, fun activity that my college continues to dominate (:P). not in this way, though.
hey if ur the old guard of mooters..wouldnt u know that if any person does not research the thing he speaks and completely relies on another person to tell him what to do and give substantive help, he would not be able to answer the firing questions judges put across to him? thats the exact reason judges ask questions..it is to test their knowledge which going by what u say is useless...though u are entitled to ur opinion kindly do not make it derogatory.
@#4 Echoing what #5 said, It completely ridiculous for you to beleive that NLU Delhi one because an express faculty coaches them. No amount of so-called expert help can be of any use if you yourself have not slogged to be able to handle judges question. If you are against any type of guidance then i think you do not understand the concept of studying in a university itself. NLU Delhi has had on seniors, they had no one with experience to teach them the tricks of the trade, a visiting coach can make little difference.
Dear self proclaimed guardian of the traditional mooting culture, let me give you some facts..as opposed to having five batches like other law schools, NLUD has got just three batches as of now, so the fact that we have been doing well in moots should be treated with even more respect, but no, you can't appreciate the fact that a new law school is coming up and doing well..unlike you, we don't have any seniors or alumni to help us with moots or give us their experience, hence we have a moot court advisor and its just that one person, and that too he works in a law firm so you can imagine how often he must be coming to see us, he just comes and judges the intras and gives feed back to the participants and other tips which experienced mooters give to the new ones, so I don't understand why our college does not deserve respect when the people pictured above have been working day and night, risking their grades and every god damn thing, so that they can win this moot...people like you never accept that someone can be as good as you if not better...GROW UP...stop demeaning NLUD every time we achieve something...and mooting is a fun activity in our college too, and if your college is dominating the mooting scene, congratulations, we won't take it away from you...every law school has its big moments, let us enjoy ours...I mean seriously, going by your logic, seniors should not advise their juniors at all on mooting...that's ridiculous...and do you really thing having a moot court advisor can turn things around so drastically that we would go on to represent the country in Jessups...if it was so, then Jindal should be the one in our place, they have better faculty than most National Law Schools but the fact remains, it was always the students and it will always be the students who make or break a law school...and your argument that our law school is lesser than yours just because we have a part time moot court advisor looks flawed to me...
Jodhpur is doing a Liverpool in the MPL....while NLUD seems to be buoyed from a fresh crop of talent just like Spurs..let's see whether they can finish in the top four
If I am correct, there will be more than 8 moots of MPL in feb, 2011. It gonna be decider for Barclays standings.. And final frontier will be world rounds of jessup, manfred, stetson, henry, and vis.
# 4, What do you thing, The team won in jessups of NLU Delhi was the team who won DM Harish previous year. And to notice you, there was no moot court advisor at that point of time. And they were in 2nd year at that time. I think you should have Digene or Hajmola..
for gods sake pple just be happy 2 good law schools are representing N india in jessup. and i am happy to see NUJS back on top of the table after quite a while...good going guys
@#4, I am from NUJS. I do not agree with your comment that NLU D won the competition because they have a faculty coach. They have one ex-mooter as coach when we, the older law schools, have a lot of them helping us. Moreover, a law school that is in its third year has limitations that NLU D has so wonderfully been able to counter.
Without taking anything away from NLU D's win (which is commendable for the above mentioned reasons), I think both the teams would have enjoyed the finals more in front of a different panel. None of the panelists judging JESSUP nationals knew what Article 2(4) of the UN Charter was, they ended up asking speakers the questions meant for the other side and had no clue of what was happening. I am not saying that NUJS would have won had the bench been different. But, it would have been a better mooting experience for both the teams and the audience. While High Court judges and partners of law firms are persons of considerable eminence, they are not the best persons to judge a moot on INTERNATIONAL LAW (just like Dame Higgins or Judge Simma would not be a good judge for a national corporate law moot).
Congrats NLU D again and all the best to all four Indian teams for the international round.
4# ‘s comments are quite silly. It is a great achievement that NLUD without a senior batch is going to Jessup.
Being an NUJS student, I can say that NUJS did this in 2002 when only in their second year of existence, a team went to the international Jessup. In 2003, (their 3rd year) they won the Vis in Vienna and I think were runners up at the international Commonwealth moot. In 2004 then won the Vis east. All of these without a single batch having passed out.
I have no doubt that NLUD is going to achieve something similar or perhaps even bigger! Whether they do it without a coach or with, it really doesn’t matter. The performance when a mooter stands before hostile judges is what matter! Also, the “old timers” reason is really quite lame.
You guys have made us really proud, and to see such encouragement from other law schools is a great feeling. I believe the positive competition between Indian Law Schools would help in establishing the brand of Indian Legal Education internationally, and everyone would benefit from it...
National Law Universtiy Delhi has now won the National Rounds of Second Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition held at Punjab University, Chandigarh. NALSAR came second and GNLU third. 4 teams qualify for the International Rounds to be held in Dubai. Last year NLUD had been runners up in the International Rounds of the same moot.
NLU Delhi has won the National Rounds of the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law moot, alongwith the Best Memorial Award. Seven Indian participated in this moot nad the top three teams shall be participating in the internationla rounds of this moot.
Clearly, since this noot is not their in MPL once again NLU Delhi will miss out on due credit it deserves. It happened the last time when LawAsia moot was not included despite 4 Indians teams participating including NLS Bangalore.
I dont want to sound pejorative but its high time a system is evolved to give us due credit. If Leader of the scoring board is so unfairly treated, its going to seriously damage the credibility of the not only the MPL of the entire website.
If you are going tell me its too late to include it, and it unfair to the other teams. Please look back to how NLU Jodhpur was awarded points retroactively for some International MArtime Moot in which on 3 Indian teams partcipated.
Honestly, missing out on points after WINNING TWO INTERNATIONAL MOOTS is the height of discrimination. Its only a matter of time before MPL looses its credibility.
Indeed, the LawAsia Moot was left out at which NLUD won by beating major law schools from Asia. And any international event is no small thing. The list has to be a little more flexible for that matter. Like my friend said in the preceding post, overlooking two international level moots is a big deal. And really it's about time NLUD got due credit. More than just "being a preference due to location".
Instead of showing your embarrassment, you should appreciate the winning who have won the south rounds by their hard work. Jessup is not reserved only for particular teams, it can be won by any team who had done hard work.
An observation.... The SAME NLU Delhi team won DM harish moot last year when a coach was NOT hired.... Im guessin the skeptics will now say that the judging was bad even there etc. anyway its nice to see good faith and support from other law schools supporting young institutions striving to achieve.
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Congratulations to the qualifying teams!
you will probably call me bitter and say i'm afraid of change, but i am of the old guard of mooters and would like nothing more than to be replaced by brilliant young 'uns so that mooting - continues to be a popular, fun activity that my college continues to dominate (:P). not in this way, though.
great job, everyone else.
thats the exact reason judges ask questions..it is to test their knowledge which going by what u say is useless...though u are entitled to ur opinion kindly do not make it derogatory.
regards
# 4, What do you thing, The team won in jessups of NLU Delhi was the team who won DM Harish previous year. And to notice you, there was no moot court advisor at that point of time. And they were in 2nd year at that time. I think you should have Digene or Hajmola..
Without taking anything away from NLU D's win (which is commendable for the above mentioned reasons), I think both the teams would have enjoyed the finals more in front of a different panel. None of the panelists judging JESSUP nationals knew what Article 2(4) of the UN Charter was, they ended up asking speakers the questions meant for the other side and had no clue of what was happening. I am not saying that NUJS would have won had the bench been different. But, it would have been a better mooting experience for both the teams and the audience. While High Court judges and partners of law firms are persons of considerable eminence, they are not the best persons to judge a moot on INTERNATIONAL LAW (just like Dame Higgins or Judge Simma would not be a good judge for a national corporate law moot).
Congrats NLU D again and all the best to all four Indian teams for the international round.
Being an NUJS student, I can say that NUJS did this in 2002 when only in their second year of existence, a team went to the international Jessup. In 2003, (their 3rd year) they won the Vis in Vienna and I think were runners up at the international Commonwealth moot. In 2004 then won the Vis east. All of these without a single batch having passed out.
I have no doubt that NLUD is going to achieve something similar or perhaps even bigger! Whether they do it without a coach or with, it really doesn’t matter. The performance when a mooter stands before hostile judges is what matter! Also, the “old timers” reason is really quite lame.
Last year NLUD had been runners up in the International Rounds of the same moot.
Clearly, since this noot is not their in MPL once again NLU Delhi will miss out on due credit it deserves. It happened the last time when LawAsia moot was not included despite 4 Indians teams participating including NLS Bangalore.
I dont want to sound pejorative but its high time a system is evolved to give us due credit. If Leader of the scoring board is so unfairly treated, its going to seriously damage the credibility of the not only the MPL of the entire website.
If you are going tell me its too late to include it, and it unfair to the other teams. Please look back to how NLU Jodhpur was awarded points retroactively for some International MArtime Moot in which on 3 Indian teams partcipated.
Honestly, missing out on points after WINNING TWO INTERNATIONAL MOOTS is the height of discrimination. Its only a matter of time before MPL looses its credibility.
The list has to be a little more flexible for that matter. Like my friend said in the preceding post, overlooking two international level moots is a big deal.
And really it's about time NLUD got due credit. More than just "being a preference due to location".
and bravo nlu -delhi
Best Team and Best Researcher..clean sweep by ILS!!
Please update the MPL table asap!
Best Memo. You're having a laugh. We'll see just what ILS do at Washington, where the judging is half-decent.
Congrats ILS and NALSAR :-)
anyway its nice to see good faith and support from other law schools supporting young institutions striving to achieve.
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