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Update 7 April 02:50: NLSIU Bangalore has won the finals of Jessup, defeating Singapore Management University (SMU) in the finals that began at just after midnight Indian time today.
An authoritative source in touch with persons present in Washington has confirmed the result of a team consisting of Raag Yadava, Geetha Hariharan, Shreya Jain and Akshaya Ramadurai.
No Indian team has won the Jessup since NLS brought the trophy to Bangalore in 1999.
NLU Delhi finished 19th at the moot, winning 3rd best combined memorial citation and an advanced round citation. NLU Delhi’s Deepika Sriram was adjudged 21st best Oralist.
The valediction ceremony is now over. Baxter and Dillard Awards for memorials to be announced later.
Update: 6 April 9:16: NLSIU is to meet Singapore (presumably National University Singapore (NUS)) in the finals of the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot in Washington.
US (possibly Columbia) and Argentina both knocked out.
The final is scheduled for 2pm Washington time, which is just after midnight on 7 April, Indian time.
News just in 5 April 23:30: NLSIU Bangalore has made it into the semi-finals of the Jessup - the world cup of mooting!
According to the Jessup organisers, teams from Argentina, Singapore and the US are also in the penultimate knock-out round.
The NLS team, consisting of Raag Yadava, Geetha Hariharan, Shreya Jain and Akshaya Ramadurai, is now just one win away from the finals.
Will they make it happen for Indian mooting?
Jessup update 5 April, 14:00: Confirmed, NLSIU is through to the quarter finals of the Jessup [Jessup confirmation]. Also in the quarters are one team each from Argentina, Israel, Singapore, and two teams each from Australia and the US.
Jessup update 4 April 22:27: NLSIU makes it to octa-finals of ‘mooting world cup’ after beating Brazilian team. NLU Delhi crashes out against three-year consecutive finalist Columbia.
Preliminary report: NLSIU Bangalore breaks as 15th, NLU Delhi as 19th in the Jessup. NLU D up against Columbia University.
More than 500 law schools from all over the world usually participate in this moot, which is also unofficially known as the world cup of mooting. Updates to follow as we get them.
Raag Yadava, Geetha Hariharan, Shreya Jain and Akshaya Ramadurai
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"One moment Sir...Two responses"
Go NLS...entire Indian law colleges community with you. Our faith in you and your ability gets restrengthened every time when you make us proud. We hope other colleges will follow the line with the so many achievements coming in every year. Man Lachs Worlds last year by NLS Bangalore, Vienna last year by NALSAR and so on and so forth..
Amidst all the inter-law school rivalry, which only a law-schoolite will understand and appreciate; the mutual respect, rarely admitted and always grudging, continues and how. As it has, and as it will, prickly and fully of banter.
Best of luck, and may you win the damn thing, you filthy scums!
Congratulations also to everyone who has ever mooted at NLS or in India for contributing to a mooting culture that can produce and support such outstanding teams and performances!
Best wishes,
Kian
Ps: By the way, please don't feed the trolls today who are feebly trying to start a national law school war.
Vote them down if you have to and chuckle at their comment, for they are quite amusing, but I don't think anything will be learned today in the stakes of 'my law school is better than, or at least as good as, yours'.
p.s- also, hearty thanks to the administration for making a goofball of a campus
you're certainly not from NLS B, otherwise you would have known that talent at NLS is not confined to a batch. Come, visit us and you ll realize the individual talent. And we promise you that we have the capability to take care of ourselves, with every year becoming more matured by taking criticism from shitz like you :)
So, peace bro. We will take care of NLS, you (...) take care of yourself :)
[quote name="EPL"]Congratulations to R. Venkata Rao for being the most successful VC in Law School history, Jessup, 2 Man Lachs and 4 (possibly 5) Rhodes Scholars.....also hats off to you Sir for appointing the best faculty, the real shiz starts next year when the present studly batch passes out!
p.s- also, hearty thanks to the administration for making a goofball of a campus[/quote]
http://www.lawctopus.com/video-a-jubilant-nlsiu-after-the-jessup-win/
Well Wisher from NALSAR