NLU-J overtakes NLU-D for 2nd MPL place chased by GLC after win at Amity moot

In the [[Amity Moot Court Competition]], [[GLC Mumbai]] got the better of [[NLU Jodhpur]], but the best speaker and the best researcher awards in the moot took NLU Jodhpur 18 points ahead of [[NLU Delhi]] into second position.

[[NLSIU Bangalore]] is 104 points ahead and continues to lead the MPL 3 standings.

The Amity moot ensured that GLC made a century in this MPL as it ended with 106 points in fourth place, just three short of NLU Delhi. This is a marked improvement from last season’s rankings where GLC ended up with just 45 points.

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Thanks to the semifinal finish and the best memorandum award at the Amity moot, [[RGNUL Patiala]] jumped five places from the 15th to the 10th position with 51 points.

[[Campus Law Centre Delhi]] also finished in the semis. Saransh Kumar from NLU Jodhpur won the best speaker award and RGNUL Patiala took home the best memorandum award. NLU Jodhpur researcher Suman Meena won the best researcher award.

Speakers Tushad Kakalia and Ayushi Anandpara and researcher Bhrigu Sharma formed the GLC team. Anandpara said that the team had a brilliant experience and were happy with the quality of judging. “Till the quarters, we had great judges who asked basic fundamental questions. In the semis and the finals we had exceptional High Court judges.” She also praised the moot’s organisation.

Anandpara said that the eight teams that broke into the quarters were equally good. “We were not really worried about reaching the quarters, but once we did break into the quarters, we faced ILS Pune and that was the toughest round for us. All the eight teams were really good.”

Sudipto Sircar, an organiser from Amity Law School, Delhi confirmed the results and said that even though 18 teams had registered for the moot, only 14 turned up. “This may be because of the complexity of the problem, which was primarily on private international law, conflict of laws and law of contracts.”

Amity was awarded organiser points as it did not participate in the moot.

[[Mooting Premier League 3 season standings]]

PosLaw schoolPtsDetails
1NLSIU Bangalore231DMH (best speaker); Surana Corp (silver, best memo); GIMC (gold); KLA (best memo); Rizvi (gold); Jessup South (gold, best memo); Oxford Media India rounds (silver, best memo); Stetson South (gold, best memo); NLIU-Juris Corp (gold, best speaker, best memo); Palkhivala (gold); Dunant (silver); B.R. Sawhney (gold); Trial Adv South (silver); Raj Anand Moot (semis); Maritime Arbitration (semis, best memo, hon men for best resp memo);
2NLU Jodhpur127[NLU Antitrust] (organiser); [Amity moot] (silver, best speaker, best researcher); Surana Tech (semis); GIMC (silver); Jessup North (best speaker); Stetson North (gold); Hidayatullah (gold, best speaker, best memo); Dunant (best memo); Trial Adv North (silver, best speaker, best memo); IICLAM (gold);
3NLU Delhi109ULC moot (best male speaker, best female speaker); BCI-Nirma (semis); Surana Tech (semis); DMH (semis); KLA (semis); Jessup North (gold); KK Luthra (gold); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (best researcher, semis); Oxford Media India rounds (gold, best speaker); (Law Asia (semis); Dunant (semis); IICLAM (organiser);
4GLC Mumbai106[Amity moot] (gold); DMH (best memo); NUJS-HS (gold, best speaker, best memo); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (best speaker); NLIU-Juris Corp (semis); Trial Adv South (gold, best speaker); IICLAM (Best Memo); Raj Anand Moot (silver);
5Nalsar Hyderabad80[NLU Antitrust] (silver, best memo); BCI-Nirma (gold, best female speaker); DMH (semis); Jessup South (semis); Oxford Media India rounds (semis);Dunant (gold); B.R. Sawhney (organiser);
6NUJS Kolkata79[NLU Antitrust] (gold, best researcher); NUJS-HS (organiser); KLA (silver); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (gold, best memo); Oxford Media India rounds (semis); NLIU-Juris Corp (semis); Hidayatullah (silver, best researcher); B.R. Sawhney (semis); SLCU Moot (silver, best speaker, best memo); Trial Adv North (semis);
7NLIU Bhopal59[NLU Antitrust] (best speaker, semis); BCI-Nirma (semis); NUJS-HS (silver); GIMC (semis); Rizvi (silver, best speaker); NLIU-Juris Corp (organiser); SLCU Moot (gold); Raj Anand Moot (semis, best memo);
8ILS Pune57Surana Tech (silver); GIMC (best memo, best speaker, semis); KK Luthra (silver); Stetson South (best speaker); B.R. Sawhney (best speaker, semis); Trial Adv South (semis);
9RMLNLU Lucknow53DMH (best reseracher); Surana Corp (semis);KK Luthra (best memo); Stetson North (silver); Palkhivala (silver); Trial Adv North (semis);
10RGNUL Patiala51[Amity moot] (best memo, semis); ULC moot (silver); Surana Tech (best memo); Jessup North (semis); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (semis); Stetson North (best speaker); Hidayatullah (semis); B.R. Sawhney (best memo);
11School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore49Surana Corp (gold, best speaker); KLA (best speaker); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (organiser); IICLAM (silver, best speaker); SLCU Moot (organiser);
12GNLU Gandhinagar47[NLU Antitrust] (semis); GIMC (organiser); Jessup North (best memo, semis); Palkhivala (best researcher, semis); B.R. Sawhney (silver); Trial Adv North (gold);
13SOEL Chennai45BCI-Nirma (silver, best male speaker); Jessup South (silver, best speaker); Stetson South (semis);Trial Adv South (best memo);
14Campus Law Centre Delhi45[Amity moot] (semis); ULC moot (semis); KLA (gold); Raj Anand Moot (gold, best speaker);
15HNLU Raipur39Jessup North (silver);Stetson North (semis); NLIU-Juris Corp (best researcher); Palkhivala (best speaker, semis); [Hidayatullah (organiser); SLCU Moot (semis);
16Jindal Global Law School33ULC moot (gold); NUJS-HS (semis); KK Luthra (semis); Dunant (best speaker, semis);
17Symbiosis Law School, Pune31ULC moot (best memo); Surana Tech (organisers); NUJS-HS (semis); Rizvi (best memo, semis); Palkhivala (best memo); IICLAM (semis);
18School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi23Surana Tech (gold, best speaker);
19V M Salgaocar Law College, Goa10Stetson South (silver);
20Army Institute of Law, Mohali10Stetson North (best memo);
21Amity Law School IP University Delhi10[Amity moot] (organisers); NLIU-Juris Corp (silver);
22KLE Bangalore9ULC moot (best researcher); IICLAM (semis);
23School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur6ULC moot (semis); Trial Adv South (semis);
24CNLU Patna5Stetson North (semis);
24New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune5Stetson South (semis);
24Dr. Ambedkar Law College, Chennai5Jessup South (semis);
27NUALS Kochi5SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (silver);
28AKK New Law Academy, Pune4KLA (semis);
28Symbiosis Law School, Noida4Surana Corp (semis);
30ULC Bangalore4ULC moot (organisers); SLCU Moot (semis);
31SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law3Hidayatullah (semis);
31Guru Gobind University3Rizvi (semis);
33J S S Law College, Mysore2Surana Corp (organiser);
33Nirma University2BCI-Nirma (organisers);

Legend: gold (winners); silver (runner-up); semis (semi-finalist); best memo (best memorandum); best researcher; best speaker; hon men (honourable mention); resp (respondent); organiser (organiser points)

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Comments

NLUJ 11 Mar 2012, 05:17
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Go NLUJ!
arthur 11 Mar 2012, 07:22
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rngul...lol..

that is rgnul...
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congratulatins nlu-j and glc
Guest 11 Mar 2012, 10:29
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Good to see GLC making a comeback. Contrary to the perception that LST put in our heads, seems that GLC hasn't completely lost its sheen.
Breaking! 11 Mar 2012, 18:14
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CLC, Nalsar, CNLU and Symbi break into the semis of BCI Moot.
Breaking! 12 Mar 2012, 18:09
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SURPRISE- CNLU Patna beats CLC, Delhi in the finals of the BCI Moot! Nalsar and Symbi knocked out in the semis!
why? 13 Mar 2012, 18:35
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Why surprised?
mooting fever 11 Mar 2012, 19:00
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this moot should be shifted to the tier 5 spot due to such a low participation... Even tier 5 moots have more participation... People please voice ur opinion
another mooter 12 Mar 2012, 01:28
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I agree with you there but thats how NLU-J manages to do so well. They go for these moots where no other respectable national university participates and make some points there and claim to be in the top 3 of MPL. Its like the Pakistan team playing only Bangladesh and Zimbabwe and then claiming to be one of the top 3 cricketing nations.

If you scrutinize the results of NLU-J's recent performances you would see that they have never won a respectable national or international moot. So before u think about striking down the moot, think of NLU-J! Talk to their mooters and you will be ashamed to call yourself one.

Cheers.
@another mooter 12 Mar 2012, 06:49
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I don’t know why you’re saying so. The year we had participated, we were semi-finalists at Amity and all the so-called top national law schools had participated including Nalsar, NUJS, NLUJ, NLIU. Amity has been a good moot to participate. And mind you, I am from one of the NLUs as well. NLUJ does well in moots, if not great and no one should take that credit away.
NLUJahahah 12 Mar 2012, 06:59
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another mooter at #5.1, lucky you! I'm free so you're going to get a proper response.

First - We don't actually spend our time plotting our path up the MPL rankings, as you seem to imply. We don't 'go for' any particular kind of moot. We attempt to win every moot we go for and happen to win some of those we participate in. That those wins garner points on the MPL is a happy coincidence.

Second - Your point on indiscriminate participation is correct. In recent years our moot committees have consciously attempted to send kids to as many moots as they can identify - even newer, less reputed moots- simply to encourage an enthusiasm for it. Not every moot is Jessup and not every mooter will care to do Jessup. Some people would simply like to try the experience and we attempt to offer it without making crass judgments about the respectability of those moots or expecting other students to take our word on such as law.

Third - There is no singleminded obsession with mooting at as activity here. We pursue it with the same benign interest with which we also write papers, play the guitar, take up photography and debate. Certainly our mooters aren't the best, but they're reasonably articulate, well-adjusted and fantastically employed. We like this compromise.

It's so difficult to address you while you're up on that high horse of yours.. do you mind getting off so it's easier for us to see what a jackass you are? Thanks!
indian 17 Mar 2012, 13:00
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hey....i have witnessed many moots as a judge. i can tell you that nlu-j has most disciplined, dedicated, well-researched scholars. they r good mooters too. i contradict that perception
Amitian 12 Mar 2012, 07:05
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I wonder when my law school will stop acting as a Stepping Stone for other Law school's common guys, stop giving free gun shots to other's, we are sliping down we need to pull our socks and move up in the ranks.
NLU J FTW. 12 Mar 2012, 11:46
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we as a college have an unsaid policy to be out of these LI comment skirmishes. but 'another mooter's' comments are so absurd that i have to respond.
firstly, we go for all the moots. and the best teams go for the best moots. as a college we have done very well at those moots too.we've gone to jessup more number of years than many colleges have existed. we made it through stetson this year, like we always do. GIMC, IICLAM are not small moots. and by no measure is Amity too, it is perhaps the only moot to be judged by SITTING judges of the high court and supreme court.
if you think that we've never won an international moot. see our wiki page the next time you go there to make your project.
duh! 12 Mar 2012, 19:26
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Oh man! I think considering the responses from people from NLU-J i think they should be stripped of their national law school tag.

The idea is not to only go for the best moots but win them too. I think barring NLSIU, NALSAR and NUJS to some extent no other college in India has even remotely come close to winning a moot. Your claim to fame has been mere participation at the international moots. Look at NALSAR and NUJS, which were established around the same time and have achieved much more. Moots in India are no comparison to Stetson, Jessup, Commonwealth, Vienna and Hongkong. Mere participation in the moots after clearing an internal round of selection is not indicative how good one's college is in mooting. Considering the number of national moots that take place so frequently, i think its unfair that colleges like yours manage to stay in the top tier of the table by winning such mediocre moots. Winning this moot does not reflect the excellent mooting standards. So please all u people should get out of that bubble of yours and after u are done doing that even think of competing with NLSIU, NALSAR and NUJS. Till then keep shut and learn law first.
kudos 12 Mar 2012, 19:34
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Couldn't agree more with Duh.
indian 17 Mar 2012, 13:06
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dear duh!

NUJS is poor, NALSAR all pomp and show like NLU-D. only NLSIU and NLU-J seems to have substance.
mooting fever 12 Mar 2012, 16:02
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i think the discussion should be limited to the point that whether this Amity Moot deserves at all to be in tier 4... With such less participation it should be relegated to tier 5 or should be chucked out totally from MPL...

Look at the lame response of the convenor.. he thinks the problem was so tuff that only 14 teams registered.. funny... VIS vienna sets probably the tuffest problem and gets a participation of 300 teams

its because of the poor reputation and quality of Amity moot that students refrain from going there...
indian 17 Mar 2012, 13:07
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i agree with the discussion shd be ltd to amity moot tier 4 or 5?
Dhavan 12 Mar 2012, 17:04
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SOEL Moot ?
amity 12 Mar 2012, 19:10
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Nujs herbert smith had only 16 teams participating this time. Doesn't mean it isn't a good quality moot. All the teams at the amity moot were your usual suspects. In fact, calling less but quality colleges for a moot is sensible. With less teams, it is possible to get quality judges in every courtroom. In moots like luthra and mm singhvi, with more than 50 teams participating, it is virtually impossible to get quality judges across the board (of course you can't compare it to vienna).
The amity moot should be retained in tier 4. It's been there for a while, and no one's complained about the judging. About the only good consti moot in the country, with supreme court senior counsel judging. Don't disturb its place in the MPL.
nujs moot 13 Mar 2012, 04:31
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NUJS Moot was a limited participation moot. Only 20 colleges were invited. To rest of them, no invitation was sent. 16 out of 20 confirmed their participation.
Supporter of Amity 13 Mar 2012, 11:30
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Supreme Court Judges, to be precise.
mooting fever 13 Mar 2012, 12:01
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do not even try to compare ur moot with herbert smith @amity
mooting fever 13 Mar 2012, 12:05
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also it wasnt the case with amity moot that they called less number of teams or the participation was on the basis of invitation
@mooting fever 13 Mar 2012, 15:24
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Yes, that was the case. Limited no. of teams were invited this year, as compared to last year when there were more than 35 teams. It was more sensible to have less but better teams. It's a good, transparent moot. Don't downgrade it just because it's organised by a non-NLU
arthur 13 Mar 2012, 14:10
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obsessed with the tag ? the students of the so-called top brass never give spweing shit and playing down the achievements of the others..
arthur 13 Mar 2012, 14:13
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and, by the way, when ur college manages to do well in the all the other international moots ? why in the world is their performance so dismal in the national moots ?

Nlu j's been around for quite time..do u remember it's performaces at jessup, vienna and the icc moot.

Nls won the jessup in 1999, meaning, 10 years post-inception..would this mean nls did not have excellent mooting standards till then ?
nlu-j. 13 Mar 2012, 16:35
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@duh.
get your facts straight before you say whatever you want.
we got a special mention in vis last year and do well in stetson and hague all the time.
you talk as if winning an international moot is the only criteria for judging a college's mooting standards. we've gotten best memo in HS for two years in a row too. which goes to show that the average mooter in our college is also pretty good. nobodys comparing nluj to nls or nalsar or nujs. i just think its absurd that someone should think that we plot and go to these 'low' moots to win them. the fact that we participate in all these moots just goes to show that there is no arrogance attached to learning and that the average student is more enthusiastic about it than any other law school that either send loser teams to national moots or dont send them at all.
check the oxford bcl admissions for this year,if you want to remove our national law school tag. we'll talk after that.
indian 17 Mar 2012, 13:11
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how true...thats why i like nlu-j students, humble, disciplined and dedicated.
Amity 13 Mar 2012, 19:02
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"we'll talk after that."


whats your contact number?
nluj 14 Mar 2012, 16:00
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@amity : your sense of humor is really not helping your case.
mooting fever 17 Mar 2012, 06:17
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MPL,

why no update on BCI delhi and ELSA WTO Moot- Asian Rounds!!!