9 April 19:54: NUJS Kolkata has won the 27th Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which is one of the largest and most prestigious mooting competitions in the world.
This year, it was held entirely virtually (see further below for details).
The video from the final, if you didn’t watch it live, will be uploaded by Vis to YouTube shortly.
Update: The team consisted of speakers Ashika Jain (2023 batch) and Kaira Pinheiro (2023), and researchers Anand Krishnan (2023), Sahaj Mathur (2024), Shivani Choudhary (2023), Mehak Kumar (2023), Rajat Pareek (2023), and Kashish Satra (2024).
The team walso won the Eric E Bergsten Award for best team orals.
9 April, 15:40: NUJS Kolkata is through to the grand finals, where it will face University of Freiburg later today, having bested University of Hamburg in the semi-finals (see below for more on the semis, and timings of the final, which will be broadcast live by Vis).
If you are watching the stream live from around 430pm, please feel free share your thoughts in the comments.
9 April, 13:45: The teams through to the finals will be announced at 1130am Vienna time (3pm India time). The finals will be livestreamed on Facebook from 1pm Vienna time (430pm India).
Winners of the memorandum competition will be announced at 330pm, Vienna time.
Update 9 April 11:47: NUJS Kolkata is through to the semi finals, according to a notification on the Vis website.
The national law school - the only remaining one in the knock-out rounds of the last four teams - will be facing the University of Hamburg.
NUJS Kolkata is through to the last eight in the 27th Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, being held entirely virtually right now.
NUJS will be facing off against the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
NUJS had won against McGill University in the previous round of the last 16 teams, that was held around 530pm today, 8 April, Vienna time.
Those octa-finals had also seen NLSIU Bangalore and NLIU Bhopal, facing MGIMO University and New York University (NYU) respectively.
The Indian qualification pre-moot - one of had happened from 29 February to 1 March 2020 organised by OP Jindal Global University, India.
Virtual Vis
On 7 March, the Vis had cancelled the oral hearings in Vienna due to the global crisis caused by Covid-19.
In a statement at the time, the directors Prof Dr Christopher Kee, Prof Dr Stefan Kröll and Mag. Patrizia Netal, noted:
The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is one of the world’s largest experiential learning experiences for law students. Now in its 27th year, more than 2,400 law students, over 1,000 coaches, and an equal number of arbitrators from all over the world were set to come together in Vienna in the first week of April 2020. While we would normally say one of the Moot’s greatest strengths is that it is an event which brings together thousands of people from all over the world - that is unfortunately today as we must recognize, one of its greatest risks.
Having regard to the health and safety of all those who participate in the Vis Moot, we have found it necessary to cancel the Moot week and oral hearings that were to be held between 3-9 April 2020. Due to the recent developments concerning Covid-19 it would be irresponsible to gather thousands of people coming from so many different countries and run the risk to further spread Covid-19 into the world.
We are very conscious of the months of work that teams and their supporters have invested in preparing for this year’s competition and it is with considerable regret that we are unable to provide the students with the important learning experience of oral hearings held in person. As this is not possible we are investigating an online alternative and will be communicating directly with our Vis Moot community about that possibility.
We recognise also the impact a decision of this kind has on our sponsors. We remain indebted for their support, and particularly this year to the highly appreciated cooperation with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) whose arbitral rules we are using.
We extend our care and concern for all those impacted by the Covid-19 Virus and wish speedy recovery.
Then, on 28 March 2020, the moot announced that it would be going ahead entirely online with 248 participating teams.
The 2019 competition, actually held in Vienna, had seen 379 teams participate, following more than 20 pre-moots, so presumably a few had dropped out due to Covid-19 or other issues.
The logistical issues in getting this offline show on the virtual road so quickly must have been major, including signing up to an online dispute resolution platform, as well as issues such as dealing with a huge variety of timezones, for instance:
The moot will continue to run on Vienna time and in the usual Vienna timeslots. As teams and arbitrators are located all over the world, this means that for some moots will be at very odd times. We are grateful to those who responded and indicated their willingness to participate notwithstanding these odd times. Teams and Arbitrators will need to ensure they correctly adjust the published Vienna time for their own local timezones. PLEASE NOTE whilst Vienna will have gone onto daylight savings the weekend before the moot, there are countries which will be implementing time changes during the period of the Moot.
The one exception to the same timeslot approach is that all hearings in the Round of 64 will now be able to run concurrently - and so it will not be necessary to use an 8pm Tuesday time slot.
The transition to online seems to have gone smoothly for Vis, by all accounts so far.
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1. Better PR
2. Crack foreign law firm offers and more Big 7 domestic offers.
3. More UPSC rankers
4. Win some tier 1 moots.
5. Invite lots of good guest lecturers. Appoint NLU alumni as full faculty or part-time faculty
6. MoUs with good universities abroad.
7. Lobby for funding
Having said this, no one cares about which university you graduate from once you start working (and outside of occasional ribbing). Being a good person and a competent professional is important. /gyanover/
1. Please do a story on Stetson. India did outstandingly well. NUALS and NLIU Bhopal were winners and runners up respectively.
2. Bring back the mooting premier league. Its a good indicator of the depth of students of a law school. If not the only indicator.
3. Bring back the recruitment rankings. Only Legallyindia can do a honest assessment of recruitment situation in law schools. It was shameful how top law schools gave blatantly false figures to go up the NIRF rankings and lack of verification by NIRF.
Lately LI has only been doing deal reporting which is ok but we want the old LegallyIndia back.
Once again many congratulations but please do not discuss ranking as there is an existing system under NIRF.
1. NUJS
2. NUALS
3. NLIU
Very unfortunate that MPL has been scrapped just when NLSIU and NALSAR are getting weaker.
2. NALSAR and NLSIU had qualified for World Rounds of Oxford IPR Moot this year (Neither NUJS nor NUALS could achieve this).
3. NLSIU qualified for World Rounds of Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot.
Get a life bro. Stop spewing uninformed news.
Get you facts right dude
In fact, your petty ego shouldn't have hurt if you weren't "snotty" yourself to mention NUJS' achievement :)
1) NLSIU: Jessup x 2, Stetson x 1, Oxford IP x 1 = 4 Grand Slam wins
2) NUJS: Vienna x 2 = 2 Grand Slam wins
3) NALSAR: Vienna x 1 = 1 Grand Slam win
4) NLUJ: Stetson x 1 = 1 Grand Slam win
5) NUALS = Stetson x 1 = 1 Grand Slam win
6) GNLU: Stetson x 1 = 1 Grand Slam win
Based on the quality of India rounds (internal law school ranks for these moots [for those who do not do a separate selection for each]) and the international rounds these should be the top ones:
Jessup
Vis
Man Lachs
Vis East
Price Media
ICC
Manfred Lachs Space Moot, World Finals
Philip C. Jessup, Washington
Willem C. Vis (East), Hong Kong
Willem C. Vis, Vienna
www.legallyindia.com/wiki/Mooting_Premier_League_2014-15_moot_court_competitions
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS: 100 points
1. Average salary: 20 points
2. Percentage recruited: 20 points
3. Mooting success: 20 points
4. UPSC success for previous year: 10 points
5. Judicial services success for previous year: 10 points
6. LLM admissions in top 20 QS/Times universities: 10 points
7. LLM scholarships in top 200 QS/Times universities (100% scholarship only): 10 points
FACULTY QUALITY: 100 points
1. PhD from top 100 QS/Times university ranked in any discipline: 20 points
2. PhD from top 10 NIRF law school or general university in any discipline: 10 points
3. Master's from top 100 QS/Times university ranked in any discipline: 10 points
4. Bachelor's from top 10 NIRF law school or general university in any discipline: 10 points
5. Books published by leading publishers: 10 points
6. Publications indexed in Scopus/JSTOR/Westlaw/Hein Online: 10 points
7. Book chapters in books by leading publishers: 10 points.
8. Research grants: 5 points.
9. Prior practice or teaching experience prior to current institution: 5 points
10. Faculty-student ratio: 10 points
INFRASTRUCTURE: 100 points
1. Size of campus: 10 points
2. Number of textbooks in library: 5 points
3. Library area size: 5 points
4. Online databases subscribed: 20 points
5. Hostel rooms: students ratio: 10 points
6. Air conditioned hostel rooms: students ratio: 10 points
7. Air conditioned class rooms: students ratio: 10 points
8. Proximity to hospitals: 10 points
9. Proximity to malls: 5 points
10. Proximity to hotels: 5 points
11. Proximity to Police Station: 5 points
12. Proximity to airport: 5 points
www.livelaw.in/news-updates/covid-19-nujs-contributes-rs-500000-towards-west-bengal-state-emergency-relief-fund-read-press-note-155052?infinitescroll=1
2. The university is also located in a state and the money has been donated to a fund that is going to contribute towards relief activities for that state.
3. Since you are the one who is debating which fund it should have been donated to, the only person playing politics here is you.
4. The people donating do not have any problem, so your opinion does not count.
5. Go Corona Corona go.
www.hindustantimes.com/education/nirf-india-rankings-2020-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-disease-outbreak/story-SxqQ4EOXEnwTSfb9vq6JyL.html
NALSAR:
Manfred Lachs - 0
Vis East - 0
Vis Vienna - 1
ICC - 0
Jessup - 0
Oxford IP - 0
Stetson - 0
Price Media - 1
Total - 2
NUJS:
Man Lachs - 0
Vis East - 2
Vis Vienna - 2
ICC - 0
Jessup - 0
Oxford IP - 0
Stetson - 1
Price Media - 0
Total - 5
NLSIU:
Man Lachs - 3
Vis East - 0
Vis Vienna - 0
ICC - 0
Jessup - 2
Oxford IP - 1
Stetson - 1 (This may be more, data before 2009 could not be verified)
Price Media - 0
Total - 7
NLUD
Man Lachs - 1
Vis East - 0
Vis Vienna - 0
ICC - 1
Jessup - 0
Oxford IP - 0
Stetson - 0
Price Media - 1
Total - 3
Disclaimer: I respect all these NLUs and their students. I am happy that both have brought prestige and acclaim for the country in these competitions.
NUJS has also won Vis East twice, first in 2005 and then in 2017 by beating Houston and NALSAR respectively in the finals. The Wiki page indicates that. You can check here. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_in_the_Willem_C._Vis_International_Commercial_Arbitration_Moot
If you have any other source that contradicts this, please provide the same. I do not have any partiality towards NUJS as such and would happily stand corrected.
So it is not like vis vienna team includes vis east team, ofcourse they must have helped each other. i am sure that this also happens in other cllgs.
It is just people at Nujs are really thankful and grateful to vis east team or that they helped and they do deserve the credit.
And just to clarify only 3 people will get the certificate from Vis vienna, the JR who is a first year he won't get the certificate from VIS.
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