NUJS Kolkata qualified for the ELSA WTO Geneva Moot 2014 after winning its Asia Pacific Rounds at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, against Hong Kong university, on 3 March.
RMLNLU Lucknow will join NUJS in Geneva, having made it to the semi finals of the Asia Pacific Rounds, where it lost to NUJS.
JGLS Sonepat, which made it to the quarter final rounds, was the only other Indian team to have broken at any round at the moot. Out of 27 participating teams, eight were Indian law schools: NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad, GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU Raipur, Christ University Bangalore, JGLS, RML and NUJS.
The win has helped Kolkata, which bagged fourth place at last year’s ELSA WTO world rounds, climb up to eighth place in the Herbert Smith Freehills-sponsored Mooting Premier League (MPL) season 5 table. RMLNLU has also jumped up three ranks to 12th place.
The Geneva rounds are currently scheduled for 13 to 18 May 2014.
Mooting and emulating
NUJS speakers Akshaya Venkatraman and Surabhi Dhar and researchers Prashant Srinivasan and Varun Ramdas led the law school to victory. Dhar and Venkataraman also, respectively, won citations for Best Speaker at semi finals and the final rounds. The NUJS team was not reachable for comment at the time of going to press as they had not yet returned to India.
The RMLNLU team was comprised of Aayush Jain, Garima Prakash and Dviya Chaudhary. Chaudhary was adjudged the best speaker at the Quarter finals.
Jain said that the Indian teams participating at the Asia Pacific Rounds would benefit from an “Indian pre-round”, which should be considered from next year onward.“I was very impressed with the organisation of the moot, we can learn from them on how to organise our moots. I was impressed by the quality of judges.
“In India alumni and inexperienced people judge prelims and the arguments go on deaf years, whereas at Kuala Lumpur, from the outset there were authorities on panel, and this reduced the possibility of an incorrect decision. There were around 10 -15 judges for the competition and they kept revolving till the finals.” he added.
Chaudhary said the judges included the DG of the WTO, Melbourne University professor Andrew D Mitchell and others whom the team “read about during preparations” and “cited in their memorial”.
Update with comment from NUJS: “Since we’re all mooting for the first time, we were quite unsure of what to expect. However, the more experienced mooters in college and our WTL professor D Sandeepa Bhat helped us with the preparation we needed for the oral rounds. The moot itself was a great experience most importantly because of the kind of panelists we argued in front of. Their expertise in world trade law was both intimidating and enriching which helped us grow through the competition. We were thrilled to qualify for the world rounds but winning and bagging the best speaker awards for both the final rounds and the semi-final rounds was just the icing on the cake.
“While we ourselves are just learning and getting the hang of it all, some advice we did get from panelists was to deal with arguments in a manner that would be tenable in real dispute resolution as opposed to relying too heavily on extreme, innovative arguments. There’s an awful lot more work to be done! We’re primarily looking at practicing more and plugging all the loopholes we discovered during the regional rounds.”
Upcoming Moots: 5th NLUJ Anti Trust Moot, 2014: 7 – 9 March. Catch it blow by blow here.
At a glace: Moot wise
Moot | Law School |
Winners | NUJS Kolkata |
Semi-Finalists | RMLNLU Lucknow |
At a glance: law school wise
Law school | Award | Score |
NUJS Kolkata | ELSA Asia-Pacific (Best Team) T5 | 10 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | ELSA Asia-Pacific (Semi-Finalist) T5 | 3 |
MPL 5 season standings
Law school | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | Org | W | R/u | S/F | B S | B M/R | HM | Pts | Details | |
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1 | NLSIU Bangalore | 75 | 80 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 173 | Henry Dunant (Best advocate, semi finalist) + BCI moot (semi finalist) + HNLU Moot (Winners) + NLIU Juris Corp (Semi Finals) + Stetson South (runner's up) + Oxford Price Media Moot, South Asia (Semi- Finalist + Best Memorials)+ KK Luthra (Best team) + Jessup South Qualifying (Best team + Best speaker) + GIMC (Best team) + KLA (Best team) + ULC (Best Researcher + Semi - Finalist) + Amity Delhi (Best team + Best memorial + Best speaker) | ||||
2 | NLIU Bhopal | 15 | 40 | 59 | 26 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 140 | Raj Anand (Best team) + BCI moot (Runners up, Best mooter – female) + Rizvi Moot (Winners) + NLIU Juris Corp (Organisers) + SOEL Pro bono Moot (Runner’s up, Best Memorial) + Stetson South ( Best team) + KK Luthra (Semi finalist) + DM Harish (Semi finalist) + Surana Corp (Best team + Best memorial) + KLA (Best memorial) + ULC (Best memorial) | |||
3 | NLU Jodhpur | 50 | 40 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 119 | Henry Dunant (Best team) + Raj Anand (Runners up) + BR Sawhney (Best memorial) + John Marshall Moot (Best Team – Ambassador Rounds) + Stetson North (Best Team) + DM Harish (Best team + Best memorial) + ULC (Best team) + Amity Delhi (Best researcher) | ||||
4 | NLU Orissa | 35 | 20 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 102 | Surana IT (Best team, Best memorial) + Nani Palkhivala (Best speaker) + Amity Moot (Best – Memorial) + Stetson North (Semi finalist) + Jessup South (Best memorial + Semi finalist) + DM Harish (Best speaker + Semi finalist) + KLA (Best speaker) + ULC (Semi finalist) | ||||
5 | NLU Delhi | 25 | 52 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 90 | Henry Dunant (Best memorial, Semi finalist) + Manfred Lachs World (Semi finalist) + BCI moot (semi finalist) + FDI International moot (Best Memorial - Claimants) + Stetson North (Runners up) + KK Luthra (Runners Up) + Jessup North (Best team) | |||
6 | ILS Pune | 45 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 77 | Raj Anand (Semi finalist, Best speaker, Best memorial) + Stetson South (Semi finalist) + Jessup South (Semi finalist) + DM Harish (Runners up + Best researcher) + GIMC (Best memorial) | |||||
7 | Nalsar Hyderabad | 25 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 65 | Nani Palkhivala (Semi – Finalist) + BR Sawhney (Organisers) + HNLU Moot (Runner’s up + Best Speaker + Best Researcher + Best Memorial ) + Stetson South (Semi finalist + Best speaker) + Jessup South (Runners up) + GIMC (Semi finalist) + KLA (Semi finalist) + Surana Corp (Best speaker) | ||||
8 | NUJS Kolkata | 25 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 57 | Surana IT (Semi finalist) + SLCU National moot (Best speaker, Best memorial, Semi finalists) + BR Sawhney (Runners up) + NLIU Juris Corp (Semi Finals) + Oxford Price Media Moot, South Asia Rounds (Runners up) + Stetson North (Semi- Finalist) + Jessup North (Runners up) + ELSA Asia-Pacific (Best Team) | ||||
9 | JGLS Sonepat | 30 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 56 | Henry Dunant (Runners up) + Nani Palkhivala (Best Team) + BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) + NLIU Juris Corp (Runners up) + Oxford Price Media: South Asia (Best Team) | ||||||
10 | HNLU Raipur | 44 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 51 | SLCU National moot (Semi finalists) + Amity Moot (Runner’s up + Best Speaker) + NLIU Juris Corp (Best Speaker + Best Researcher + Best Memorial) + HNLU Moot (Organisers) + SOEL Pro bono Moot (Semi Finalist) + GIMC (Semi finalist) | |||||
11 | Amity Delhi | 30 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 50 | Rizvi Moot (Best Researcher) + SOEL Pro bono Moot (Best Researcher) + Oxford Price Media Moot, South Asia (Semi- Finalist) + Stetson North (Best Memorials) + KK Luthra (Best speaker) + Jessup North (Best speaker + Semi finalist) + Amity Delhi (organiser) | |||||
12 | RMLNLU Lucknow | 15 | 8 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 44 | BR Sawhney (Best team) + HNLU Moot (Semi Finals) + Stetson South (Best memorial) + Jessup North (Semi finalist) + Surana Corp (Runners up) + ULC (Best speaker) + ELSA Asia-Pacific (Semi-Finalist) | ||||
13 | Symbiosis Pune | 20 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 41 | Nani Palkhivala (Runners up) + Rizvi Moot (Semi Finals, best speaker) + SOEL Pro bono Moot (Best Team) + KLA (Runners up) + Amity Delhi (semi finalist) | ||||||
14 | KIIT Bhubaneshwar | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 40 | BCI moot (Best team, Best mooter – male, Best memorial) | ||||||||
15 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 29 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 39 | Surana IT (Best advocate) + SLCU National moot (Best team) + NLIU Juris Corp (Winners) + GIMC (organiser) + Surana Corp (Semi final) | ||||||
16 | GLC Mumbai | 10 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 30 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) + BR Sawhney (Best oralist, semi finalist) + Nani Palkhivala (organiser) + Amity Moot (Semi Finals + Best Researcher) + Amity Delhi (Semi finalist) | |||||
17 | RGNUL Patiala | 10 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 29 | Surana IT (Runners up) + Amity Moot (Semi Finals) + HNLU Moot (Semi Finals) + Rizvi Moot (Runners up) + Jessup North (Best memorial) | ||||||
18 | Nuals Kochi | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 23 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) + Raj Anand (Semi finalist) + Surana IT (Semi finalist) + ULC (Runners up) | ||||||
19 | Christ University | 8 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | SLCU National moot (Organiser) + Amity Moot (Winners) + GIMC (Best speaker) | |||||||
20 | Sastra school of Law Thanjavur | 12 | 1 | 1 | 12 | Nani Palkhivala (Semi Finalist, best researcher) | |||||||||
21 | Pravin Gandhi Law College Pune | 12 | 1 | 1 | 12 | KK Luthra (Best memorial) + KLA (Semi finalist) | |||||||||
22 | UILS Chandigarh; Abha Sharma | 10 | 1 | 10 | Stetson North (Best speaker) | ||||||||||
23 | Seedling School of Law & Governance | 10 | 1 | 10 | BCI moot (Best memorial | ||||||||||
24 | Delhi University LC I | 8 | 1 | 8 | Nani Palkhivala (Best memorial) | ||||||||||
25 | GLC Chennai | 8 | 1 | 8 | Amity Delhi (Runners up) | ||||||||||
26 | SOEL Chennai | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | SLCU National moot (Runners up), Pro bono enviro (Org) | |||||||||
27 | CUSAT Cochin | 5 | 1 | 5 | SOEL Pro bono Moot (Best Speaker) | ||||||||||
28 | UPES Dehradun | 4 | 1 | 4 | Surana Corp (Semi finalist) | ||||||||||
29 | Amity Noida | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Amity Moot (Organisers) + SOEL Pro bono Moot (Semi Finalist) | |||||||||
30 | Dept of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh | 3 | 1 | 3 | Jessup North (Organiser) | ||||||||||
31 | CLC Delhi University | 2 | 1 | 2 | KK Luthra (Organiser) | ||||||||||
32 | JSS Law College Mysore | 2 | 1 | 2 | Surana Corp (Organisers) | ||||||||||
33 | Kerala Law Academy | 2 | 1 | 2 | KLA (Organiser) | ||||||||||
34 | Rizvi College Mumbai | 1 | 1 | 1 | Rizvi Moot (Organiser) | ||||||||||
35 | ULC Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 1 | ULC Bangalore (Organiser) |
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Does anyone know who Tania Woon is, by the way? Haven't been able to find references online...
He is a prof at Melbourne University!
Couldnt agree more with you bro! This is what separates Law school, NALSAR and NUJS from the rest. NLS, NUJS and NALSAR perform not only at the national level but at the international level as well. However, you have mooters from colleges like NLU-J who only participate at the national level moots for which no good college sends even a half decent team. I cant even remember when NLU-J did well internationally.
And this year we qualified for Red Cross Hong Kong.
That includes beating all the teams that you mentioned in the national rounds.
Your arrogance is clear from the fact that you think no half decent teams are sent to national moots, because NLS, NUJS and NALSAR do come to these moots. So please get off your high horse.
Red Cross Hong Kong?? Whats that? I would be truly grateful if you could share with the me the names of the Indian colleges which had participated in this prestigious unheard of moot. As to your claims of nailing Stetson, the other three (NALSAR, NLS and NUJS) had won it long time back. People in these colleges do not even consider it as a tier 1 international moot. Also, NLSIU sent its team D for Stetson 2011-2012.
Why is its name missing.
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