NLU Delhi has won the Price Media Law Moot at Oxford University, which is rated as a Tier 2 World Class moot in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.
Together with two honourable mention citations there and three at Jessup, NLU Delhi is now just over 50 points within reach of the almost continuous MPL leader NLSIU Bangalore, which bulked up its already huge Tier 1 tally to 170 points after winning the Philip C Jessup moot in Washsington last weekend.
NLU Delhi’s team comprising of speakers Medha Vikram and Harshad Pathak and researcher Divya Srinivasan defeated the USA’s Regent University in the finals late yesterday for 30 MPL points.
The NLU Delhi winning team had dedicated the entire year to preparing for the Price Moot. “We were actually waiting for the problem to be released. As soon as the problem was out we were on it,” recounted Medha Vikram, having won the South Asia rounds of the moot against NSLIU Bangalore, which also traveled to Oxford. “Now that we have spotted our weak points we could work more on that area to launch the best of our performance at the International rounds.”
The NLUD winning team was elated at cracking the finals of the Price Media Law Moot. “We are overjoyed right now. It feels really good to come to a place as prestigious as Oxford and win!” said Vikram.
Last year Nalsar had won the moot in Oxford.
Further Indian results, if any, are awaited. More pictures available on the moot’s Facebook page.
NLS dominates but not invincible
NLSIU Bangalore still looks set to win this season of the MPL after bagging a total of 60 points for its victory at Jessup (40 points for the win and two honourable mentions for 10 points each). It now has a massive 302 points in the MPL.
NLU Delhi, however, after its Oxford win remains in contention for the top spot with 249 points – before its 40 points at Oxford it was at 219 points with 30 points for honourable mentions at Jessup (19th best team, 21st best speaker and third best memo).
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Though some big scoring moots are still coming up, NLU Delhi will continue having its work cut out if it wants to stand a chance at displacing NLS’ 53-point lead.
The ICC Trial Moot, a Tier 2 will be the most important competition coming up as teams stand a chance to win more than 70 points if they do a clean sweep. Similarly, the Commonwealth moot is ranked in Tier 2 and could bring in a similar haul.
Overall there are at least 115 points still up for grabs if a school won every upcom
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The fight for second and third place has cooled down with NLU Delhi’s performance in Oxford, now enjoying a comfortable 100+ point margin over NUJS Kolkata in third place.
Everything is still open between NUJS and NLU Jodhpur for third place, though – the teams have been see-sawing back and forth all season and the gap is now only 20 points.
Also please note that the ISRO Manfred Lachs Funding Rounds have been postponed to May and the NLS International Arbitration Moot is happening from 11th to 14th April 2013.
- 11 to 14 April: NLS International Arbitration Moot (Tier 4)
- 14 to 18 April: Commonwealth Moot Court Competition (Tier 2)
- 21 to 26 April: ICC Trial Moot, The Hague (Tier 2)
- 30 April to 5 May: ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition (Tier 4)
- 3 to 5 May: ISRO Manfred Lachs Funding Rounds (Tier 2)
- 1 to 2 June: Lachs Asia-Pacific Rounds (Tier 4)
- 8 to 12 July: Maritime International Arbitration Moot (Tier 5)
GNLU quartered for India at FIAM
A four member team from GNLU Gandhinagar made it to the semi-finals of the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Competition, held between 18 and 22 March 2013.
A team consisting of Shubham Kaushal, Spoorthy MS, Arima Jain and Utkarsh Divyankar bagged 3 MPL points for this Tier 5 international moot.
International law firm Herbert Smith is sponsoring the Mooting Premier League (MPL) and will contribute a prize pool of Rs 60,000 for the top three winning colleges.
Mooting Premier League 4 season standings
| Pos | Law school | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | Org | W | R/u | S/F | B S | B M/R | HM | Pts | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NLSIU Bangalore | 170 | 80 | 24 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 302 | Rizvi Moot (Semis); Surana Trial - South (Gold); Manfred Lachs Space Moot World Rounds (Gold, memo, speaker); Stetson South India (Gold); Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers (Silver, speaker); KK Luthra Criminal (semis); Jessup South Rounds (Gold, memo, speaker); GIMC (silver); Kerala Law Academy (semis) NUJS Herbert Smith (Best Memo) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Runners Up) (Best Researcher) (Best Memo); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Speaker) Jessup World Rounds (Winners) (Honorable Mentions- 2nd Best Oralist, Best Speaker in Finals) | ||
| 2 | NLU Delhi | 30 | 90 | 90 | 16 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 249 | HMMCC (Semis); Henry Dunant (gold); NLU Delhi Corp Moot (organiser); NLIU Juris Corp (Semis); Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers (Gold, memo); Commonwealth Moot Nat'l (semis); Stetson North Rounds (silver, speaker), Jessup North (Gold); Kerala Law Academy (silver) NUJS Herbert Smith (Semis) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Semifinalist); Red Cross Moot (Winners)(Best Speaker) ; Oxford IPR Moot (Runners Up); Leiden Sarin Air Law Moot (Best Speaker)(Honourable Mention for Best Applicant Team) Jessup World Rounds (Honorable Mentions - 19th Best Team, 21st Best Speaker, 3rd best Memo); Oxford Media Moot (Win, 2nd & 3rd oralist for HM) |
| 3 | NUJS Kolkata | 25 | 45 | 16 | 48 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 136 | HMMCC (Best team)(speaker) (Nani Palkhivala (silver); (BR Sawhney (speaker);(SLCU Moot (Gold, speaker); Surana Trial North East: (silver); (KK Luthra) (speaker); DM Harish (semis & speaker); NUJS Herbert Smith (org); ELSA WTO Asian Rounds (Best Speaker) (Semis); Vis (East), Hong Kong, (Honorable Mention- Best Pan-Asian Team); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Respondent Memo and Octa Finalists) | ||
| 4 | NLU Jodhpur | 20 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 116 | (Henry Dunant) (silver); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (semis); (B.R Sawhney Moot) (semis) ; (NLIU Juris Corp) (Semis); (Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers) (Semis);(Commonwealth Moot National Rounds) (Gold) (speaker), Jessup North (semis, speaker);(KK Luthra) (Gold); ULC Bangalore (silver); NUJS Herbert Smith (Runners Up) (Best Speaker) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Organizers); Vis East, Hong Kong (Honorable Mention - Respondent Memorandum, Honourable Mention, 2nd Best Oralist) | ||
| 5 | Symbiosis, Pune | 40 | 35 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 90 | (NLIU Juris Corp) Best Researcher; Kerala Law Academy (gold); Surana Corporate Moot (Semis) Amity Moot (Runners Up); GH Raisoni Moot (Winners) (Best Researcher); Vis (East) Hong Kong (Quarter Finalists) ( 2 Honorable Mentions for Speakers) | ||||
| 6 | ILS Pune | 10 | 15 | 5 | 27 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 90 | (HMMCC) (Best researcher); (SLCU Moot) (silver); (NLIU Juris Corp) (gold); (Stetson South India)(Semis); DM Harish (semis) Surana Corporate Moot (Best Oralist) (Semis); ULC Bangalore (orator); GH Raisoni (Semis) ; NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Winners); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Respndent Memorandum) | |
| 7 | RMLNLU Lucknow | 30 | 30 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 84 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (gold, best researcher); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (memo);(Stetson North Rounds) (Gold), Jessup North (silver);GNLU International Moot (semifinalists); Stetson World Rounds (Semi Finalists) ( Honourable Mention - 2nd Best Memorial, 5th Best Speaker, 6th Best Speaker) | |||
| 8 | HNLU Raipur | 10 | 32 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 84 | Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher); (Pro Bono) (Runner's Up, speaker, Best researcher, memo) (Rizvi Moot) (silver) (Justice Hidayatullah Moot) (organizer) (Stetson North Rounds) (memo); Surana Trial North East (winner, speaker) (KK Luthra) (memo); Kerala Law Academy (semis) Amity Moot (Best Memo) NUJS Herbert Smith (Semis) | |||
| 9 | Nalsar Hyderabad | 30 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 69 | (HMMCC (silver); (Rizvi Moot) (Best team); (B.R Sawhney Moot) (organisers); (NLIU Juris Corp) (speaker);(FDI Moot (memo);(Commonwealth Moot National Rounds) (memo); Jessup South (Semifinalists); Vis (East), Hong Kong (Honorable Mention- Claimant Memo); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mentions- Speaker, Claimant Memorandum) | |||
| 10 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 5 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 58 | (Nani Palkhivala) (best team); (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (Best team);(FDI Moot) (Honourable Mention);Jessup North (semis); GNLU International Moot (organizers) Surana Corporate Moot (Gold); GH Raisoni Moot (Runners Up)(Best Mooter) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Semifinalist); Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot (Semifinalists) | ||||
| 11 | RGNUL Patiala | 20 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 57 | (HMMCC (silver); (Rizvi Moot) (Best team); (B.R Sawhney Moot) (organisers); (NLIU Juris Corp) (speaker);(FDI Moot (memo);(Commonwealth Moot National Rounds) (memo); Jessup South (Semifinalists); Vis (East), Hong Kong (Honorable Mention- Claimant Memo); Vis,Vienna (Honorable Mentions- Speaker. | ||||||
| 12 | Jindal Global Law School | 20 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 43 | (Nani Palkhivala) (memo)(Henry Dunant) (best researcher, semis); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (gold); (Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers)(Semis); NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Best Speaker) | |||||
| 13 | NUALS Kochi | 10 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 38 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (silver); (Stetson South) (memo); Kerala Law Academy (memo) Amity Moot (Winners) | ||||||
| 14 | Faculty of Law, Jamia Milia Islamia University | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | Nani Palkhivala (speaker); Henry Dunant (memo); Surana Trial adv-North (Silver, speaker) | ||||||
| 15 | GLC Mumbai | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 26 | (Surana Trial Advocacy South) (silver) (NLU Delhi Corp Law Moot) (Semifinalist); Jessup South Rounds (silver); GNLU International Moot (memo) | |||||||
| 16 | NLUO Cuttack | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 25 | B.R Sawhney Moot (memo); NLIU Juris Corp (memo); GH Raisoni Moot (Best Memo) (Semis);Amity Moot (Semifinalists) ; | ||||||||
| 17 | Amity Law School,Delhi (IP University) | 5 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24 | Commonwealth Moot (semis); Stetson North Rounds (semis); GIMC (semis) Amity Moot (Organizers) ; ELSA WTO Asian Rounds (winners) | ||||||
| 18 | SVKM's Pravin Gandhi College of Law | 5 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | SLCU Moot (memo, semis); Jessup South (semis); ULC Bangalore (semis, memo) | |||||||
| 19 | Nirma University | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21 | Henry Dunant (semis); (Pro Bono) Semis; Stetson North Rounds (semis) | ||||||||
| 20 | CNLU Patna | 20 | 1 | 1 | 20 | (Stetson South) (Silver); Jessup North (memo) | |||||||||
| 21 | Campus Law Centre, New Delhi | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | KK Luthra (Semifinalists); NUJS Herbert Smith Moot (Winners) | ||||||||
| 22 | ULC Bangalore | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (memo);(Pro-bono Enviro Moot (Gold); ULC moot (org) | ||||||||
| 23 | NLIU Bhopal | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | HMMCC (Semis, memo); Nani Palkhivala (semis); NLIU JurisCorp (org); | |||||||
| 24 | Amity Law School Noida | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | Rizvi Moot (semis, speaker, memo); | ||||||||
| 25 | KLA, Trivandrum | 10 | 1 | 10 | Stetson South (speaker) | ||||||||||
| 26 | Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (speaker); | ||||||||||
| 27 | KIIT School of Law | 10 | 1 | 10 | B.R Sawhney Moot (Gold) ; | ||||||||||
| 28 | Faculty of Law, Allahbad University | 10 | 1 | 10 | ULC Bangalore (Gold) | ||||||||||
| 29 | Faculty of Law, Benaras Hindu University | 8 | 8 | Surana Corporate Moot (memo) | |||||||||||
| 30 | School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Surana Trial South (memo, semis); | |||||||||
| 31 | UILS Punjab | 8 | 1 | 8 | Kerala Law Academy (speaker) | ||||||||||
| 32 | School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | Surana Trial - South (semis); Pro Bono (Semis) | |||||||||
| 33 | V.M. Salgaoncar, Goa | 5 | 1 | 5 | Stetson South (Semis) | ||||||||||
| 34 | A K K New Law Academy, Pune | 5 | 1 | 5 | Commonwealth Moot National Rounds (Runners Up) | ||||||||||
| 35 | New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune | 5 | 1 | 5 | Surana Trial Adv - South (speaker); | ||||||||||
| 36 | Lucknow University Faculty of Law | 5 | 1 | 5 | Surana Trial Adv - North East (memo) | ||||||||||
| 36 | GLC Ernakulam | 5 | 1 | 5 | ULC Bangalore (memo) | ||||||||||
| 37 | Symbiosis, Noida | 4 | 1 | 4 | Amity Moot (Semifinalists) | ||||||||||
| 38 | Law Centre-I, Delhi University | 3 | 1 | 3 | ULC Bangalore (Semifinalists) | ||||||||||
| 39 | JSS Law College, Mysore | 2 | 2 | Surana Corporate Moot (Organizer) |
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That's just ridiculous. Why should everything point to a job? What have "jobs" ever done for legal learning? And who stays in their first AMSS/ Luthra/ BigLaw "job" for more than the first two years anyway.
Surely, these kids competing for prizes based on showing an (admittedly idealized) legal skillset of research, drafting and arguing, is its own reward and beneficial generally, and therefore worth promoting. Maybe some of them will decide not to get a "job" and go train under a litigating lawyer and become arguing counsel! Maybe they'll become academics! Maybe they'll get a "job" and lie back dreaming of that day at Oxford...
Please do the needful. Thank you!
Also, I don't see how one can give the same number of points to the 2nd best speaker and the 19th best speaker overall. Its a massive difference, although I wholeheartedly appreciate the achievements of NLU Delhi. After all, for a 5 year law school to perform so well at Jessup is not a joke.
I am also sorry for deviating from the topic. Congrats to NLU Delhi. Your mooting credentials deserve a round of applause. :-)
But I sincerely hope that LI will look into NLS' Jessup performance and revise the points awarded.
However, do note it is quite hard to come up with a scoring system that anticipates all possible outcomes, and performances as strong as they were this year.
Generally, best speaker points only go for the overall best speaker in the competition award, or the widest best speaker category possible. Finals speaker citations are obviously an achievement too, but the college is getting at least finalist points for that already.
Also, the odds of 2 Indian teams both performing so well in something as big as Jessup are fairly small, statistically, so this year is an extraordinary set of circumstances.
So, short of overpowering the Jessup massively to make performing there basically an automatic MPL win, year by year this scoring system aims to reward good as well as outstanding performances at international moots. Plus, remember that all teams already got points from the national qualification rounds too.
Do let us know your thoughts if there's a way of improving this without over complicating too much.
Best regards
Kian
I agree with your general ideas that a) best speaker should be for the widest possible category, and b) best speaker in the finals should be just an hon men, not equivalent to best speaker.
However, I don't think that addresses the concern that, for the tier one moots, you've effectively equated second best speaker with 50th best speaker (probably more at vienna) or some such thing. I also don't think it is remotely fair for you to hide behind "but this is a rare occurrence". So what!. First, it isn't so rare for there to be massive differences in speaker rankings between two awarded Indian speakers at Jessup or VIenna (i believe that this is the third time this issue has arisen in 4 MPL seasons). And second, a points system is supposed to take care of that.
At the very least, you could have a category between best and hon men (for 20 points), for ranks 2 to 10. If you were willing to "complicate" things slightly more, you could create a sliding scale (30 for best speaker, 25 for ranks 2-10, 20 for ranks 11-20, 15 for ranks 21-30, and 10 for the rest). Shorten the bands (5 instead of 10) if you think that this also overpowers the tier one moots too much. But this is a problem with the scoring system that needs to be addressed for next year.
Another change you should consider is giving quarter finals points for tier two moots. Given the quality of moots in that tier, its almost certainly warranted.
Also, your list above has Manfred Lachs Asia Pacific listed as tier 4, when its actually tier two.
Cheers
And I reiterate - I am really disappointed by the way you all keep promoting NLU D. I know A LOT of people there, and they are good but not great! There's a reason they don't get jobs! And winning moots ain't difficult - NLU D has coaches for this stuff, which other law colleges don't!
And well we dont need promotion. Because only with five batches we are already kicking ass of other established colleges.
Needless to say respect for NLS, but we are no less.
1. Speaker citations- Rank 25-57 (57 is beleive is the no. of ranks which are given MPL points.
2. Dillard Award- Top 5
4. Baxter (Applicant)- Top 5
5. Baxter( Respondent)- Top 5
Kindly confirm that these 40 points at Jessup are still up for grabs,
NLS did really well at the Media Law moot as well, though.
They made the quarter finals and also received a citation for 7th best speaker.
But the rules are also there for a reason so that we can follow them year-by-year rather than being accused of bias for changing them last minute.
For previous years our Jessup and Tier 1 rules have worked quite well because it was so rare for Indian teams to make it into the top, so differentiating between 3rd best speaker and 32nd wasn't really something very high on our agenda.
I guess it could be argued making the top eight orators of memorials roughly equivalent to octa- or quarter-final points (15 and 20 respectively) at Tier 1 moots?
But should we do so retroactively or introduce this only in next seasons?
If Dillard and Baxter come through, those will most likely be honourable mentions I'd expect. We'll have to calculate the cut-offs there and check in detail what we did next year - any suggestions?
Do remember, however, that MPL does aim to give weighting to the international as well as domestic. If all you need to do to win MPL is for a team from your college to 'merely' win Jessup, that wouldn't fairly reflect overall mooting of the college either. Fact that NLS is top sort of vindicates the system - if NLS had not performed domestically it would not be first, though Jessup and Man Lachs achievements would always stand separate as highlight and achievements in their own right?
Detailed proposals for improvement always welcomed.
Thanks
Kian
However, agreeing with the above the wins should be given more points and the points for memo and orators should graded based on ranks.
But do you think we should retroactively award NLS more points for winning Jessup and the honourable mention for highly ranked speaker?
somebody else has suggested potential math regarding hon mens in a reply to one of your earlier comments
We've decided to put it to a popular vote:
www.facebook.com/questions/511720718864645/
We'll strongly take on board the result and most likely adopt it unless we hear convincing arguments against going with majority wisdom... :)
Readers who are quick to criticize should realize that LI is run by a handful (perhaps less than half dozen) people who continue doing a commendable job day after day, knowing that no matter what they do, it's impossible to please everyone all the time. In many ways, LI is a trendsetter in the Indian legal reporting scene.
Kudos to Kian and team. Keep up the good work!
Will also put this point to the vote, but I think it's very hard to disagree with your argument on the basis of fairness.
And if NLU D is entitled to extra points for the memo, as it arguably should have, then really why bother changing things retrospectively this season if it would affect both teams more or less equally?
www.facebook.com/questions/511854415517942/
I looked through the results of the first poll as well, in which around 60 people voted for 25 points for NLS' 2nd best speaker.
www.facebook.com/questions/511720718864645/
However, looking through the voters it seems very roughly that 80% or so are from NLS. Not sure it would be fair hiking points on that basis alone, particularly since those publicly voting against NLS extra points could unfairly be accused of being petty in the circumstances.
Around 16 voted against a retrospective change but to amend it in future seasons in what looks like a bit more of a mix of different law schools (full disclosure, I voted for that one too).
Let's see how the NLU Delhi poll turns out and then decide?
Best wishes,
Kian
Ps: Many thanks Legal Dodo for your kind words!
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