NLU Delhi inched closer to NLSIU Bangalore’s Mooting Premiere League (MPL) season 4 lead last week by winning the NLS International Arbitration Moot (NLSIAM 2013), including a citation for the competition’s overall best speaker.

A mere 30 points now separate the two leading mooting schools, with NLU Delhi having credited another 23 points into its kitty that was boosted by its Jessup performance in Washington and the Oxford Price Media Law Moot win.

The law school won no MPL points from the “best speaker in the finals” title awarded to it at the Tier 4 NLSIAM.

The NLU Delhi team comprised of overall best speaker Pranshu Paul, best speaker in the finals Akshay Shreedhar, and researcher Balvinder.

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Balvinder said: “There is no magic formula as such to figuring out how moots are done. [NLU Delhi] students are very serious about mooting, they put in a lot of hard work. Despite it being a co curricular activity, it is also a very serious academic exercise. Despite the fact that NLS has alumni who help them out a lot and we don’t have anyone as such, working really hard gives us a lot of advantage.”

Runners up NUJS and the best memorial citation winners NLU Jodhpur also added eight points each to their Herbert Smith Freehills MPL 4 scores, staying put in third and fourth place with 144 and 124 points respectively.

50 Indian and international teams were allowed to compete at the NLSIAM – now in its sixth year, according to the moot’s website.

Note: NLSIAM’s semi-finalists TBC.

Remaining MPL moots

12. 14 to 18 April: Commonwealth Moot Court Competition (Tier 2)

13. 21 to 26 April: ICC Trial Moot, The Hague (Tier 2)

14. 30 April to 5 May: ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition (Tier 4)

15. 3 to 5 May: ISRO Manfred Lachs Funding Rounds (Tier 2)

16. 1 to 2 June: Lachs Asia-Pacific Rounds (Tier 4)

17. 8 to 12 July: Maritime International Arbitration Moot (Tier 5) International law firm Herbert Smith 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]]	170		80	24	28		4	2	3	2	5	2	302	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); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Speaker) Jessup World Rounds (Winners) (Honorable Mentions- 2nd Best Oralist, Best Speaker in Finals)
    2	[[NLU Delhi]]	30	90	90	39	22	1	6	2	5	3	1	6	272	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); Red Cross Moot (Winners)(Best Speaker) ; Oxford IPR Moot (Runners Up); Leiden Sarin Air Law Moot (Best Speaker)(Honourable Mention for Best Applicant Team) Jessup World Rounds (Honorable Mentions - 19th Best Team, 21st Best Speaker, 3rd best Memo); Oxford Media Moot (Win, 2nd & 3rd oralist for HM); NLS Arbitration (Gold & best speaker)
    3	[[NUJS Kolkata]]	25	45		24	48	2	2	3	2	6		3	144	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); Vis (East), Hong Kong, (Honorable Mention- Best Pan-Asian Team); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Respondent Memo and Octa Finalists); NLS Arbitration (semi finals)
    4	[[NLU Jodhpur]]	20		30	43	30	1	2	3	5	3	1	2	124	(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); Vis East, Hong Kong (Honorable Mention - Respondent Memorandum, Honourable Mention, 2nd Best Oralist); NLS Arbitration (best memo)
    5	[[Symbiosis, Pune]]	40			35	15		1	1	1		2	2	90	(NLIU Juris Corp) Best Researcher; Kerala Law Academy (gold); Surana Corporate Moot (Semis) Amity Moot (Runners Up); GH Raisoni Moot (Winners) (Best Researcher); Vis (East) Hong Kong (Quarter Finalists) ( 2 Honorable Mentions for Speakers)
    6	[[ILS Pune]]	10	15	5	27	33		2	1	3	1	2	1	90	(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); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mention- Respndent Memorandum)
    7	[[RMLNLU Lucknow]]		30	30	4	20		1	2	1		2	3	84	(NLU Delhi Corp Moot) (gold, best researcher); (Surana Trial Adv - North) (memo);(Stetson North Rounds) (Gold), Jessup North (silver);GNLU International Moot (semifinalists); Stetson World Rounds (Semi Finalists) ( Honourable Mention - 2nd Best Memorial, 5th Best Speaker, 6th Best Speaker)
    8	[[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)
    9	[[Nalsar Hyderabad]]	30		5	8	25	1	1			1	2	3	69	(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); Vis (East), Hong Kong (Honorable Mention- Claimant Memo); Vis, Vienna (Honorable Mentions- Speaker, Claimant Memorandum)
    10	[[GNLU Gandhinagar]]			5	30	21	2		1	3	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); Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot (Semifinalists)
    11	[[RGNUL Patiala]]		20		32	5			2	1		3		57	(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); Vis (East), Hong Kong (Honorable Mention- Claimant Memo); Vis,Vienna (Honorable Mentions- Speaker.
    12	[[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)
    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	[[SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law]]			5		16				2	1	1		21	SLCU Moot (memo, semis); Jessup South (semis); ULC Bangalore (semis, memo)
    19	[[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad|Nirma University]]			10	8	3				3				21	Henry Dunant (semis); (Pro Bono) Semis; Stetson North Rounds (semis)
    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)

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