Mooting Premier League 2013-14 moot court competitions
Version 5.01 Draft: This is the first draft of the MPL 5 list of moots, mirroring the MPL 4 rulebook. Changes proposed on the Discussion page.
Total number of Moots – 56 | Tier 1 – 4 Moots | Tier 2 - 6 Moots | Tier 3 - 7 Moots | Tier 4 - 15 Moots | Tier 5 - 24 Moots|
Tier 1 - Global Championships
These include the world finals most prestigious moot court competitions in the world and other world contests involving rigorous competition and wide participation.
Total number of moots in this tier: 4
- Manfred Lachs Space Moot, World Finals
- Philip C. Jessup, Washington
- Willem C. Vis (East), Hong Kong
- Willem C. Vis, Vienna
Tier 2 - World Class
These are the widely recognised international mooting events where a substantial number of Indian teams participate. These moots enjoy worldwide reputation among law students.
Total number of moots in this tier: 6
- DM Harish Moot, GLC
- ICC Trial Moot, The Hague
- Manfred Lachs Space Moot, Asia-Pacific rounds
- Oxford Media Law Moot
- Red Cross Moot
- Stetson World Rounds
- Commonwealth Moot Court Competition
Tier 3 - Elite Class
These mooting events are the best of the elite national contests and some of them are the gateway to the Global Championships/World-class moots in the above tiers.
Total number of moots in this tier: 7
- Bar Council of India Inter-University Moot Court Competition
- Henry Dunant Moot (India qualification rounds to Red Cross Moot)
- Philip C. Jessup North India Rounds
- Philip C. Jessup South India Rounds
- Stetson North India Rounds
- Stetson South India Rounds
- Oxford Media Law Moot (National Qualifiers)
Tier 4 - National Challengers
Most of the contests in this Tier see participation from the top Indian Law Schools. A large number of them have also carved a niche for themselves in the national mooting scene.
Total number of moots in this tier: 15
- Amity Moot Court Competition
- ELSA WTO Moot
- GNLU International Moot
- IICLAM Moot
- ISRO Manfred Lachs funding rounds
- KK Luthra Criminal Law Moot, Delhi
- KLA Moot, Kerala
- Nani Palkhiwala Tax Moot, GLC
- NLIU Juris Corp Moot Court Competition
- NLS International Arbitration
- NUJS Herbert Smith Corporate Moot
- Raj Anand Moot Court Competition
- Surana Corporate Moot
- Surana International Technology Moot
Tier 5 - Best of the Rest
A varied tier that includes good domestic competitions that a range of Indian law schools take part, as well as prestigious international competitions that see only little Indian law school participation.
Total number of moots in this tier: 24
Domestic Moots
Total number of moots: 15
- Fiat Justitia National Moot Court Competition
- GH Raisoni Moot
- Justice Hidayatullah Memorial Moot
- NFCG-Nalsar Moot on Corporate Governance
- Nalsar BR Sawhney Moot
- NLU Antitrust Moot
- NLU Delhi All India Corporate Moot
- Pro Bono Enviro Moot SOEL Chennai
- Rizvi International Moot
- SLCU - LKS - CCI Anti-Trust Moot Court Competition
- SLCU National Moot Court Competition
- Surana & Surana International Minority Rights Moot
- ULC Bangalore Moot
- Commonwealth Moot Court Competition National Rounds
International Moots
These moots are internationally prestigious but only currently see limited participation from Indian teams, and are therefore counted on par with Tier 5 moots. This recognises that winning such a competition is noteworthy but that it would be unfair to disadvantage colleges that could not afford to attend these. Around 3-5 Indian teams participate in these moots.
Total number of moots: 9
- ELSA WTO Asian rounds
- Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition, California
- Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court Competition
- ICC Moot, Paris
- John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, Chicago
- Law Asia International Moot
- Leiden-Sarin Air Law Moot
- Maritime International Arbitration Moot
- Oxford IPR Moot
Note: In future, if any other Moot is found to be satisfying the criteria of a given Tier, the Moot shall be included in that Tier. Also, if any of the Moots in the List warrant a change in the Tier due valid reasons, the changes shall be made.
Scoring criteria
Category/Tiers | Tier 1 - Global Championships | Tier 2 - World Class | Tier 3 - Elite Class | Tier 4 - National Challengers | Tier 5 - Best of the Rest |
Best team | 40 points | 30 points | 20 points | 15 points | 10 points |
Runners-up | 35 points | 25 points | 10 points | 8 points | 5 points |
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher | 30 points each | 20 points each | 10 points each | 8 points each | 5 points each |
Semi finalists | 25 points | 15 points | 5 points | 4 points | 3 points |
Quarter Finalists | 20 points* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Octa Finalists | 15 points* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Honourable Mention/Other equivalent awards | 10 points | 5 points | N/A | N/A | Int'l Moots: 3 points |
Stats | |||||
Number of competitions | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 23 |
Total possible points for winners | 160 | 180 | 120 | 225 | 230 |
Total points for runners-up | 140 | 150 | 60 | 120 | 115 |
- *Points for Quarter Finalists and Octa Finalists shall not apply to the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot- World Finals
- MPL Organiser Points: MPL organiser points are awarded to law schools which host moots and do not participate in them. Such law schools are disadvantaged because that they lose the opportunity to score points in the moots which they host, thereby allowing other law schools to gain MPL points. MPL organiser points are equal to half the points awarded to semi-finalist teams in that moot, with figures rounded down. E.g.: a college organising a tier 5 moot would get 1 point; tier 4 organisers would get 2 points; tier 3 organising colleges would also get 2 and so on.
- Tie-breaker rule: If two or more teams have the same points, their rank shall be decided based on their respective points in different tiers, with the team with the most points in a higher tier winning the tie-break. For instance, if team A and team B have 10 points each (where team A has earned its 10 points from a tier 1 moot and team B has earned its 10 points from a tier 3 moot), team A shall be ranked higher than team B. Furthermore, if the tied teams have earned the same points in the same tiers (in the above example, team A and team B both earned 5 points in tier 1 and 5 points from tier 3), the team which has registered more total wins across all tiers will be ranked higher. The criteria thereafter will be the number of runners-up, followed by number of semi-finalists, best memorandum, best speaker, best researcher and honourable mention (in that order).
Changelog
23 October 2013: Copied from MPL 4