Jindal, Nalsar, NLU-J, NLS will go to Jessup moot in DC: Jindal tops national qualifiers after 9-months of prep

The team from Jindal Global Law School bested Nalsar Hyderabad to win the national rounds of 56^th Philip C Jessup Moot Court Competition held at Christ University Bangalore from 30 January to 1 February 2015.

JGLS was represented by a team comprising of Nisha Raman (4^th year), Samhith Malladi (4^th year), Sanjika Dang (3^th year), and Mohanakrishna C (3^th year).

The team from JGLS bested Nalsar Hyderabad in the finals to win the national rounds

Nisha Raman, who was part of the winning team, commented: “It was Jessup and therefore the competition was really high and amazing. The judges were really good and teams from other law schools were well prepared too. Our 9-month preparation finally paid off.”

She added, “The organisers put the best preparation for organising Jessup and it was the best I have ever seen.”

She said that NLU Jodhpur, whom they beat in the semi-finals, was their toughest competitor.

Varun Baliga of NALSAR was adjudged as the best speaker at the Tier 3 Moot while NLU Jodhpur clinched the award for best memorial.

The other two semi finalists were NLSIU and NLU Jodhpur, which will join NALSAR and JGLS to represent India at the White & Case International Rounds in Washington, DC.

NLU D maintains the lead at MPL 6 while NLU Jodhpur comes second with the same number of points.

NLSIU and Nalsar come in at third and fourth spot respectively, while NLIU Bhopal has slipped down to fifth place.

JGLS has made its MPL 6 debut with the 20 points in this moot, coming in 13th position.

Last year, Nalsar Hyderabad was the best-performing Jessup team, making it into the last 16.

At A Glance: Law School Wise

Law School	Award	Score
JGLS Sonepat	Jessup (Winner) T3	20
NALSAR Hyderabad	Jessup (Runner up + Best Speaker) T3	10+10=20
NLU Jodhpur	Jessup (Semi finalist + Best Memo) T3	5+10=15
NLSIU Bangalore	Jessup (Semi finalist) T3	5

At A Glance: Moot Wise

Moot	Law School
Winners	JGLS Sonepat
Runners Up	NALSAR Hyderabad
Best Speaker	Varun Baliga, NALSAR Hyderabad
Best Memorial	NLU Jodhpur
Semi Finalists	NLU Jodhpur & NLSIU Bangalore

MPL Standing

Rank	Law School	Points	Awards
1	NLU Delhi	84	Manfred Lachs World (Winner + Best Speaker)+ CLEA (Best Memorial) T5 = 40 + 30 + 5 : Price Media (Semi Finalists) T3 = 5; KK Luhtra (Semi Finalist) T4=4
2	NLU Jodhpur	84	Henry Dunant (Best team) = 20; Surana IT (Semi Finalist) T4= 4; Stetson (Semi Finalists + Best Speaker) T3 =10+5 : Price Media(Winner + Best Memorial) T3 =20+10; Jessup (Semi finalist + Best Memo) T3=10+5
3	NLSIU Bangalore	67	Raj Anand (runners up) = 8; BR Sawhney (Runners Up + Best Speaker) T4 + CLEA (Runners Up) T5 = 8 +8 + 5= 21 : Price Media (Best Speaker + Semi Finalists) T3 = 10+ 5: SLCU (Winners) T5=10; KK Luhtra (Best Speaker) T4=8; Jessup (Semi finalist) T3=5
4	NALSAR Hyderabad	65	BR Sawhney (Org)T4 = 2; Amity (Winners) T5= 10; BCI (Runners Up) T3 =10: Stetson (Semi Finalists) T3 = 5 : Price Media (Runners Up) T3 = 10; Rizwi (semi finalists+ best speaker) T5=3+5; Jessup (Runner up + Best Speaker) T3=10+10
5	NLIU Bhopal	62	Raj Anand (Best team + Best memorial + Best speaker) + NLIU Juris Corp (organiser) + Amity (Best Memorial) T5 + CLEA (Winners + Best Speaker) T5 + BCI (Semi Finalists) T3= 15 + 8 + 8 + 2 + 5 +15 + 5; KK Luhtra (Semi Finalist) T4=4
6	RMLNLU Lucknow	44	Henry Dunant (runners up + Best Memorial) + Raj Anand (semi finalist) = 10 + 10 + 4 = 24; Surana IT (Semi Finalist + Best Speaker) T4= 4+8; Rizwi (semi finalists+ best researcher) T5=3+5
7	NLUO Cuttack	44	Henry Dunant (Best researcher + semi finalist) = 10 + 5 = 15; Amity (Runners Up) T5= 5; Surana IT (Runners Up+ Best Memorial) T4 = 8+ 8; KK Luhtra (Best Memorial) T4= 8
8	NUJS Kolkata	43	CLEA (Semi finalists) T5; BCI (Semi Finalists) T3; Stetson (Winner) T3 = 3 + 5 + 20; KK Luthra (Winners) T4=15
9	ILNU Ahmedabad	34	BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T4 = 4 ; BCI (Winner + Best Speaker) T3 =20+10= 30
10	ILS Pune	27	NLIU Juris Corp (Best team + Best speaker) = 15 + 8 = 23; BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T4 = 4
11	HNLU Raipur	23	NLIU Juris Corp (Runners up) = 8; BR Sawhney (Winners) T4 = 15
12	NUSRL Ranchi	21	NLIU Juris Corp (Best memorial) = 8 SLCU (Semi Finalist + Best Memorial + Best Speaker) T5=3+5+5
13	JGLS	20	Jessup (Winner) T3
14	RGNUL Patiala	18	BR Sawhney (Best Memorial) T4; Stetson (Runners Up) T3 = 8 + 10
15	NUALS Kochi	18	Amity (Semi Finalist + Best Speaker) T5 = 3+5 = 8; Rizwi (winners) T5=10
16	KLA	15	Henry Dunant (Best speaker + semi finalist) = 10 + 5 = 15
17	School of Law, Sashtra University	15	Surana IT (Winners) T4 = 15
18	Symbiosis Pune	14	Raj Anand (semi finalist) + Juris Corp (Best researcher) = 4 + 8 = 12; Surana IT (Organizer) T4= 2
19	GNLU Gandhinagar	10	Stetson (Best Memorial) T3
20	CLC Delhi Univ	8	KK Luthra (Runners up)
21	CNLU Patna	6	Amity (Best Researcher) T5 + CLEA (Organizer) = 5+1
22	CMR Law School	5	SLCU (Runners Up) T5=5
23	School of Law, Galgotia University	5	Rizwi (runners Up) T5
24	GLC Mumbai	3	Amity (Semi Finalist) T5 = 3
25	BILS Bangalore	3	CLEA (Semi finalists) T5
26	AIL Mohali	3	SLCU (Semi Finalist) T5=3
27	Lloyd Law College	2	BCI (Organizer) T3 = 2
28	Amity Noida	1	Amity (Org) T5 = 1
29	Christ Univ, Bangalore	1	SLCU (Organizer) T5
30	Rizwi Law College	1	Rizwi (Org) T5

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Guest 9 years ago

Not taking away credit but remember that Jindal has very good faculty to tutor them.

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Observer 9 years ago interesting top rated

I think its high time, the people gave credit where it is due. Unless students are smart enough to know how to use the 'good faculty', there is no point having any.

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Guest 9 years ago

Considering that it is jessup, I think every good University does be it an NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, NLU D or NLU J. Additionally, isnt the point of going to a good University that you get assistance from good faculty.

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John Mclane 9 years ago

Are you trying to say that other teams don't receive tutoring from their faculties? And other colleges like NLS, NLUD don't have faculties like JGLS?

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Realist 9 years ago

YES!

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John Mclane 9 years ago

Perhaps you should check again.

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NUJS Down in Dumps 9 years ago interesting top rated

Hello hello, can't find NUJS' name here? What happened to the great mooting society of NUJS? No. 8 on the MPL.

All a handiwork of some great self acclaimed people who are excellent at playing dirty politics at the expense of NUJS' performance in mooting circle.

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John Mclane 9 years ago

How comes the dirty politics affected the mooting performance? At max it can affect is the internal administration part but onus of delivering results will be upon the teams only which are being selected by a mechanism in function since quite some time.

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Comme 9 years ago

commas!!

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Yerwan 9 years ago

How was the level of judging at the competition?

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bandu 9 years ago interesting

KIAN why is nluj second dude? Y you hate nluj so much :(

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Mr.Ruler 9 years ago

NLU-D have more points in Tier-1. Simple!!

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JMD 9 years ago

NLUD KI BADMAASHI STILL #1

Also, well done JGLS

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Kanji 9 years ago

NLUD what? And what happened to them, they had a formidable team this year.

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Apples and Oranges 9 years ago interesting

Formidable? No one believed me when I said ICC/Dunant is not equal to Jessup. Statute based moots are a joke, the arguments are right in front of you and you just have to rant off the case law. Jessup is real argumentation. You spend 90% of the time figuring out what the problem maker intended for you to argue and then have to find law on an area where there is no law. A stupid irrelevant fact ends up being the most significant evidence. No two memos are ever similar at the Jessup and the scope for innovation is huge. There is only one team from India which has ever nailed the bench memo as it is and got the highest memorial rank... Ah, the irony.

PS- I know Indian National's judges suck, but that doesn't take away from what I said.

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Apple 9 years ago

Lol. You must be from NLU Delhi. Which indian team are you talking about?

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X 9 years ago

An Indian team has never received 'the highest' memo marks at Jessup; though the one you point towards (from the land of AnO) did get the second highest.

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The Land of Dwarka 9 years ago

The ILSA website begs to differ: www.ilsa.org/jessup/archives/2013.php [Best Respondent Memorial]

They also got the 3rd Highest Combined. AnO land? 2nd? when?

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X 9 years ago

1. The Baxter only applies to teams which reach the world rounds, while Dillard is a competition between not just those who make it to the international finals but also the domestic memo winners - i.e. a larger pool.

2. The Baxter is split into app/res; while Dillard takes into account a sum of the teams performance spanning both sides.

AnO land was second at Dillard here while others have also done well in the same competition (including you guys) [http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup08/dillard.php ; www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup10/dillard.php ; www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup12/2012DillardResults.pdf

However, if someone aced the memo - that would be the land of AnO.

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Waiting darn too long! 9 years ago

Kian! Pro bono, Rizvi and HNMCC results Please!!!

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kianganz 9 years ago

Thanks - probono still not responding to our queries - can someone on here share?

HNMCC we've completely missed it seems, we're on it.

Rizvi we already did:
www.legallyindia.com/201501165498/Mooting/nuals-won-galgotia-law-school-in-last-year-s-rizvi-moot-nalsar-now-in-mpl-top-5

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K 9 years ago

Probobo: Winners: school of law, sastra univ.; runners: m.s. ramaiah; best speaker: symbi pune; i'm not sure abt the other awards.....

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kianganz 9 years ago

Many thanks, we're following up!

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Guest 9 years ago

Also Semis NLIU Bhopal

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Marx 9 years ago

I am proud of NLU Delhi and the discourse taking in that hallowed institution. The bourgeois moots when we work at the roots. The results are evident.

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Dravidian 9 years ago

NLU Delhi moots like no other institution. So I would say they moot AND work at the roots. So let's allocate credit where it's due, including to those you refer to as 'bourgeois'.

Then again, haters will be haters.

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Marx 9 years ago

mooted*

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Rohit 9 years ago

Why is Amity Law School,IP University not in the list??

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Kyu Bhai? 9 years ago

Have they done something to be in there?

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NUJS? 9 years ago

NUJS didn't even qualify? Sack these incompetent politicians and get in the serious mooters!

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X 9 years ago

Format was such that each team got to moot 4 times in the prelims; twice as each side. Thereafter, the competition moved straight into the semi-finals (from 28 --> 4).

In light of this it is easy to see why NUJS didn't make it. They had NALSAR in the prelim rounds and when teams were slashed down to four, some very good teams were bound to miss out.

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NUJS- Give No Excuses 9 years ago

So, even in this format, predictably all the top teams- JGLS, NLUJ, NALSAR, NLS-made it to the semis.

NUJS missed it. Can NUJS please stop blaming the format and start focussing on the moots, rather than indulging in politics. Does the Great NUJS Moot Court Society get it? Will we stop being bad losers? Blaming format is so lame, guys! Improve your game. Change the team.

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Y 9 years ago

NUJS won that round against NALSAR.

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Lawyer Delhi 9 years ago

Congrats Jindal team! Even if you prepared for 9 months, your success in Indian rounds is big enough to reward your hard work! Wish the four law schools do India proud in world rounds!

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rocketman 9 years ago

''the competition was really high''

Good stuff!

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The Recluse 9 years ago

NLIU JurisCorp is a Tier-4 moot and NLU Delhi being the semifinalist there should get 4 points according to the MPL 6 rulebook.

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Recluse ka Dost 9 years ago

Bhai downvote kyu kar rahe ho? Rulebook khol ke dekh lo.

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