NUJS Kolkata has reclaimed third place from NLU Jodhpur in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) as it qualified from the ELSA WTO Asia Rounds last Friday in Taiwan, alongside Amity Law School (IP University, Delhi), which defeated Renmin University China.
Amity Delhi and NUJS both qualified for the ELSA WTO World Rounds at the WTO Headquarters in Geneva from 30th April to 5th May 2013. NUJS ended as semifinalists and NUJS’Anviti Chaturvedi also won best speaker in the prelim rounds at the moot hosted by Soochow University Law School Taipei in Taiwan.
This year’s competition saw 18 teams participate, out of which eight were Indian.
Amity’s team consisted of speakers Sambit Nanda and Yuvraj Khanna, and researchers Ankita Chadha and Nishant Anurag.
Khanna said: “It was big achievements for us, people at our college were really happy. We faced only Chinese teams throughout the competition. The moot problem was based on Chinese currency manipulation, so it was a great feeling.”
“The panellists consisted of WTO and WTI trade law experts who were extremely well versed in their field.” Khanna said that the University of Hong Kong was the best opponent they faced in “an intense matchup”.
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Amity Delhi added 10 points to its kitty and is now placed 17th in the Mooting Premier League 4 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills. NUJS added 8 points by finishing as semi-finalists and winning best speaker.
The see saw at top of the MPL table continued as NUJS undid NLU Jodhpur’s recent efforts, retaking the third spot. NLU-J had recently overtaken NUJS in the MPL at the Herbert Smith Freehills Corporate Law Moot which was held in NUJS’ own backyard earlier this month.
Note: Amity has been awarded 2 points for having organised the Amity Moot held in the first week of March – the team it fielded was an equalising team, which was not eligible to progress in the competition.
NLU Cuttack’s ’s points have also been changed to correct an earlier double-counting error in their Amity Moot points.
International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is sponsoring the Mooting Premier League (MPL) and will contribute a prize pool of Rs 60,000 for the top three winning colleges.
[[Mooting Premier League 4 season standings]]
| Pos | Law school | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | Org | W | R/u | S/F | B S | B M/R | HM | Pts | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [[NLSIU Bangalore]] | 100 | 80 | 24 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 232 | Rizvi Moot (Semis); Surana Trial - South (Gold); Manfred Lachs Space Moot World Rounds (Gold, memo, speaker); Stetson South India (Gold); Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers (Silver, speaker); KK Luthra Criminal (semis); Jessup South Rounds (Gold, memo, speaker); GIMC (silver); Kerala Law Academy (semis) NUJS Herbert Smith (Best Memo) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Runners Up) (Best Researcher) (Best Memo) | |||
| 2 | [[NLU Delhi]] | 90 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 116 | HMMCC (Semis); Henry Dunant (gold); NLU Delhi Corp Moot (organiser); NLIU Juris Corp (Semis); Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers (Gold, memo); Commonwealth Moot Nat’l (semis); Stetson North Rounds (silver, speaker), Jessup North (Gold); Kerala Law Academy (silver) NUJS Herbert Smith (Semis) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Semifinalist) | ||||
| 3 | [[NUJS Kolkata]] | 35 | 16 | 48 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 101 | HMMCC (Best team)(speaker) (Nani Palkhivala (silver); (BR Sawhney (speaker);(SLCU Moot (Gold, speaker); Surana Trial North East: (silver); (KK Luthra) (speaker); DM Harish (semis & speaker); NUJS Herbert Smith (org); ELSA WTO Asian Rounds (Best Speaker) (Semis); | ||||
| 4 | [[NLU Jodhpur]] | 30 | 35 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 96 | (Henry Dunant) (silver); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (semis); (B.R Sawhney Moot) (semis) ; (NLIU Juris Corp) (Semis); (Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers) (Semis);(Commonwealth Moot National Rounds) (Gold) (speaker), Jessup North (semis, speaker);(KK Luthra) (Gold); ULC Bangalore (silver); NUJS Herbert Smith (Runners Up) (Best Speaker) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Organizers) | ||||
| 5 | [[HNLU Raipur]] | 10 | 32 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 84 | Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher); (Pro Bono) (Runner’s Up, speaker, Best researcher, memo) (Rizvi Moot) (silver) (Justice Hidayatullah Moot) (organizer) (Stetson North Rounds) (memo); Surana Trial North East (winner, speaker) (KK Luthra) (memo); Kerala Law Academy (semis) Amity Moot (Best Memo) NUJS Herbert Smith (Semis) | |||
| 6 | [[ILS Pune]] | 15 | 5 | 27 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 80 | (HMMCC) (Best researcher); (SLCU Moot) (silver); (NLIU Juris Corp) (gold); (Stetson South India)(Semis); DM Harish (semis) Surana Corporate Moot (Best Oralist) (Semis); ULC Bangalore (orator); GH Raisoni (Semis) ; NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Winners) | |||
| 7 | [[GNLU Gandhinagar]] | 5 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 58 | (Nani Palkhivala) (best team); (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (Best team);(FDI Moot) (Honourable Mention);Jessup North (semis); GNLU International Moot (organizers) Surana Corporate Moot (Gold); GH Raisoni Moot (Runners Up)(Best Mooter) NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Semifinalist) | ||||
| 8 | [[RGNUL Patiala]] | 20 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 57 | (Nani Palkhivala) (Semis); (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (semis); B. R Sawhney Moot (silver); (NLIU Juris Corp) (silver); Amity Moot (Best Researcher) (Best Memorial) | ||||||
| 9 | [[RMLNLU Lucknow]] | 30 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 54 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (gold, best researcher); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (memo);(Stetson North Rounds) (Gold), Jessup North (silver);GNLU International Moot (semifinalists) | ||||||
| 10 | [[Symbiosis, Pune]] | 35 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50 | (NLIU Juris Corp) Best Researcher; Kerala Law Academy (gold); Surana Corporate Moot (Semis) Amity Moot (Runners Up); GH Raisoni Moot (Winners) (Best Researcher) | ||||||
| 11 | [[Jindal Global Law School]] | 20 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 43 | (Nani Palkhivala) (memo)(Henry Dunant) (best researcher, semis); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (gold); (Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers)(Semis); NLU-J Antitrust Moot (Best Speaker) | |||||
| 12 | [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] | 5 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 39 | (HMMCC (silver); (Rizvi Moot) (Best team); (B.R Sawhney Moot) (organisers); (NLIU Juris Corp) (speaker);(FDI Moot (memo);(Commonwealth Moot National Rounds) (memo); Jessup South (Semifinalists) | |||||
| 13 | [[NUALS Kochi]] | 10 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 38 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (silver); (Stetson South) (memo); Kerala Law Academy (memo) Amity Moot (Winners) | ||||||
| 14 | [[Faculty of Law, Jamia Milia Islamia University]] | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | Nani Palkhivala (speaker); Henry Dunant (memo); Surana Trial adv-North (Silver, speaker) | ||||||
| 15 | [[GLC Mumbai]] | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 26 | (Surana Trial Advocacy South) (silver) (NLU Delhi Corp Law Moot) (Semifinalist); Jessup South Rounds (silver); GNLU International Moot (memo) | |||||||
| 16 | [[NLUO Cuttack]] | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 25 | B.R Sawhney Moot (memo); NLIU Juris Corp (memo); GH Raisoni Moot (Best Memo) (Semis);Amity Moot (Semifinalists) ; | ||||||||
| 17 | [[Amity Law School,Delhi (IP University)]] | 5 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24 | Commonwealth Moot (semis); Stetson North Rounds (semis); GIMC (semis) Amity Moot (Organizers) ; ELSA WTO Asian Rounds (winners) | ||||||
| 18 | [[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad|Nirma University]] | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21 | Henry Dunant (semis); (Pro Bono) Semis; Stetson North Rounds (semis) | ||||||||
| 19 | [[SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law]] | 5 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | SLCU Moot (memo, semis); Jessup South (semis); ULC Bangalore (semis, memo) | |||||||
| 20 | [[CNLU Patna]] | 20 | 1 | 1 | 20 | (Stetson South) (Silver); Jessup North (memo) | |||||||||
| 21 | Campus Law Centre, New Delhi | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | KK Luthra (Semifinalists); NUJS Herbert Smith Moot (Winners) | ||||||||
| 22 | [[ULC Bangalore]] | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | (NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (memo);(Pro-bono Enviro Moot (Gold); ULC moot (org) | ||||||||
| 23 | [[NLIU Bhopal]] | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | HMMCC (Semis, memo); Nani Palkhivala (semis); NLIU JurisCorp (org); | |||||||
| 24 | [[Amity Law School Noida]] | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | Rizvi Moot (semis, speaker, memo); | ||||||||
| 25 | [[KLA, Trivandrum]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | Stetson South (speaker) | ||||||||||
| 26 | [[Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (speaker); | ||||||||||
| 27 | [[KIIT School of Law]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | B.R Sawhney Moot (Gold) ; | ||||||||||
| 28 | Faculty of Law, Allahbad University | 10 | 1 | 10 | ULC Bangalore (Gold) | ||||||||||
| 29 | Faculty of Law, Benaras Hindu University | 8 | 8 | Surana Corporate Moot (memo) | |||||||||||
| 30 | [[CUSAT Kochi|School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi]] | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Surana Trial South (memo, semis); | |||||||||
| 31 | [[UILS Punjab]] | 8 | 1 | 8 | Kerala Law Academy (speaker) | ||||||||||
| 32 | [[School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur]] | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | Surana Trial - South (semis); Pro Bono (Semis) | |||||||||
| 33 | [[V.M. Salgaoncar, Goa]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | Stetson South (Semis) | ||||||||||
| 34 | [[A K K New Law Academy, Pune]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | Commonwealth Moot National Rounds (Runners Up) | ||||||||||
| 35 | [[New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | Surana Trial Adv - South (speaker); | ||||||||||
| 36 | Lucknow University Faculty of Law | 5 | 1 | 5 | Surana Trial Adv - North East (memo) | ||||||||||
| 36 | GLC Ernakulam | 5 | 1 | 5 | ULC Bangalore (memo) | ||||||||||
| 37 | Symbiosis, Noida | 4 | 1 | 4 | Amity Moot (Semifinalists) | ||||||||||
| 38 | Law Centre-I, Delhi University | 3 | 1 | 3 | ULC Bangalore (Semifinalists) | ||||||||||
| 39 | JSS Law College, Mysore | 2 | 2 | Surana Corporate Moot (Organizer) |
For more information please refer to the [[MPL 4 rulebook]].
Comments
However, didn't realise this was a Tier 5 international moot, for which we allocate 3 Honourable mention points too for citations. We'll work out where they should fall in this case, without overpowering ELSA Asia.
Do let us know if you have any thoughts.
Best wishes,
Kian
But what about the best memo award?
Will update when we confirm. Thanks!