[[HNLU Raipur]] emerged victorious in the Tenth [[Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition]], which concluded in New Delhi late yesterday (12 September). Young law school [[NLU Delhi]] finished as the runner-up.
The two semi-finalists were NLIU Bhopal and Nirma Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. NLIU Bhopal bagged the Best Memorandum Award whereas Venu Nanavati from Nirma Institute of Law was adjudged Best Speaker of the moot.
The moot was organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL). The problem was based on International Humanitarian Law.
“Students came in with a lot of hard work. It was very difficult for the judges to give a clear mandate and it was a very close contest,” said Vinay Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, ICRC Centre for International Humanitarian Law, ISIL.
He said that 55 teams participated in this year’s competition.
Add details on [[Legallypedia]] about the [[Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition]].
MPL Moots: Version 2.02
We have made several changes to the [[MPL2 competitions|moot court competitions]] and scoring criteria for [[MPL 2|MPL Season 2]].
This new list of Moots contains considerable changes in the Tier System and the Scoring Criteria. A new fifth tier has been included to balance the moots in the other tiers. Also, some exceptional International Mooting Competitions (like ELSA WTO Moot, Frankfurt Arbitration, etc) see abysmal Indian participation, which is unfair to other participants in the MPL. Therefore, instead of excluding them from the MPL, we have demoted them to lower tiers to ensure fairness.
The list will be frozen soon depending on your comments.
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Provisional [[MPL2 competitions|list of moots]] to be included in [[MPL 2]]:
As you can see it’s bigger and hopefully even better than last year.
Tier 1 – Global Championships
These include the world finals most prestigious moot court competitions in the world and other world contests involving rigorous competition and wide participation- [[Manfred_Lachs_Space_Moot_Court_Competition#World_Finals|Manfred Lachs Space Moot, World Finals]]
- [[Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot|Philip C. Jessup, Washington]]
- [[Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Hong Kong|Willem C. Vis (East), Hong Kong]]
- [[Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna|Willem C. Vis, Vienna]]
Tier 2 – World Class
These are the widely recognised international mooting events where a substantial number of Indian teams participate. These moots enjoy worldwide reputation among law students.
- [[International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Competition The Hague|ICC Trial Moot, The Hague]]
- [[Manfred_Lachs_Space_Moot_Court_Competition_Sydney_Rounds|Manfred Lachs Space Moot, Sydney rounds]]
- [[Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot|Red Cross Moot]]
- [[Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition|Stetson World Rounds]]
Tier 3 – Elite Class
These mooting events are the best of the elite national contests and some of them are the gateway to the Global Championships/World-class moots in the above tiers.
- [[National Moot Court Competition, Bar Council of India Trust|Bar Council of India moot]]
- [[DM Harish Memorial Government Law College International Moot Court Competition|DM Harish Moot, GLC]]
- [[Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition|Henry Dunant Moot (India qualification rounds to Red Cross Moot)]]
- [[Oxford International Media Law Moot Court Competition|Oxford Media Law Moot]]
- [[Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot North India Rounds|Philip C. Jessup North India Rounds]]
- [[Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot South India Rounds|Philip C. Jessup South India Rounds]]
- [[Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition North India Rounds|Stetson North India Rounds]]
- [[Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition South India Rounds|Stetson South India Rounds]]
Tier 4 – National Challengers
Most of the contests in this Tier see participation from the top Indian Law Schools. A large number of them have also carved a niche for themselves in the national mooting scene. It also includes the [[ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law]], which is prestigious but only three Indian teams participated in last year’s Asian selection rounds.
- [[Commonwealth Moot Court Competition|Commonwealth Moot]]
- [[ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law|ELSA WTO Moot]]
- [[GNLU International Moot Court Competition|GNLU International Moot]]
- [[ISRO National Funding Round to Manfred Lachs Space Moot|ISRO Manfred Lachs funding rounds]]
- [[KK Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition, CLC New Delhi|KK Luthra Criminal Law Moot, Delhi]]
- [[KLA Moot Court Competition, Kerala|KLA Moot, Kerala]]
- [[MM Singhvi Memorial Bar Council of India International Law Moot Court Competition, NLU Jodhpur|MM Singhvi moot, NLU Jodhpur]]
- [[Nani Palkhiwala Memorial National Tax Moot Court, GLC Mumbai|Nani Palkhiwala Tax Moot, GLC]]
- [[NLSIU International Arbitration Moot Court|NLS International Arbitration]]
- [[NUJS Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition|NUJS Herbert Smith Corporate Moot]]
- [[Oxford International Media Law Moot Court Competition|Oxford Media Law Moot]] '''National Qualifiers'''
- [[Surana & Surana National Corporate Law Moot|Surana Corporate Moot]]
- [[Surana & Surana International Technology Law Moot|Surana International Technology Moot]]
Tier 5 - Best of the Rest
A varied tier that includes good domestic competitions that a range of Indian law schools take part, as well as prestigious international competitions that see only little Indian law school participation.
Tier 5: Domestic
- [[Amity Moot Court Competition]]
- [[GH Raisoni Law School Moot Court Competition|GH Raisoni Moot]]
- [[Justice Hidayatullah Memorial National Moot Court Competition|Justice Hidayatullah Memorial Moot]]
- [[NFCG-Nalsar Moot Court Competition on Corporate Governance|NFCG-Nalsar Moot on Corporate Governance]]
- [[Nalsar Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Moot Court Competition|Nalsar BR Sawhney Moot]]
- [[NLU Antitrust Moot Court Competition, NLU Jodhpur|NLU Antitrust Moot]]
- [[All India Corporate Law Moot Court Competition, NLU Delhi|NLU Delhi All India Corporate Moot]]
- [[Pro Bono Enviro National Moot Court Competition, SOEL Chennai|Pro Bono Enviro Moot SOEL Chennai]]
- [[Rizvi Moot Court Competition|Rizvi Moot]]
- [[SP Sathe Moot Court Competition, ILS Pune|SP Sathe Moot, ILS Pune]]
- [[Surana & Surana International Minority Rights Moot]]
- [[Surana & Surana National Trial Advocacy Moot#North India round|Surana Trial Advocacy Moot, North India round]]
- [[Surana & Surana National Trial Advocacy#South India round|Surana Trial Advocacy Moot, South India round]]
- [[ULC Bangalore All India Moot Court Competition|ULC Bangalore Moot]]
Tier 5: International
These moots are internationally prestigious but only currently see limited participation, and are therefore counted on par with Tier 5 moots. This recognises that winning such a competition is noteworthy but that it would not be fair to disadvantage colleges that could not afford to attend these. For example, only three Indian teams participated in ELSA Asian rounds last year, ICC Mediation Paris saw only 4 Indian teams, Frankfurt International Arbitration only three Indian teams, Maritime International Arbitration in Sydney only two Indian teams, and Oxford IPR saw only two to three Indian teams last year.
- [[ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, Asian rounds|ELSA WTO Asian rounds]]
- [[ICC International Commercial Mediation Moot Court Competition, Paris|ICC Moot, Paris]]
- [[International Infrastructure and Construction Law Arbitration Moot (IICLAM)|IICLAM Competition]]
- [[Frankfurt International Arbitration Moot Court Competition|Frankfurt International Arbitration Moot]]
- [[Maritime International Arbitration Moot Court Competition, Sydney|Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney]]
- [[Oxford International IPR Moot Court Competition|Oxford IPR Moot]]
Scoring criteria
| Category/Tiers | Tier 1 - Global Championships | Tier 2 - World Class | Tier 3 - Elite Class | Tier 4 - National Challengers | Tier 5 - Best of the Rest (Int’l & Domestic) |
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| Best team | 40 points | 30 points | 20 points | 15 points | 10 points |
| Runners-up | 35 points | 25 points | 15 points | 10 points | 7 points |
| Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher | 30 points each | 20 points each | 10 points each | 7 points each | 5 points each |
| Semi finalists | 25 points | 15 points | 10 points | 7 points | 5 points |
| Quarter Finalists | 20 points (except Lachs) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Octa Finalists | 15 points (except Lachs) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Honourable Mention/Other equivalent awards | 10 points | 5 points | N/A | N/A | Int’l Moots only: 3 points |
| Stats | |||||
| Number of competitions | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 20 |
| Total possible points for winners | 160 | 120 | 160 | 195 | 200 |
| Total points for runners-up | 140 | 100 | 120 | 130 | 140 |
Look through the list and decide whether you agree with the rankings.
- Do you agree with the scoring criteria? Should more points be given for a tier, or less points?
- Think of some catchy names to call each tier and let us know!
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Comments
Anyone who has any thoughts, please do share.
Not too sure if Vis (East) should be at par with Vis (Vienna), Jessup etc. In many cases East is used as a practice beofre the real thing. But guess you are also counting in the participation.
But let's not again start a debate of "my law school is better than yours".
-Best
In my opinion the qualitative distinction between tier 1 and tier 2 should not only be brand value but a reviewable standard like whether a moot has a natioanl qualifing rounds as a condition for eligibility before participation in the international rounds. Otherwise it is difficult to distinguish between a moots in tier 1 and tier 2, and would really depend on individual taste and preference.
I suggest T1 should include: Jessup World, Stetson World, Red Cross, Manfred world and any other international moot which has national qualifing rounds & T2 should include all other intl. moots which do not have qualifing rounds
-Best
@19.good point. didnt think of that, but since that one is any ways niether in T1 or T2 i guess that question wont arise.
Regarding Last comment, how can Nani Palkhiwala be equivalent to BCI. Making 8 memorandum of pleadings and 2 in Nani Palkhiwala. Palkhiwala is just specialized not like BCI in any ways....
I think the problem might be easy to resolve if we reduce the number of tiers so that one is easily able to distinguish the moots that should be in one and not the other.
If we're looking at brand value, HK should be in tier 2.
If we're looking at how hard it is to win the moot, HK should be in tier 2. This year onwards, Vis HK will have a total cap of 80 teams while Vienna will still have 400-500 teams. Are we still thinking of putting them in the same tier?
Or, you could just remove the distinction and put tier 1 and 2 moots in one tier. But that happens at the risk of people raising a hue and cry about it.
We are thinking about including Tankha, provided participation this year significantly higher than last year.
The reason behind adding Vis, HK to tier 1 was that it is much more competitive than other moots in tier 2. To add to that, majority of good teams that go for Vienna do turn up for HK too, maintaining the high standards of the competition. From the Indian teams' perspective, winning anything in HK is more difficult than winning anything at tier 2 moots.
Stetson and Red Cross have been included in tier 2 because the other tier 1 moots like Jessup, Vis and Lachs see wider International participation.
We shall look into other suggestions related to DM Harish, KLA Moot, IICLAM, Amity, NLS Arbitration, FDI California and John Marshall.
Do feel free to put in your suggestions in this thread or you can mail us at mooting [at] legallyindia.com
Thanks!
Sanjay/Prashanth
Totally second that..
The present tier placement is simply ridiculous: it incentivises colleges to not participate in elsa at all.
I guess rankings are alright with respect to ELSA. Mooting Premier League is a platform where the performance of 'Indian' law schools is analyzed.
I know for a fact that last year, only NUJS Kolkata, NLU Jodhpur and GNLU Gandhinagar participated in the ELSA Asian Qualifiers. The main reason why many Indian teams don't participate is because the Moot is extremely costly. People spend up to 3 lakhs for this Moot. If only three teams participate in a Moot, what is the point of putting it in a higher tier.
I clearly remember that NUJS came high up the rank list last season only because of this Moot. This was pretty unfair, considering their prominent opponents NLS Bangalore and Nalsar did not participate in Elsa at all.
Indian participation has to be the top factor while judging tiers. Otherwise, MPL will have no meaning at all.
In fact, it is good that ELSA is placed in Tier 4/5 right now. Instead of chucking it out of the MPL, they have kept it in the lower tiers so that people know about the Moot and any Indian achievement in the Moot can thus be acknowledged.
Cheers,
Fake MPL Player
You're crazy.
But, i agree with you that there should be a marked difference between the Runners up and semifinalist. Currently, the points for Semifinalists in Tier 4 and 5 are 7 and 5 points respectively. That should change to 5 and 3 respectively. Then, it will make more sense.