ULC Bangalore has won India’s first ever International Judgment Deliberation Competition at GLC Mumbai, beating Symbiosis Pune, NLSIU Bangalore and NLU Jodhpur in the finals yesterday.
A total of 14 law schools participated and brought fielding one student each in the role of judge and one as assisting judicial clerk.
Each rounds and the finals consisted of five or four student judges who would give their judgment deliberations on the case problem, being assisted by their judicial clerks and judged by a panel.
The case file was about a cyber attack by independent state Aragorn against independent state Hobbit – modelled on the 2007 attacks by Russian hackers on Estonian virtual infrastructure. The judging was conducted under the procedures of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), although the real-life Estonian attack counter part never made it that far, so the students in the problem also had to establish jurisdiction.
In the finals the student judges were judged by University of Madras professor A David Ambrose, additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran and Supreme Court judge S Radakrishnan, NLU Jodhpur and NLSIU Bangalore’s judges came third and fourth, with Symbiosis and ULC Bangalore bagging second and first place respectively.
ULC Bangalore fourth-year students Gangesh Varma and Shruti Prabhakar teamed up as judge and judicial clerk, having also participated in several moots in the past.
Prabhakar said: “We wanted to do something different, something other than a moot court.”
Varma agreed and joked: “You get bored of moot courts - this time you can be a judge.”
They said that one difficulty of ICJ judgments was that there was no concept of precedent.
Prabhakar said that in their judgments they were trying to give a judgment that was in favour of Hobbit, although it was easier under existing law to say that Aragorn was not responsible for the attack under international law.
Varma added: “We wanted to bring an accountability – the moment you start denying things to a victim, if there is no accountability, chaos will continue to prevail and no justice will be done.”
Prabhakar and Varma told Legally India that they wanted to pursue careers in international law.
CNLU Patna’s team won the best-written judgment in the competition, which was held as part of the Government Law College International Law Summit over the weekend (5 and 6 February).
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In any event, that isn't the point. The point is that NLSIU has won one competition in this GLC IL Tournament, or whatever absurd name its called. Hence, your objection fails. End of.
GLC organized a brilliant summit, which got a lot of people interested in IL, and generated some good discussions. And that's it. Trivializing everything into winning and losing, and whether GLC was better or NLS was or anyone else was, is great disservice. I urge you to attend some of these conferences/functions, instead of sitting at home and happily commenting away about who's better than who. The point is not to reduce everything into such nonsencial discussion, but appreciate what comes out of the these conferences (which, contrary to your beliefs, is more than the answer to the question 'who beat who').
Also, if anyone is to reply to this, I request you to use your name, and not be anonymous.
Oh. My. God. Alright, let me explain this very simply.
When my good friend Raag Yadava goes to the GLC IL competition, he goes not as Raag Yadava, representative of humanity-at-large, but as Raag Yadava, NLS Student. Correspondingly, when my good friend Raag Yadava wins that competition, he wins it not as Raag Yadava, World Citizen, but as Raag Yadava, NLS Student - just as Mr. Prabhakar wins the judging competition as a ULC student.
Really, Jessup Nationals Judges are smarter than this - and that's saying something. If this is the best you guys can come up with, I'm quite relieved to note, as an "N-School" student, that we don't need to worry about competition from you any time soon.
Jeez! Talk about war of words in "Your" competitions!
As for you coming out on this page and making comments like, "I know how this competition is suppose to run because I am the copyright owner for them. I created them and I would want ULC to win it over others because NLS and NLU-J were mooting more than delivering a Judgement" just shows your [...]. Your ridiculously non-persuasive opinion, however authoritative it might be, (considering you're the "copyright owner") really means nothing to us. So please stop talking [...] before rambling on about how your word is the Bible for the IJD.
A judge like Ambrose is a legend, people! I really don't think we should doubt his competency or impartiality. [...]
Congrats to Raag and the ULC Team. You both were fantastic!
Props for the unique initiative too.
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