This comes at a time when the student led Moot Court Society is dissolved and the admin has taken it upon themselves to organise the University Rounds. Furthermore, these University Rounds are scheduled for a time when students have their course-specific in-class assignments, research papers and moots. If the MCS was still in place it would have taken all the student concerns into account but this is not being done. This is just a follow-up to the general trend of no student consultation in forming committees, reducing common spaces, putting cameras across campus (read PDA spots), restricting student life and activities on campus and killing the already non-existent social life on campus. All is not good at the Harvard of the East.
P.S: They plagiarised it from SS Maniyar Law College, Jalgaon.
NLSIU decided to take the mandate of organizing the intra-university moot from the Mooting Court Society aiming to effectively conduct the rounds in a "fair and transparent" manner. Faculty advisors were assigned to oversee the same.
Apart from the problem being delayed a day late by the University, it turns out that they had plagiarized the problem from Dr. Annasaheb G.D.Bendale Memorial 16th National Moot Court Competition 2023 organized by S. S. Maniyar Law College, Jalgaon. A Turnitin plagiarism report shared by a student on University mailing list indicated "Similarity Index" of 86%.
For more details, reach out to your connections in NLSIU :)
NLSIU did not actually plagiarize the problem. Yes, the problem is out there but it has been drafted by a faculty member of the university and used without authorization by Maniyar Law College.
You're saying that the faculty has drafted the problem, left it out in the public domain for long and then NLSIU chose to use it long after it was used by another university? That's not only difficult to believe, but also paints NLSIU in a bad light for a really shoddy job.
The faculty concerned is a highly respected one. I don't think that he will associate himself with a lie. What I do think is that he had made that moot problem in 2019 for some other competition then some college in Maharashtra used it without authorisation and then NLS tried to reuse it. Reusing a moot problem is anyway a bad policy, especially when the memos for this specific moot problem are out on the internet and anyone can paraphrase and get away.
In any case, the moot problem is very plain and simple and the only people who are supporting this problem are people from the 2nd Year 3-Year LLB batch who are crying because only one person out of a batch of 52 people could participate in the Univ rounds because of the toughness of the moot problem last year.
This is exactly why people from BALLB don't consider them as true lawschoolites. Folks from BALLB will never support dilution of academic rigor or quality of moot problems.
Admin is the one supporting such dilution, since they were in charge of conducting it. Are you saying that you don't consider your VC and faculty who are mostly alum as "true lawschoolites" either?
Are you seriously trying to justify this debacle? If the faculty/admin can't bother to draft a new problem for a moot, then they shouldn't organise it. Plain and simple.
Not plagiarised but it seeems that there were disagreements within the faculty too. Basically the students convened a general body meeting which dissolved all committees. So there is no functioning Moot Court Society. So admin got a chance to take over, to “encourage more participation”. One of the faculty advisors argued that encouraging participation is fine but the univ rounds also should have a clear standard in terms of depth; participation can be encouraged through novice moots, making moots as part of continuing evaluations etc also. That faculty advisor also had a detailed problem ready but that was not accepted by the admin. So now it is a question of whether a single-issue problem with at least basic materials easily accessible (including some not-great memorials) can have sufficient depth. And whether the admin should be running this at all instead of the student body.
This comes at a time when the student led Moot Court Society is dissolved and the admin has taken it upon themselves to organise the University Rounds. Furthermore, these University Rounds are scheduled for a time when students have their course-specific in-class assignments, research papers and moots. If the MCS was still in place it would have taken all the student concerns into account but this is not being done. This is just a follow-up to the general trend of no student consultation in forming committees, reducing common spaces, putting cameras across campus (read PDA spots), restricting student life and activities on campus and killing the already non-existent social life on campus. All is not good at the Harvard of the East.
P.S: They plagiarised it from SS Maniyar Law College, Jalgaon.
Apart from the problem being delayed a day late by the University, it turns out that they had plagiarized the problem from Dr. Annasaheb G.D.Bendale Memorial 16th National Moot Court Competition 2023 organized by S. S. Maniyar Law College, Jalgaon. A Turnitin plagiarism report shared by a student on University mailing list indicated "Similarity Index" of 86%.
For more details, reach out to your connections in NLSIU :)
In any case, the moot problem is very plain and simple and the only people who are supporting this problem are people from the 2nd Year 3-Year LLB batch who are crying because only one person out of a batch of 52 people could participate in the Univ rounds because of the toughness of the moot problem last year.