NLU-Jodhpur returns strongest from Vis Vienna Moot; India solid but unspectacular

Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2
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Nalsar Hyderabad, NLSIU Bangalore, NLU Jodhpur, NUJS Kolkata put on a strong Indian performance at the top Vis Vienna moot, advancing to the knock-out rounds and gathering a raft of honourable mentions.

[[Nalsar Hyderabad]], [[NLSIU Bangalore]], [[NUJS Kolkata]] and [[NLU Jodhpur]] put on a strong Indian performance at the top [[Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna|Vis Vienna moot]] advancing to the knock-out rounds and gathering a raft of honourable mentions.

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Nalsar, NUJS and NLSIU finished as octa-finalists in the Tier 1 moot and NLU Jodhpur went out in the round of the last 32. While Jodhpur won two honorable mentions for the NLSIU and Nalsar were awarded one honorable mention each in the same category.

NLU Jodhpur ended up taking home the most points from Vienna with speakers Aritra Roy and Meghana Sharafudeen helping to win 20 points from honorable mentions in the Martin Domke award for the best individual oralists, and gaining 10 points for finishing in the round of 32.

NLU Jodhpur has now overtaken [[ILS Pune]] (94 points) and is now placed fifth in the [[MPL Standings]] on 116.5 points, within the cash prize-winning ranks, sponsored by Allen & Overy.

Nalsar Hyderabad and NLSIU Bangalore earned 25 points each after finishing as octa finalists and winning one honorable mention each. Surya Kiran Banerjee from NLSIU and Poorvi Satija from Nalsar were cited for the Martin Domke award.

The outcome of the moot has virtually sealed the title race for the second season of the MPL sponsored by Allen & Overy, as Nalsar now leads the [[MPL Standings]] on 279 points.

Nalsar now enjoys an unassailable 85-point lead over second-placed NUJS Kolkata, which is currently on 194 points. However, NLS Bangalore is just three points behind in third position, with 191 points, ahead of NLU Delhi in fourth position with 162 points.

The outcome of the Tier 1 [[Manfred Lachs Space Moot]] in June will likely decide the rankings in the tight runner-up field.

Allen & Overy is the sponsor of the MPL 2 and is hosting an international finance and corporate course at Nalsar Hyderabad between 4 and 8 July.

[[Mooting Premier League 2 season standings]]

PosLaw schoolPtsDetails
1Nalsar Hyderabad279[Vis Vienna] (Octa-finalists, One Hon\‘ble Mention for Speaker); ICC Trial (Runners-up, Best Speaker Overall, Best Defence Counsel, Best Victims\’ Representative Team); NLS Arbitration (Semi-finalist); Jessup International Rounds (10th Best Memorandum, 2nd Best Applicant\‘s Memorandum); Stetson World Rounds (8th best oralist); ISRO Manfred Lachs (Runners-up, Best Speaker); Leiden-Sarin (Runners-up); Amity (Semi-finalist, Best Memorandum); SP Sathe (Winner, best speaker); NLU-J Antitrust (Winner, best memorandum, best speaker); GIMC (Runners up); KLA Moot (Winners); BCI Moot (Winners);Jessup South (Runners up);NLIU-Juris Corp (Best speaker); Stetson South India (Winner), Nani Palkhiwala (Winners), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Semifinalist); Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Seminfinalist)
2NUJS Kolkata194[Vis Vienna] (Octa-finalists); Vis-HK (Honourable Mention for Best Respondent\‘s Memorandum); Jessup International Rounds (Quarter-finalist, 16th Best Memorandum, 29th Best Speaker, 36th Best Speaker); Fiat Justitia (Winners, best memorandum); [NLU-D Corp Law] (Runners up); NLU-J Antitrust (Semi finalist); KLA Moot (Best Speaker, Runners up);BCI Moot (Semifinalist); Commonwealth International Rounds (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); Jessup North (Runners-up, Best Memorandum); Oxford-Media India Round (Winner); Commonwealth India Rounds (Winners; Best Memo); Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Best Memo, Best Speaker, Semi-finalist)
3NLSIU Bangalore191[Vis Vienna] (Octa-finalists, One Hon\‘ble Mention for Speaker); ICC Trial (Best Memorandum, Best Defense Representatives Team ); [Vis-HK] (Honourable Mention for Best Respondent\‘s Memorandum); [Nalsar-NFCG] (Winner, best memorandum); Oxford Media Law (Semi finalist, Best speaker); ISRO Manfred Lachs (Winner); Herbert Smith (Semifinalist);GIMC (Semifinalist); DM Harish (Best Researcher);BCI Moot (Runners up);Jessup South (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); KK Luthra (Semi finalist); Oxford-Media India Round (Runners up, Best speaker); Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Nani Palkhiwala (Best Speaker), Rizvi Moot (Winners)
4NLU Delhi162NLS Arbitration (Best Memorandum); Jessup International Rounds (Octa-finalist, Overall Best Applicant Award, 9th Best Speaker, 17th Best Speaker); Leiden-Sarin (Best speaker); Herbert Smith (Runners up, Best Speaker); Fiat Justitia (Runners up); DM Harish (Semifinalist);KLA Moot (Semifinalist);Jessup North (Winner, Best Speaker); KK Luthra (Runners up); HNLU Moot (Winner, Best Speaker, Best Researcher) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Semi finalist) Henry Dunant (Runners up)
5NLU Jodhpur116.5[Vis Vienna] (Top 32, Two Hon\‘ble Mentions for Speaker); ELSA-WTO Asia Rounds (Best Memorandum Overall, Best Memorandum Complainant); Amity (Runners up, Best Researcher); Herbert Smith (Best Memo, Semifinalist);Fiat Justitia (Super six); Surana IT (Runners up); Surana Corp (Winners); GIMC (Semifinalist);Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist, Best memorandum); NLIU-Juris Corp (Runners up); Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney (The Sarah Derrington Encouragement Award)*
6ILS Pune94Jessup International Rounds (30th Best Speaker, 56th Best Speaker); Amity (Best Speaker); Raisoni (Runners up); Surana IT (Semi finalist); Surana Corp (Best Memorandum, Semifinalist); Jessup South (Winners, Best Memorandum);Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Winners)
7HNLU Raipur84Nalsar-NFCG (Runners-up, best speaker); Red Cross Moot (Runners up); ULC Moot (Best Memorandum, Best Researcher);BCI Moot (Best Female Speaker);Oxford-Media India Round (Semi finalist); NLIU-Juris Corp (Winner); Henry Dunant (Winners)
8NLIU Bhopal83Nalsar-NFCG (Semi-finalist); NLS Arbitration (Runners-up); Herbert Smith (Winners);ULC Moot (Best Speaker, Semifinalist); Stetson 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)
9GNLU Gandhinagar80Nalsar-NFCG (Semi-finalist); NLS Arbitration (Semi-finalist, best speaker); Pro bono Moot (Semi finalist); Raisoni (Semi finalists, Best Memo); DM Harish (Winners); BCI Moot (Best Memorandum, Best Male Speaker);ICC Mediation (Special Award for the Team Which Best Acknowledged Cultural Differences);Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists); John Marshall (Winner, Ambassador Round), Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist)
10RGNUL Patiala77.5Pro bono Moot (Best Researcher); SP Sathe (Runners-up); NLU-D Corp Law (Winners, best memorandum (joint), best researcher); Surana IT (Semi finalist); DM Harish (Runners up);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)
11NUALS Kochi68Stetson World Rounds (3rd best memo, 10th best oralist);Surana IT (Winners); Surana Corp (Best Speaker); Stetson 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)
12RMNLU Lucknow49ISRO Manfred Lachs (Semi-finalist); SP Sathe (Semi-finalist, best memorandum); Surana IT (Best Memorandum); NLU-D Corp Law (Semi finalist); Surana Corp (Runners up); GIMC (Best Memorandum);Henry Dunant (Best Researcher)
13Government Law College, Mumbai45.5NLU-D Corp Law (Best speaker); Fiat Justitia (Super six, best speaker); NLU-J Antitrust (Semi finalist); DM Harish (Best Memorandum);KLA Moot (Best Memorandum);Jessup South (Semifinalist);Nani Palkhiwala (Best Memo)
14SOEL Chennai41Surana IT (Best speaker); NLU-D Corp Law (Semi finalist); Commonwealth India Rounds (Runners up, Best Speaker); Surana Int\‘l Minority (Winners), Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Runners up, Best Speaker)
15Army Institute of Law, Mohali35Pro bono Moot (Semi finalist, Best Memo); KLA Moot (Semifinalist);Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Int\‘l Minority(Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (runner-up, best memo)
16UILS Chandigarh33ULC Moot (Winners); Stetson North (Runners up); Nani Palkhiwala (Runners Up), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Best Memo)
17Campus Law Centre Delhi29.5SP Sathe (Semi-finalist); Fiat Justitia (Super six); NLU-J Antitrust (Runners-up); HNLU Moot (Runners up, Best Memorandum) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Winner)
18Amity Law School22ISRO Manfred Lachs (Semi-finalist); Amity (Semi-finalist); Jessup North (Semi-finalist); Stetson North (Best memorandum); Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists)
19University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University, Delhi20Stetson North (Winner)
19Symbiosis, Pune20Pro bono Moot (Runners up); Raisoni (Winners); NLU-J Antitrust (Best researcher)
21Jindal Global Law School15NLS Arbitration (Winner)
21Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad15Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Speaker)
21Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University15FDI Moot (Semi-finalist; 2 Honourable Mentions); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist), Rizvi Moot (semifinalist)
21Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Government Law College Chennai15Amity (Winner)
25CNLU Patna13Jessup North (Semi-finalist); NLIU-Juris Corp (Semi finalist, Best Memorandum)
26M.S.Ramaiah College of Law10Pro bono Moot (Winners)
26Bishop Cottons Women\‘s Christian Law School, Bangalore10Stetson South India (Best Speaker)
28Baroda School of Legal Studies8Raisoni (Semi finalists, Best Speaker)
29Satara University5Pro bono Moot (Best Speaker)
29Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad5BCI Moot (Semifinalist);
29Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur5Surana Int\‘l Minority (Best Speaker)
29CMR Law College, Bangalore5ULC Moot (Runners up);
33School of Law, Christ University4Surana Corp (Semifinalist);
34CUSAT Kochi3Surana Int\‘l Minority(Semifinalist)
34Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur 3HNLU Moot (Semi finalist)
34New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune3Surana Trial Advocacy South (Semifinalist)
34Government Law College, Ernakulam3ULC Moot (Semifinalist);
38NLU Orissa2.5NLU-D Corp Law (Best memorandum (joint))
39V.M. Salgaocar Law College, Panjim1.5Fiat Justitia (Super six)

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

Pacman 8 May 2011, 20:00
+2 -0
Love the size of NALSAR's achievement list!
DaMan 8 May 2011, 20:04
+1 -0
In it's worst ever mooting year, NLS is still only three points of third. The Sun has not set just yet.
Congrats NALSAR. 8 May 2011, 22:09
+3 -0
[quote name="DaMan"]In it's worst ever mooting year, NLS is still only three points of third. The Sun has not set just yet.[/quote]
I concur, especially considering the fact that only 40 people mooted, we seem to have overachieved :)
Excuses count for nothing though. And take nothing away from NALSAR. Great job guys :)
@Congrats 9 May 2011, 05:13
+1 -1
I think all law schools have round about that number mooting.
But yes as you said 'excuses count for nothing'. Congratulations NLS and obviously Nalsar.
assvx 12 May 2011, 07:16
+1 -0
Now this cant be true, if 40 people had participated, this means that NALSAR had participated in some 13 moot court competitions which is not true. There were 13 or more competitions in February alone.

If above statement is true, then I wander out of 400 students, just 40 took part in all moot court competitions.


What were others doing?
gayle 9 May 2011, 08:19
+0 -0
NUJS squandered a good lead. poor strategy is to blame. certain egomaniacs think they know everything and won't listen to others.
KK 9 May 2011, 12:45
+4 -0
I know. Typical NUJS.
NK 10 May 2011, 11:24
+0 -0
[KK]!!!

Get back to work...
Kapde kaun dhoega ?

Congrats NALSAR !!!!

Victors as usual...
KK, NK all copyright. 12 May 2011, 08:57
+0 -0
Go away. Work. Do maritime law.
abcdefgh 10 May 2011, 11:24
+0 -0
NUJS is not participating in ManLachs to the best of my knowledge ...so NLS has a good chance.
vcxb 10 May 2011, 12:00
+0 -0
It is participating!
Doesnt matter 11 May 2011, 08:48
+12 -1
The fact that even this post has somehow ended up as a tussle between Nls & Nalsar.. not to forget nujs trying its level best to butt in.. please allow me to give some credit to Nlu-J.

Congratulations Meghana.. you rock!
and Aritra.
IAS 12 May 2011, 13:32
+8 -1
Leave all this, Congrats SOEL for producing the UPSC topper :)
212 13 May 2011, 05:55
+0 -0
Very commendable, indeed. Congrats to Ms. Divyadarshini.

[quote name="IAS"]Leave all this, Congrats SOEL for producing the UPSC topper :)[/quote]
NLU-J all the way! 14 May 2011, 03:01
+4 -0
Go Jodhpur!
Congrats NLU 14 May 2011, 13:52
+5 -0
Way to go Meghana! You're awesome!:D
Well done Aritra! :)
And NLU is awesome!