NUJS Kolkata, NLU Delhi, ILS Pune and Nalsar Hyderabad, which represented India at the world rounds of the [[Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot]], made the country proud with two teams breaking into the last sixteen, six speakers finishing in the top 100 oralists and three teams winning top memorandum awards.
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A total of 125 MPL points were earned by those four teams in this Tier 1 Global Championship Moot of MPL season 2 sponsored by Allen & Overy. This is one of the best collective performances by Indian teams in recent times at the World Rounds of Jessup.
[[NUJS Kolkata]] finished as quarter-finalists in the moot losing to Sydney University, but NUJS speakers Deepak Raju and Iram Haq were the 29th and 36th best oralists respectively. The Kolkata college also won the 16th best overall memorandum award to hit an MPL jackpot of 50 points including the honourable mentions at the moot – the most from a single moot this season.
[[NLU Delhi]] was the next best team as octa-finalists and its speakers Shreya Rastogi and Akshay BD won the 9th and the 17th best oralist awards respectively. The team also won the newly created Best Applicant Award, which took into consideration their performance in oration and the memorandum for the applicant side. NLU-D earned a grand total of 45 MPL points.
[[ILS Pune]] speakers Yogesh Ravi and Madhupreetha won the 30th and 56th oralist awards respectively, earning 20 MPL points, whereas [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] won the 10th best overall memorandum award and added 10 MPL points to its kitty.
After the Jessup International Rounds, ILS has moved to 5th position in the [[MPL Season Standings]]; whereas Nalsar, NUJS and NLU-D have retained 1st, 2nd and 3rd spots respectively, widening their lead over the rest.
But the point differential between the top three colleges has reduced and only 16 and 31 points respectively now separate NUJS and NLU-D from the lead.
Earlier this year, NLU-D and NUJS had qualified from the North India Rounds whereas ILS and Nalsar had qualified from the South India Rounds of Jessup for the International Rounds.
With Willem C. Vis [[Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna | Vienna]] and [[Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Hong Kong | Hong Kong]] coming up in the first half of next month, some significant changes in the standings can be expected.
Legally India’s Team MPL could not yet officially confirm Jessup results with the organisers but relied on unofficial reports from participants. The MPL point tallies therefore remain subject to final confirmation.
Last year NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar reached the quarter-finals and semi-finals of Jessup respectively.
[[Mooting Premier League 2 season standings]]
| Pos | Law school | Pts | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nalsar Hyderabad | 185 | [Jessup International Rounds] (10th Best Memorandum); Stetson World Rounds (8th best oralist); ISRO Manfred Lachs (Runners-up, Best Speaker); Leiden-Sarin (Runners-up); Amity (Semi-finalist, Best Memorandum); SP Sathe (Winner, best speaker); NLU-J Antitrust (Winner, best memorandum, best speaker); GIMC (Runners up); KLA Moot (Winners); BCI Moot (Winners);Jessup South (Runners up);NLIU-Juris Corp (Best speaker); Stetson South India (Winner), Nani Palkhiwala (Winners), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Semifinalist); Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Seminfinalist) |
| 2 | NUJS Kolkata | 169 | [Jessup International Rounds] (Quarter-finalist, 16th Best Memorandum, 29th Best Speaker, 36th Best Speaker); Fiat Justitia (Winners, best memorandum); [NLU-D Corp Law] (Runners up); NLU-J Antitrust (Semi finalist); KLA Moot (Best Speaker, Runners up);BCI Moot (Semifinalist); Commonwealth International Rounds (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); Jessup North (Runners-up, Best Memorandum); Oxford-Media India Round (Winner); Commonwealth India Rounds (Winners; Best Memo); Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Best Memo, Best Speaker, Semi-finalist) |
| 3 | NLU Delhi | 154 | [Jessup International Rounds] (Octa-finalist, Overall Best Applicant Award, 9th Best Speaker, 17th Best Speaker); Leiden-Sarin (Best speaker); Herbert Smith (Runners up, Best Speaker); Fiat Justitia (Runners up); DM Harish (Semifinalist);KLA Moot (Semifinalist);Jessup North (Winner, Best Speaker); KK Luthra (Runners up); HNLU Moot (Winner, Best Speaker, Best Researcher) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Semi finalist) Henry Dunant (Runners up) |
| 4 | NLSIU Bangalore | 101 | ISRO Manfred Lachs (Winner); Herbert Smith (Semifinalist);GIMC (Semifinalist); DM Harish (Best Researcher);BCI Moot (Runners up);Jessup South (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); KK Luthra (Semi finalist); Oxford-Media India Round (Runners up, Best speaker); Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Nani Palkhiwala (Best Speaker), Rizvi Moot (Winners) |
| 5 | ILS Pune | 94 | [Jessup International Rounds] (30th Best Speaker, 56th Best Speaker); Amity (Best Speaker); Raisoni (Runners up); Surana IT (Semi finalist); Surana Corp (Best Memorandum, Semifinalist); Jessup South (Winners, Best Memorandum);Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Winners) |
| 6 | NLU Jodhpur | 86.5 | ELSA-WTO Asia Rounds (Best Memorandum Overall, Best Memorandum Complainant); Amity (Runners up, Best Researcher); Herbert Smith (Best Memo, Semifinalist);Fiat Justitia (Super six); Surana IT (Runners up); Surana Corp (Winners); GIMC (Semifinalist);Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist, Best memorandum); NLIU-Juris Corp (Runners up); Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney (The Sarah Derrington Encouragement Award)* |
| 7 | HNLU Raipur | 74 | Red Cross Moot (Runners up); ULC Moot (Best Memorandum, Best Researcher);BCI Moot (Best Female Speaker);Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist); NLIU-Juris Corp (Winner); Henry Dunant (Winners) |
| 8 | RGNUL Patiala | 72.5 | SP Sathe (Runners-up); NLU-D Corp Law (Winners, best memorandum (joint), best researcher); Surana IT (Semi finalist); DM Harish (Runners up);KK Luthra (Best speaker); Stetson North (Semi finalist, best speaker); NLIU-Juris Corp (Semi finalist); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Runners up), Rizvi Moot (best speaker) |
| 9 | NLIU Bhopal | 72 | Herbert Smith (Winners);ULC Moot (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); Stetson North (Semi finalist); HNLU Moot {Semi-finalist) Nani Palkhiwala (Best Researcher), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Winners, Best Speaker), Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (semi-finalist) |
| 10 | NUALS Kochi | 68 | Stetson World Rounds (3rd best memo, 10th best oralist);Surana IT (Winners); Surana Corp (Best Speaker); Stetson South India (Runner-up, Best Memo), Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Runner up) Surana Trial Advocacy North (Best Memo), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Runners up) |
| 11 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 62 | Raisoni (Semi finalists, Best Memo); DM Harish (Winners); BCI Moot (Best Memorandum, Best Male Speaker);ICC Mediation (Special Award for the Team Which Best Acknowledged Cultural Differences);Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists); John Marshall (Winner, Ambassador Round), Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist) |
| 12 | RMNLU Lucknow | 49 | ISRO Manfred Lachs (Semi-finalist); SP Sathe (Semi-finalist, best memorandum); Surana IT (Best Memorandum); NLU-D Corp Law (Semi finalist); Surana Corp (Runners up); GIMC (Best Memorandum);Henry Dunant (Best Researcher) |
| 13 | Government Law College, Mumbai | 45.5 | NLU-D Corp Law (Best speaker); Fiat Justitia (Super six, best speaker); NLU-J Antitrust (Semi finalist); DM Harish (Best Memorandum);KLA Moot (Best Memorandum);Jessup South (Semifinalist);Nani Palkhiwala (Best Memo) |
| 14 | SOEL Chennai | 41 | Surana IT (Best speaker); NLU-D Corp Law (Semi finalist); Commonwealth India Rounds (Runners up, Best Speaker); Surana Int\‘l Minority (Winners), Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Runners up, Best Speaker) |
| 15 | UILS Chandigarh | 33 | ULC Moot (Winners); Stetson North (Runners up); Nani Palkhiwala (Runners Up), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Best Memo) |
| 16 | Campus Law Centre Delhi | 29.5 | SP Sathe (Semi-finalist); Fiat Justitia (Super six); NLU-J Antitrust (Runners-up); HNLU Moot (Runners up, Best Memorandum) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Winner) |
| 17 | Army Institute of Law, Mohali | 27 | KLA Moot (Semifinalist);Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Int\‘l Minority(Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (runner-up, best memo) |
| 18 | Amity Law School | 22 | ISRO Manfred Lachs (Semi-finalist); Amity (Semi-finalist); Jessup North (Semi-finalist); Stetson North (Best memorandum); Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists) |
| 19 | University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University, Delhi | 20 | Stetson North (Winner) |
| 20 | Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad | 15 | Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Speaker) |
| 20 | Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University | 15 | FDI Moot (Semi-finalist; 2 Honourable Mentions); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist), Rizvi Moot (semifinalist) |
| 20 | Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Government Law College Chennai | 15 | Amity (Winner) |
| 20 | Symbiosis, Pune | 15 | Raisoni (Winners); NLU-J Antitrust (Best researcher) |
| 24 | CNLU Patna | 13 | Jessup North (Semi-finalist); NLIU-Juris Corp (Semi finalist, Best Memorandum) |
| 25 | Bishop Cottons Women\‘s Christian Law School, Bangalore | 10 | Stetson South India (Best Speaker) |
| 26 | Baroda School of Legal Studies | 8 | Raisoni (Semi finalists, Best Speaker) |
| 27 | Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad | 5 | BCI Moot (Semifinalist); |
| 27 | Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur | 5 | Surana Int\‘l Minority (Best Speaker) |
| 27 | CMR Law College, Bangalore | 5 | ULC Moot (Runners up); |
| 30 | School of Law, Christ University | 4 | Surana Corp (Semifinalist); |
| 31 | CUSAT Kochi | 3 | Surana Int\‘l Minority(Semifinalist) |
| 31 | Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur | 3 | HNLU Moot (Semi finalist) |
| 31 | New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune | 3 | Surana Trial Advocacy South (Semifinalist) |
| 31 | Government Law College, Ernakulam | 3 | ULC Moot (Semifinalist); |
| 35 | NLU Orissa | 2.5 | NLU-D Corp Law (Best memorandum (joint)) |
| 36 | V.M. Salgaocar Law College, Panjim | 1.5 | Fiat Justitia (Super six) |
Legend: T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 (total points won in each tier); Pos (Position); W (Wins); R/u (Runner-ups); S/F- Semifinalist; B S (Best speaker); B M/R (Best Memorial/Researcher); HM (Honorable Mention & other equivalent awards); Pts (Points) For more information please refer to the [[MPL 2 rulebook]].
Comments
Have to say, NLS-D has proved its worth to all naysayers. Wishing NLU-D's mooters all the very best for the rest of their moots. Remember, NUJS won Vienna in its 3rd year as well!
What's with these rumours of clandestine NLUD parties? eh? :D
And BD and Co! Simply brilliant!
NLU-D's performance was stunning, hats off. NUJS did excellently, hats off again.
But what people need to know is that ILS failed to make the break of 32 from a total of 100 odd teams. That is a mark of extremely poor quality (and since when did the 56th rank speaker get an Hon Men???), because it is extremely hard *not* to make the break at the World Rounds. Shows that ILS never deserved to be there in the first place.
However, it sounds a little preposterous to count anything within the top 100 to be an "honorable mention". ILSA releases a regulation list of the top 100 speakers and top 30 memorials but that is no big deal. Only the top 10 (or possibly top 20) are equivalent to 'honorable mentions' because they are specifically mentioned and given awards at the closing ceremony. For instance, even last year three out of four Indian teams had memos in the top 30 and collectively had four speakers in the top 100 but they weren't they counted as honorable mentions in MPL 1. Only NLS' memo award where it stood fourth was counted as an honorable mention. You might want to reconsider your going overboard with MPL points for people standing 30th and 50th on a list.
Precisely. And getting the 16th-best memo out of 100 competitive memos is NOT worth an Hon Men!
The headline is rather misleading. Two teams did stunningly. NLU-D and NUJS. The other two, who failed to break, did not. Don't deflect attention from that by emphasizing on 30th and 56th speaking ranks.
Little disappointing for Nalsar but we are very happy at the good show by Indian law schools. Contrary to the popular perception that people may have from reading LI, law school-ites are not exactly in the law school slug fest always. In fact at our breakfast tables the conversation was about great Indian show and people showered plaudits on NLUD and NUJS.
Hopefully we shall keep our lead though.
Congratulations to all the Jessupers!
Let's all hope that Indian law schools are counted amongst the world's best!
apply ur "pea-sized" brain...akshay bd was doing jessups fr one complete year wd full dedication and devotion and results shows dat...MEANWHILE nlud HAS also done well in 13 other moots....so u hav no freaking idea of the kind of mooting force whch NLUD has with just 3 batches in place.
Indian cricket teams should have couple of NUJS mooters. For the 'big' matches.
Even if they think that everyone should get marks for the mentions how is it fair that the speaker having 9th rank in the international rounds of jessup (which is also the second best performance ever by any India, the best was 8th of V. Nirnajan in 2009), gets the same marks as the speaker having 27 or 35 or 55 rank. Please take this in account.
Stop being jealous when colleges win points and learn to appreciate the fact that they performed better than your college.
For the national moots, LI doesnot even recognize second best speaker award, and for there 100 speakers are being recognized. Sad fact.
My point is that only 10 honourable mentions for memorial and 20 for speakers should be there.
They issue certificate to top 100 speakers. Everybody gets certificate, where is the honourable mention.
So, LI if not this time, need to change their approach for coming seasons of mooting. Only 3-4 Moots are left. Right? World Rounds Lachs, NLS Arbitration, NALSAR Corporate Governance. Season is closing.
@ 22, if you count about the difference between the score,and taking excuse all range between 90 to 95. on that basis, there should be no winnner and runners up dude.. they are same most of the times. What matters is rank, not the score.
lets not worry about the points...appreciate the efforts of the participants and performances will definitely improve in the yrs to cum...
n yes,keep ur "gile shikwe" outside the LI forum because none of u come out with ur actual name and college...if u do comment,please have the guts to mention the right name because not mentioning it, creates a lot of misunderstanding between the colleges which are not actually fighting on this forum...
This has been the practice, and I see no reason to depart.
Either way, top 100 Oralist isn't really anything. Last year, NLS got both top 50 oralists but were not given any points. Neither was Jodhpur. The same carried for memos at Jessup last year. Why departing from this practice this year?
And just to put this in perspective, 2 teams out in prelims, one in octos is NOT a good performance. In fact, last year's was way better, as was the year before that.
Thank you. It's really strange how no attention is being focussed AT ALL on the fact that BOTH teams from the South failed to make the break at DC, and indeed ILS, the winners of the South, could not even get into the top 32. This is all the more important since they displaced NLS which, never in its history, has failed to make it past the prelims at the Jessup whenever it has gone.
It was actually very difficult for us to determine the cut off beyond which we should not award Hon'ble Mention points for Jessup. A couple of pointers helped us there.
Firstly, Jessup is a Tier 1 moot and another moot in the same tier (Vis, Vienna) awards about 115-120 Hon Mens for speakers and approximately 20 Hon Mens each for Claimant as well as Respondent. In one of the comments it was pointed out that there about 400 speakers in Washington Rounds. Even in Vienna there are about 500-600 speakers and out of them, 115-120 receive Hon Men. Now the problem is that Vienna people do not come up with a rank list of orators or memoranda. Thus, it is not possible to set a desired cut off point and consequently we have no choice but to award Hon Men points to all the colleges that feature in the respective lists. At the same time, we had to award similar points for Jessup too (otherwise there would have been a disparity between points awarded to two moots in the same tier). Hence, we decided to go by the organisers' list of top 100 orators and consider them equivalent to Hon Men. Same for memoranda points.
Secondly, for Jessup, if we consider the overall picture, the top 100 orators are in fact from a larger pool (which could easily be considered to have more than 1000 orators, given that more than 500 teams compete across the globe to make it to the Washington Rounds).
Thus, it appeared reasonable to us to award Hon Men points to the top 100 orators.
Thanks again for your comments and do let us know if you have any more thoughts on this!
Best,
Sanjay Khan
Secondly, you are mistaken about ILSA not giving honorable mentions. As an ex Jessupite I know for a fact that the top 10 speakers, top 5 speakers in invidual rounds and top 10 memos are announced at the closing ceremony and are given certificates/trophies. Now THAT is ILSA's internal cut off for an honorable mention. I don't know what the number was this year- they might have increased it to top 15 or 20 but there definitely is a cut off. In any case, please note that last year none of the four top 100 speakers or two top 50 memos (not counting NLS which was at 4) at Jessup got points and no one protested cuz even they did not consider it equivivalent to an honorable mention.
Lastly, FTR last year's performance was way better- We had 3 octo finalists, 2 quarterfinalsts and 1 semifinalist from India.
This argument makes no sense because the qualifying teams have got their MPL points for qualifying. Consider the International Round a new moot with 125-130 teams participating in it.
Last time NLS Team had Gautam Bhatia, V Niranjan ( two Rhodes Scholars ) and Raag Yadav, that in itself speaks.
31 and 32: We understand that the top 10 speakers and the top 5 memos for both the sides are awarded separately at the international rounds. However, the only problem was that awarding Hon Men points to just top 10 wouldn't have been objectively fair; considering that Vis HK, with participation of less than 80 teams, awards Hon Mens to more than 40 speakers. The 'cut off point' thing was for Vienna, not Jessup.
Do let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Sanjay
This years performance was good. Except for NALSAR all the speakers from India are in top 100, infact top 60. 9, 16, 29, 30, 36, 56 in around 400 speakers. seen world wide the total number of speakers is around 6 times that number around 2400.
Check the top oralists of previous jessups on their site for comparison.
And stop comparing jessup with William C Vis. Teams participating in jessup are winners from their regional rounds unlike VIS where anyone can participate (not saying VIS is a bad moot but jessup is any day better).
could those who oppose points for the top 100 speakers please mention in the comments the year in which they participated in jessup international and the oralist rank that they secured. Also, please mention which stage your team reached. I do not want comments saying my college won ___ and ___ moot in ___ year; speak about what you have done individually before you belittle achievements of others
If 40 doesn't discuss LI MPL scores on this post then what else?
Is this a forum to discuss 40's "acads"?
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