RMLNLU Lucknow charged ahead to victory on 2 December as it defeated NLU Delhi in the finals of the North India Rounds of the 17th Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.
NLU D finished in the runner-up spot and HNLU’s team won the award for the best memorial in this year’s competition, which was held at NLIU Bhopal and saw 16 teams from Northern India participating. NLIU live-blogged the event on Legally India.
RMLNLU’s team consisted of Roli Sharma, Smriti Punnoose and researcher Shradha Rakhecha and they will be joining runners up NLU D, CNLU Patna and current MPL 4 topper NLSIU at the Stetson international rounds that will be held from 21 to 23 March 2013 in Tampa, Florida, USA.
An elated Sharma said on the phone: “The experience was simply amazing! NLIU did a very good job organizing the north rounds. The competition was also very challenging, the teams from HNLU and NLU D were particularly good.”
When asked about their team’s preparations for the world rounds next year, Punoose said: “We didn’t know we would be going till today but looking at the competition this time, we have decided to go beyond our research for the memorial and brush up our basics on International Environmental Law as we will be grilled by the Judges there way more than here”
With this Tier 3 victory RMLNLU has scored 20 points, doubling its previous total to finish with 40 points at 5th place in the Mooting Premier League-4 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.
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NLU D also bagged 20 points with its team consisting of Vandana Venkatesh, Kritika Palode and Jishnu Sanyal finishing runners-up. Venkatesh also won best student advocate which carries equivalent MPL 4 points as the best speaker category.
Venkatesh, on being asked about how the competition was, said: “The experience was very good and there was a lot of work put into this, I’m glad we were able to qualify for the World Rounds.” She commended RMLNLU for its win but said that she was a bit disappointed with the quality of the judges. “Overall the judging was good but in my personal opinion it could have been better in the finals where we had judges from the MP High Court.”
NLU Delhi has been steadily building its lead over HNLU and NUJS Kolkata in the MPL 4 table. With this result its total is now 81, but a large gap of 72 points still remains to the current topper NLSIU Bangalore.
HNLU Raipur added 10 points to its tally by bagging the best memorial award to just stay in third place just ahead of NUJS. Semi finalists Amity Law School Delhi and Nirma University have added 5 points each to their respective tallies.
Update: Points have been updated again for the Surana Trial North East moot, which disappeared from the MPL table due to an administrative error. Surana North-East was won by HNLU Raipur’s Subhro Sengupta, Anubhuti Mishra, Smita Chandra and Garima Mitra. Sengupta also won the best memorial prize, while NUJS Kolkata was runner-up. Nerim Law College Guwahati and NEF Law College were semi-finalists, while Lucknow University’s Faculty of Law scored the award for best memorandum.
More updates to follow from Team MPL shortly.
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]] | 100 | 40 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 153 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis); [Surana Trial Adv - South] (gold); [Manfred Lachs Space Moot World Rounds] (gold, best memo, best orator);[Stetson South India](gold);[Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers](Silver, Best orator) | |||||
| 2 | [[NLU Delhi]] | 70 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 81 | [HMMCC (Semis)][Henry Dunant] (gold); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (organiser); [NLIU Juris Corp] (Semis); [Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers](Gold, best memo);[Commonwealth Moot National Rounds](semis); [Stetson North Rounds] (Runners Up) (Best Orator) ] | |||||
| 3 | [[HNLU Raipur]] | 10 | 8 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 49 | Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher); [Pro Bono] (Runner’s Up, Best speaker, Best researcher, Best memorial) [Rizvi Moot] (silver) [Justice Hidayatullah Moot] (organizer) [Stetson North Rounds] (Best Memorial); Surana Trial North East (winner, best orator) | ||||
| 4 | [[NUJS Kolkata]] | 8 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 48 | [HMMCC (Best team)(Best speaker)] [Nani Palkhivala (runners up)][BR Sawhney (Best peaker)][SLCU Moot (Gold, Best speaker)]; Surana Trial North East: runner-up | |||||||
| 5 | [[RMLNLU Lucknow]] | 20 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 40 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (gold, best researcher); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (best memo);[Stetson North Rounds] (winners) | ||||||||
| 5 | [[NLU Jodhpur]] | 15 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 40 | [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] (Winners) (Best Speaker)] | |||||
| 6 | [[Jindal Global Law School]] | 20 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 38 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Best Memorial)][Henry Dunant] (best researcher, semis); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (gold); [Oxford Media Law National Qualifiers](Semis) | ||||||
| 7 | [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] | 8 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 31 | [HMMCC (Runners up)] [Rizvi Moot] (Best team); [B.R Sawhney Moot] (organisers); [NLIU Juris Corp] (Best Speaker);[FDI Moot (Best Memorial)];[Commonwealth Moot National Rounds] (Best Memo); | |||||
| 8 | [[ILS Pune]] | 5 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 | [HMMCC] (Best researcher); [SLCU Moot] (silver); [NLIU Juris Corp] (gold); [Stetson South India](Semis) | |||||
| 9 | [[Faculty of Law, Jamia Milia Islamia University]] | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | [Nani Palkhivala (Best speaker)][Henry Dunant (Best memo)[[Surana Trial adv-North (Silver, bet speaker)] | ||||||
| 10 | [[GNLU Gandhinagar]] | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 23 | [Nani Palkhivala] (best team); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (Best team);[FDI Moot] (Honourable Mention); | ||||||||
| 11 | [[RGNUL Patiala]] | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 22 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Semis); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (semis); B. R Sawhney Moot (runners up); [NLIU Juris Corp] (silver); | ||||||||
| 12 | [[GLC Mumbai]] | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | Henry Dunant (Best speaker) | ||||||||
| 13 | [[NUALS Kochi]] | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (silver); [Stetson South] (Best memo) | ||||||||
| 13 | [[ULC Bangalore]] | 15 | 1 | 1 | 15 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (best memo);[Pro-bono Enviro Moot (Winners) | |||||||||
| 15 | [[NLIU Bhopal]] | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | [HMMCC (Semis)(Best memorial)] [Nani Palkhivala (semis)]; [NLIU Juris Corp] (Organizers); | |||||||
| 16 | [[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad|Nirma University]] | 10 | 3 | 2 | 13 | [Henry Dunant] (semis); [Pro Bono] Semis;[Stetson North Rounds] (semis) | |||||||||
| 16 | [[NLU Orissa]] | 8 | 5 | 2 | 13 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Best Memorial); [NLIU Juris Corp] (Best Memorial); | |||||||||
| 16 | [[Amity Law School Noida]] | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis, best speaker, best memorial); | ||||||||
| 19 | [[CNLU Patna]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [Stetson South] (Silver) | ||||||||||
| 19 | [[KLA, Trivandrum]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [Stetson South] (Best orator) | ||||||||||
| 19 | [[Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [Henry Dunant] (Best speaker); | ||||||||||
| 19 | [[KIIT School of Law]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Winners) ; | ||||||||||
| [[Amity Law School,Delhi]] | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | [Commonwealth Moot] (semis) [Stetson North Rounds] (semis) | ||||||||||
| [[Symbiosis, Pune]] | 8 | 1 | 8 | [NLIU Juris Corp] Best Researcher | |||||||||||
| [[CUSAT Kochi|School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi]] | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best memo, semis); | ||||||||||
| [[SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law]] | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [SLCU Moot] (best memo, semis); | ||||||||||
| [[School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur]] | 6 | 2 | 6 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (semis); [Pro Bono] (Semis) | |||||||||||
| [[V.M. Salgaoncar, Goa]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Stetson South] (Semis) | |||||||||||
| [[A K K New Law Academy, Pune]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Commonwealth Moot National Rounds] (Runner’s Up) | |||||||||||
| [[New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best speaker); | |||||||||||
| Lucknow University Faculty of Law | [Surana Trial Adv - North East: memo | ||||||||||||||
| [[Army Institute of Law, Mohali]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [Surana Trial Adv - North] (semis); | |||||||||||
| [[Faculty of Law, IFHE Hyderabad]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [SLCU Moot] (semis); | |||||||||||
| [[Campus Law Centre. Delhi]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [B.R Sawhnhey Moot] (semis); | |||||||||||
| Nerim Law College, Guwahati | 3 | 1 | 3 | Surana Trial North East: Semis | |||||||||||
| NEF Law College | 3 | 1 | 3 | Surana Trial North East: Semis | |||||||||||
| [[Christ Law College Bangalore|School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore]] | 1 | 1 | 1 | [SLCU Moot] (organiser); | |||||||||||
| Faculty of Law, MITS University,Lakhmangarh, Rajasthan (Mody Institute of Technology and Science) | 1 | 1 | 1 | [Commonwealth Moot National Rounds] (Organisers) | |||||||||||
| [[SOEL Chennai]] | 1 | 1 | 1 | Pro Bono (organisers) | |||||||||||
| [[Rizvi Law College]] | 1 | 1 | 1 | Rizvi Moot (organisers) |
For more information please refer to the [[MPL 4 rulebook]].
Comments
the Surana minority moot did not happen this year at AKK new law academy, Pune but Surana international tort law moot court happened on 8th Dec, will you be considering this is MPL4 ?
Too little prestige, too easy to qualify and flawed north-south breakup makes this a very poor moot overall. Just because the finals are in florida does not enhance the value.
Too little prestige, too easy to qualify and flawed north-south breakup makes this a very poor moot overall. Just because the finals are in florida does not enhance the value.[/quote]
...and you say this what competence? Because you have won this 'very poor moot'? Please, go ahead, dazzle us with your qualifications.
Too little prestige, too easy to qualify and flawed north-south breakup makes this a very poor moot overall. Just because the finals are in florida does not enhance the value.[/quote]
...and you say this what competence? Because you have won this 'very poor moot'? Please, go ahead, dazzle us with your qualifications.[/quote]
I spent five yrs at law school, more than enough time to understand the various moots that are out there. Knew people who passed up stetson for BCI, for anand, for manfred, hell for just about anything. I trust you're not going to now ask if I won stetson.
Too little prestige, too easy to qualify and flawed north-south breakup makes this a very poor moot overall. Just because the finals are in florida does not enhance the value.[/quote]
...and you say this what competence? Because you have won this 'very poor moot'? Please, go ahead, dazzle us with your qualifications.[/quote]
I spent five yrs at law school, more than enough time to understand the various moots that are out there. Knew people who passed up stetson for BCI, for anand, for manfred, hell for just about anything. I trust you're not going to now ask if I won stetson.[/quote]
Ah sure, definitely, spending five years at law school IS enough to hold a ridiculous opinion. Thanks for the clarification, your opinion does seem justified now!
Too little prestige, too easy to qualify and flawed north-south breakup makes this a very poor moot overall. Just because the finals are in florida does not enhance the value.[/quote]
...and you say this what competence? Because you have won this 'very poor moot'? Please, go ahead, dazzle us with your qualifications.[/quote]
I spent five yrs at law school, more than enough time to understand the various moots that are out there. Knew people who passed up stetson for BCI, for anand, for manfred, hell for just about anything. I trust you're not going to now ask if I won stetson.[/quote]
Ah sure, definitely, spending five years at law school IS enough to hold a ridiculous opinion. Thanks for the clarification, your opinion does seem justified now![/quote]
You don't give up, do you? What 'qualification' are you looking for? An SJD magna-cum-laude from Harvard? Or a BCL MA (Cantab)? Silk ? How about a Knight Commander of Bath while you're at it?? Too phoren? Ok ok Padma Bhushan? Lol
No, the moot deserves a particular status, and Stetson deserves it, purely for the level of competition. Roli was best speaker Manlachs and lost to the world rounds winner in the semis with a very narrow margin!! :|
And Smriti did better than Roli throughout! So that shows how good the competition is.
Very good teams have gone! NLUJ was coached by last year winners and did not even make semis. Is that not enough proof of the level of competition involved?
16 teams, Jessup last year had 18! Its size-able. And not a walkover by any stretch!
Lets commend the teams here and not get into a fight cause your college did not make it. :)
Yeah MP High court judges are really incompetent when it comes to judging Moot courts as yous see the thing is as they judge these cases of national importance what knowledge they would have of International Environmental Law .
Of course had they been competent you would have won the moot! Right?
Are we not getting slightly presumptuous here?
They could just be bad judges in general. Just saying. After all, MP High Court and International Law. You can do the math I trust.
the Surana minority moot did not happen this year at AKK new law academy, Pune but Surana international tort law moot court happened on 8th Dec, will you be considering this is MPL4 ?[/quote]
Viraj.. is it because u won the, Tort moot u wanna add it???
May you have an early birthday this year and thank god you guys got the scores right at last.
From Raipur,
With Love
Colleges like NLS, NALSAR, RML etc all have challenging processes for Stetson.
Infact the CNLU team that was RUNNERS-UP this year won BCI LAST YEAR.
And teams are supposed to get better with experience.
So you see, very challenging moot with very challenging teams come for Stetson. How is it a bogus moot with bogus teams?
RML's Roli was Manlachs best speaker. Manfred Lachs. And she lost semis with narrow margin to nls who won world rounds. and that was their closest round. And went for oxford media (tier 3 again) 2 years back.
So the teams that come are college's topseeded teams.
WAKE UP! Aritra Roy went for Jessup and Stetson last year, and won best speaker in Jessup!
If this moot does not deserve to be here in Tier 3, which moot does? Look logically, this is argument based on factuals.
These are not bogus teams. these are top seeded teams.
Colleges like NLS, NALSAR, RML etc all have challenging processes for Stetson.
Infact the CNLU team that was RUNNERS-UP this year won BCI LAST YEAR.
And teams are supposed to get better with experience.
So you see, very challenging moot with very challenging teams come for Stetson. How is it a bogus moot with bogus teams?
RML's Roli was Manlachs best speaker. Manfred Lachs. And she lost semis with narrow margin to nls who won world rounds. and that was their closest round. And went for oxford media (tier 3 again) 2 years back.
So the teams that come are college's topseeded teams.
WAKE UP! Aritra Roy went for Jessup and Stetson last year, and won best speaker in Jessup!
If this moot does not deserve to be here in Tier 3, which moot does? Look logically, this is argument based on factuals.
These are not bogus teams. these are top seeded teams.[/quote]
You have conveniently named two of the inferior colleges and by default it not challenging, harsh as that may sound. On the other hand at nls stetson is kept aside as an incentive for weak times to do well in the moots to which they go to. If they do they get to choose stetson. You can go through the list of participants for stetson from NLS, NALSAR and NUJS for the last three years and see for yourself what was their college rank and it proves what I said earlier. But don't quote RML or CNLU as examples.
Thats not really "reservation" on Bogus moot no?
On Sourav going for Leiden after oxford price, the point is not him going there, but if he finds Leiden hard enough to do well in, then thats a probelm cause it shows good competition in Leiden.
Point is BCI winner did not win Stetson. Its not about BCI team picking it.
Good teams go to Stetson, good team find it hard to do well.