NLU Delhi now MPL 4th: Finishes 2nd in KK Luthra ahead of NLSIU but beaten by Yanks

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George Washington University defeated [[NLU Delhi]] to win the K.K. Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2011. With a total of 41 points, NLU Delhi has now jumped to fourth position in the [[MPL 2 season standings]].

[[NLSIU Bangalore]], semi-finalist at the competition, earned an important four points to move to third spot in the standings with a total of 43 points. Warwick University was the other semi-finalist.

[[RGNUL Patiala]] added to its recent successes at NLIU-Juris Corp and Stetson North and became the third college to earn MPL points that moot as Vinayak Gupta bagged the best-speaker award. With a total of 36 points, RGNUL now stands at sixth position in the standings.

George Washington University won the Best-memorandum award at this tier 4 moot.

[[NLIU Bhopal]] currently leads in the MPL with 49 points, only three points ahead of [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] and six points ahead of [[NUJS Kolkata]].

The moot was organised by Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra, the son of the late K. K. Luthra, in association with [[Campus Law Centre Delhi]].

Harman Walia from Campus Law Centre Delhi confirmed the results and said that the moot was organised on a large scale, seeing the participation of 46 teams including two foreign teams. We had advocates and judges from the High Court and the Supreme Court who adjudged the various rounds of the competition, he added.

The moot problem was based on International Law and involved aspects related to genocide and jurisdiction.

[[Mooting Premier League season 2 standings]]

PosLaw schoolPtsDetails
1NLIU Bhopal49Stetson 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)
2Nalsar Hyderabad46NLIU-Juris Corp (Best speaker); Stetson South India (Winner), Nani Palkhiwala (Winners), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Semifinalist); Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Seminfinalist)
3NUJS Kolkata43Oxford-Media India Round (Winner); Commonwealth India Rounds (Winners; Best Memo); Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Best Memo, Best Speaker, Semi-finalist)
3NLSIU Bangalore43[KK Luthra] (Semi finalist); Oxford-Media India Round (Runners up, Best speaker); Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Nani Palkhiwala (Best Speaker), Rizvi Moot (Winners)
5NLU Delhi41[KK Luthra] (Runners up); HNLU Moot (Winner, Best Speaker, Best Researcher) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Semi finalist) Henry Dunant (Runners up)
6RGNUL Patiala36[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)
7NUALS Kochi35Stetson 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)
8HNLU Raipur34Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist); NLIU-Juris Corp (Winner); Henry Dunant (Winners)
9SOEL Chennai30Commonwealth India Rounds (Runners up, Best Speaker); Surana Int\‘l Minority (Winners), Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Runners up, Best Speaker)
10UILS Chandigarh23Stetson North (Runners up); Nani Palkhiwala (Runners Up), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Best Memo)
11Campus Law Centre Delhi20HNLU Moot (Runners up, Best Memorandum) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Winner)
11NLU Jodhpur20Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist, Best memorandum); NLIU-Juris Corp (Runners up); Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney (The Sarah Derrington Encouragement Award)*
11University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University, Delhi20Stetson North (Winner)
14Army Institute of Law, Mohali19Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Int\‘l Minority(Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (runner-up, best memo)
15Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad15Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Speaker)
15ILS Pune15Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Winners)
15Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University15FDI Moot (Semi-finalist; 2 Honourable Mentions); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist), Rizvi Moot (semifinalist)
18Amity Law School13Stetson North (Best memorandum); Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists)
18GNLU Gandhinagar13Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists); John Marshall (Winner, Ambassador Round), Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist)
20Bishop Cottons Women\‘s Christian Law School, Bangalore10Stetson South India (Best Speaker)
20RMNLU Lucknow10Henry Dunant (Best Researcher)
22CNLU Patna8NLIU-Juris Corp (Semi finalist, Best Memorandum)
22Government Law College, Mumbai8Nani Palkhiwala (Best Memo)
24Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur5Surana Int\‘l Minority (Best Speaker)
25CUSAT Kochi3Surana Int\‘l Minority(Semifinalist)
25Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur 3HNLU Moot (Semi finalist)
25New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune3Surana Trial Advocacy South (Semifinalist)

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

Anonymous guest 19 Jan 2011, 02:32
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Good going NLU Delhi...
Anonymous guest 19 Jan 2011, 14:33
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Congrats NLU D team. I am from NUJS and was told by our team about your performance. commendable especially for a new college. keep it up
Anonymous guest 22 Jan 2011, 04:01
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glc received a honourable mention, if that counts...
Anonymous guest 24 Jan 2011, 04:47
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yanks?? Erm...Kian??
Anonymous guest 30 Jan 2011, 05:05
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NLU Delhi has won the National Rounds of the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law moot, alongwith the Best Memorial Award. Seven Indian participated in this moot nad the top three teams shall be participating in the internationla rounds of this moot.

Clearly, since this noot is not their in MPL once again NLU Delhi will miss out on due credit it deserves. It happened the last time when LawAsia moot was not included despite 4 Indians teams participating including NLS Bangalore.

I dont want to sound pejorative but its high time a system is evolved to give us due credit. If Leader of the scoring board is so unfairly treated, its going to seriously damage the credibility of the not only the MPL of the entire website.

If you are going tell me its too late to include it, and it unfair to the other teams. Please look back to how NLU Jodhpur was awarded points retroactively for some International MArtime Moot in which on 3 Indian teams partcipated.

Honestly, missing out on points after WINNING TWO INTERNATIONAL MOOTS is the height of discrimination. Its only a matter of time before MPL looses its credibility.