Mooting

The fourth season of the Mooting Premier League sponsored by Herbert Smith began this month with top law schools notching up early wins this season.

This is the final analysis of how in 2011-12 law students raised the bar for Indian global mooting ambitions, how they fought domestically for the Mooting Premier League crown and what we can expect in MPL 4, now sponsored by Herbert Smith.

NLSIU Bangalore defeated City University of Hong Kong in the finals of the Asia-Pacific rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law moot on Sunday.

Jindal Global Law School finished semifinalists and won other honours in the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law held in France last month, which is the penultimate moot of the third season of the Mooting Premier League (MPL).

Following Legally India’s initial report of Nalsar Hyderabad’s victory at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, the final results have now been announced giving a total of 110 MPL points to participating teams. The Nalsar winners told Legally India the secret to winning and losing in Vienna.

NLU Delhi and NLSIU Bangalore were the only two teams that broke into the top 32 at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot at Washington last month. While NLU Delhi won two honourable mentions and took home 30 points, NLSIU Bangalore won the third best memorandum award and bagged 20 points from this Tier 1 global championship MPL moot.

NLSIU Bangalore bettered Nalsar Hyderabad in the finals of the ISRO funding round to the Manfred Lachs Space Law moot.

American University Washington bested Nalsar Hyderbad in the finals of the NLSIU International Arbitration Moot Court, while Symbiosis, Pune and Jindal Global Law School finished semifinalists in this Tier 4 MPL moot.

Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad earlier today won the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna.

NUJS Kolkata and NLU Jodhpur won honourable mentions at the Willem C Vis (East) Moot Hong Kong, as GNLU Gandhinagar emerged from the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot as the best Asian team, and NLU Jodhpur defeated GNLU in the final rounds of the GH Raisoni Law School Moot Court Competition.

Exclusive [but not true]: The directorate of legal education of the Bar Council of India (BCI) resolved to establish the world’s first ever moot court training academy, dubbed the National Mooting Academy (NMA), by next year, which will become a compulsory part of Indian law schools’ curriculums.

NLU Jodhpur has won the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition in Florida for a massive 30 point bump in the Mooting Premier League rankings.

Nalsar Hyderabad became the first Indian team to win the international rounds of the Oxford Media Law moot by defeating the University of Technology, Sydney in the final rounds.

NLU Delhi finished as semi-finalist in the moot. NLSIU Bangalore won its eighth best memorandum award this season at the Tier 2 World Class MPL moot.

Almost 18 mooting colleges agreed to judge moots on a common scale, make quarter- and octa-finals compulsory for larger moots, team power matching, although law schools could did not agree to make moots majority ruled by judges of at least High Court level.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonipat defeated National Taiwan University in the finals of the ELSA WTO Asian rounds. Symbiosis Law School, Noida beat NLIU Bhopal in the finals of the Pro Bono Enviro Moot at SOEL Chennai. RMLNLU Lucknow overcame Leiden University in the finals of the The Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition.