Good news everyone: the Legally India Mooting Premier League (MPL) is indeed and truly back, reincarnated now in its seventh edition after taking a break for a little more than a year.

For those unfamiliar, the MPL is simple: we track, with your help, all moots that matter to Indian law school mooters, both domestic and international. Each moot is assigned points, in accordance with the MPL rulebook (which will be updated for season 7), and at the end of the academic / mooting year, one college will be the indisputable mooting champion of the year. It's all very scientific, serious and also a lot of fun.

So, without much further ado, we’re kicking off MPL 7 now with a round-up of what has happened in the 2016-17 season so far.

After having tallied results from eight moots that have taken place this season, we are pleased to announce the preliminary ranking for the MPL 7, which sees mooting stalwart Nalsar Hyderabad, not to be outdone this year as in the last few, sit in first place with 32 points, after winning the Pro Bono Enviro Moot, and picking up best memo and best researcher citations at the Oxford Price (South Asia) and the GNLU Securities moot (as well as 2 points for organising BR Sawhney).

UILS Chandigarh and NLSIU Bangalore are both tied in second place, with respective wins in Henry Dunant and the Oxford Price South Asia moot.

And NLIU Bhopal is in fourth place with 28 points, having been the runner-up in the BR Sawhney moot court competition, the South Asia rounds of the Oxford Price Media Law Moot and at the Amity International Moot Court Competition.

Correction: Apologies, due to an error with our spreadsheeting, NLIU Bhopal was the runner-up in BR Sawhney and not the winner, as originally reported. The winner was RGNUL Patiala, which is now in the MPL 7's fifth position with 23 points. Nalsar Hyderabad now leads.

And, lest we overwhelm you with numbers and law schools, please check out the 18 other colleges that are also in our MPL 7 league tables already (see below: yes, it's quite big, but it's also exciting and you'll be able to follow it in real time at this link, for additional transparency of updates and to avoid any tabulation errors).

But now, for some MPL housekeeping to clear the cobwebs out, since it’s been a while since NLU Jodhpur won the last MPL in 2015.

1. Mooters and MCCs: Please welcome first member of the new Team MPL

First order of business: please welcome Nilav Banerjee to Team MPL. You can reach him at or Team MPL at .

And if you are a moot court committee (MCC), please send us an email at to briefly say hi, so we can more easily get in touch with you to confirm moot results, rulebook changes, and so on.

2. Feedback and suggestions required

Second, we would kindly request your feedback and suggestions. That goes in particular for which moots we should include, upgrade, downgrade, and so on this season. Please leave your thoughts in the comments or email us at . Please bear in mind factors like prestige of the moot, quality of the moot problem, standard of judging, fairness of evaluation, number of participants and so on. Please refresh yourself of the moots in the various tiers in MPL 6 and we hope to come out with an updated rulebook ASAP.

For instance, just amongst national law schools, there is DSNLU’s antitrust moot (in its 3rd edition this year), RMLNLU’s SCC International Media Law Moot (in its 3rd edition), CNLU’s P A Inamdar Moot (2nd edition), NUSRL’s Trial Advocacy Moot (3rd edition next year) and many others.

3. Have we missed anything yet?

Third: If you know who won best speaker (5) and best memo (5) at MC Chagla, please do let us know - we haven’t been able to confirm those yet. Also, have we missed any moots that have taken place in the season already?

4. A rule change

Fourth: We are proposing a prospective rule change that a university will not be eligible to win any points for in a moot that it also organises (other than organiser points). The idea is that in the few moots where a home team participates, this will reduce any possible appearance of bias or undue advantage being given to the organising university’s team. However, the given university will be awarded points for organizing the moot.

5. Feedback and suggestions required

Yes, that's the same point as 2 but that's because it bears repeating: MPL would be nothing without the participation and involvement of mooters, ex-mooters, future mooters and non-mooters. Please share your ideas, wishes, dreams and worst fears. And above all, have fun!

Happy mooting!

MPL 7 season standings