Exclusive: Legally India research has revealed that the top five Indian mooting colleges participate in a roughly similar number of moots while ILS Pune participates in up to a mammoth 70 moots per year, while almost half of NLU Delhi students are mooters and NUJS Kolkata has the fiercest internal competition for mooting places. Plus, a preview of MPL 3 colleges below – promotions and demotions: feedback required.

India Today magazine has ranked Nalsar Hyderabad as the best law school in the country followed by NLSIU Bangalore in second spot, with the magazine citing the college’s two consecutive wins in Legally India’s Mooting Premier League (MPL) as a factor.

Nalsar Hyderabad convincingly bagged the Mooting Premier League trophy for the second consecutive season. It scored a total of 304 points and won this year’s League, sponsored by Allen & Overy, with an astonishing margin of 105 points.

Breaking exclusive: NLU Delhi will battle National University of Singapore (NUS) in the finals of the prestigious Asia Pacific rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot, the decisive moot in the second edition of the Mooting Premier League sponsored by Allen & Overy, which saw a three Indian teams in the Jakarta-based semi-finals.

We bring you the near-final analyis of the MPL Season 2, sponsored by Allen & Overy, which is all set to conclude with just one moot remaining - Manfred Lachs in tier 2. This riveting season included 54 moots as against 36 moots in Season One.

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.

NLS Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad, NUJS Kolkata and NLU Jodhpur were the four Indian teams out of more than 250 that qualified for the knock-out rounds of sixty-four at the Vis Vienna Moot.

Nalsar Hyderabad rocks runner-up, best speaker and best defence counsel at International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Competition The Hague with NLSIU winning best memo.

Nalsar Hyderabad is set to compete with Australian and Canadian law schools in the ICC Trial Competition in The Hague, with a live webcast of the finals at 17:30 India time today (15 April).

Jindal enters mooting fray as Indian teams fail to break at Vis Hong Kong Moot although NUJS and NLSIU managed to pick up honourable mentions. Plus the NFCG-Nalsar Moot…

HNLU Raipur finished runners up at the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot and jumped from the eleventh position to the fifth position in the MPL 2 standings sponsored by Allen & Overy. Meanwhile Symbiosis, Pune won its first moot this season at the GH Raisoni Moot over its neighbouring college.

Nalsar Hyderabad star mooter and Jessup qualifier Aditya Singh discusses Nalsar’s pressure in this year’s Mooting Premier League (MPL) sponsored by Allen & Overy to defend its title, plus the internal competition that has made Nalsar mooting what it is today.

MPL Live is back with its live blog for the second consecutive Sunday of super mooting.

International magic circle law firm Allen & Overy has endowed the second season of the Mooting Premier League (MPL) with a generous sponsorship of Rs 1.2 lakh (£1,600) that will be shared between the best mooting colleges at the end of the season.

NUJS Kolkata Jessup North-round winner Deepak Raju and his team will be representing India at the White & Case world finals at Washington D.C. in March. He spoke to MPL Live about his mooting journey, preparations for his final moot, the culture and religion of mooting prevailing in NUJS, young mooters and the success mantra.

From 6pm today (Sunday, 13 February) Team MPL will be live blogging from the DM Harish final at GLC Mumbai between GNLU Gandhinagar and RGNUL Patiala, which defeated University of Melbourne and NLU Delhi respectively in today’s semi-finals. Refresh this blog post periodically, we will be updating with the best arguments, judges’ grillings and more.

Plus, three other top moots conclude on today’s Mooting Super Sunday – we’ll update it as it happens and how it’ll affect the rankings.

Nalsar Hyderabad added 15 points to its Mooting Premier League (MPL) kitty after defeating NUJS Kolkata at the finals of the KLA Moot but remains one point behind score leader NUJS at 92 points.

Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad earned 20 points in the Mooting Premier League after a thumping win against NLSIU Bangalore in an exciting finish to the first Bar Council of India International Law Moot Court Competition.

Last year’s champion Nalsar is now four MPL points behind NUJS Kolkata, which was defeated by Nalsar in the semifinals.

NUJS Kolkata reached the semifinals and won the best speaker award as the Indian representative at the Commonwealth Moot to pull in 12 crucial points from the Tier 4 National Challenger moot, overtaking NLU Delhi at the top of the MPL 2 standings by four points.

Readers and mooters went into tailspin last week over a perceived problem in the quality of judging at Jessup national rounds, posting over 80 comments on this apparently perennial issue. Legally India investigates.