Moot Court is an extracurricular activity at many law schools in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually to include drafting briefs and participating in oral argument. The basic structure of a moot court competition roughly parallels what would happen in actual appellate practice. Mooting is one of the prime academic exercises promoted in GNLU. It is the policy of the University to encourage its students to participate in as many national and international moot court competitions as possible.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF GNLU MOOTING TEAMS

INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITIONS:

• Henry Dunant Moot Court Competition, Indian Rounds 2006. Represented by: Mayuri Tiwari, A. Harsha Vardhan, Bharat Pandey. Ranked Third. Won the Best memorial and the Best researcher.

• Stetson International Moot Court Competition, North Indian Rounds, 2006. Represented by: Abhinav Maker, Sagnik Sinha and Sarthak Guru. Won the National Rounds held in September and qualified for the final rounds conducted in Florida during November, 2006 with Sagnik Sinha being adjudged the 7th best world speaker.

• ELSA W.T.O Moot Court Competition Asia Regional Round, 2007 – Represented by: Vipul Jain, Hemangini Dadwal, Karan Sachdev, Bhargav Mansatta. Runners up at the Asian Regional Round at Taiwan and represented GNLU to final rounds in Geneva.

• William C. Vis Moot Court Competition, 2007 –Represented by: Raghavendra Bajaj, Samar Singh Kachhawah, Sajni Patel, Alphus Rocky. Sajni Patel received the honoree mention for the Best Mooter and the team received the honoree mention for the Best Memorial for the Respondents in Honk Kong.

• Stetson International Moot Court Competition, North Indian Rounds, 2007- Represented by: Anupam Pareekh, Kushal Sinha, Annapurna Sreehari, Rajul Bohra & Saurabh Sharma. Runners up & Qualified for the Stetson World Rounds. The GNLU team also won Best Memorial & Spirit of Surana Award

• Second Law Asia International Moot Court Competition, National Rounds 2007: National Rounds held at Patiala, Punjab, Represented by: Annapurna S., Nisarg Desai and Reena Chaudhary. Annapurna S. won the Second Best Oralist award.

• International Infrastructure & Construction Law Arbitration Moot (IICLAM)-2007

• Represented by: Asim Malik, Shubhang Setlur & Rumana Gauran, Winners &. GNLU was awarded the Best International Team Award, while Asim Malik got the best speaker award on the final day. Asim Malik was also awarded a scholarship to pursue L.L.M in National University of Singapore.

• Stetson International Moot Court Competition, North Indian Rounds,, 2008: Represented by: Dharmendra, Arijit, Siddharth Tatiya, Juhi Bansal & Abhilasha Singh. The team won the best memorial award. Arijit won the 2nd best speaker while Dharmendra won the 4th best speaker.

• Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2008, North India Rounds- 

• The GNLU team comprising Mayuri Tiwari, Jaya Kathju, Sarthak Guru, Aditi Gulati and Shartul Vats won the 2nd best memorial award in the North Zone qualifying rounds held in the I.P University, Delhi.

• Willem C. Vis Hong Kong Moot Court Competition 2008: Represented by: Aditi Gulati, Shamik Bhatt, Vedika Mittal, Pearl Kumar, Sanjay Khan & Niharika. GNLU team was eight finalist for best team for claimant. It also bagged honorable mention for Claimant’s memorandum and Honorable mention to one speaker.

• Henry Dunant International Moot Court Competition, 2008: Represented by: Rohini Sen, Debadutta Dobe & Rishav Banerjee. The Team won the Indian and the South Asian Rounds and finished runners up in the Asia Pacific Round. Also won the Best Memorandum award.

• The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition, Oxford 2008: Represented by: Devarshi Patel, Channi Srivastava, Manju Sagar. The team finished 3rd in the competition.

• ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, Asia Regional Rounds 2009: Represented by: Soham Badheka, Pujita, Aditi Suresh, Sreeja Jaiswal. GNLU team reached the semi final of the Asia Qualifying round and thereby qualified for the World Rounds.

• Manfred Lachs, Asia Pacific Round, 2009: Represented by: Shriya Maini, Balashree Jalgar, Prachi Dhanani. GNLU team reached the semi final round of the competition.

• Stetson International Moot Court Competition, North Indian Rounds, 2009: Represented by: Tanushree Bhuwalka, Debdatta Dobe, Nibedita Basu, Prashanth Ramdas & Karishma Muravne. The team won the 3rd best memorial award.

• International Infrastructure & Construction Law Arbitration Moot (IICLAM)-2010: Represented by Roshini Sinha, Oindrila Bhowmik & Nikita Jhunjhunwala. The team finished as runner’s up.

• ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, Asia Regional Rounds 2010: Represented by: Prerna Dilip, Anshu Choudhary, Aditi Tank, Aayushi Sharma. GNLU team reached the final of the Asia Qualifying round and thereby qualified for the World Rounds. Anshu Choudhary also won the best speaker for the prelim rounds.

•  52^nd Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition 2011,National Round organized by the International Law Student’s Association (ILSA) in association with Surana & Surana International Attorneys at RMNLU, Lucknow : The GNLU Team comprising of Rishav Banerjee (Fourth Year, Semester  VIII), Sujoy Datta (Second Year, Semester IV), Nibedita Basu ( Fifth Year, Semester IX) , Varun Chablani  (Fourth Year, Semester  VIII). Devaditya Chakravarti (Second Year, Semester IV), B.N. Vivek (First Year, Semester II) and Shujoy Mazumdar ( First Year, Semester II) won the Third Best Memorial Award for their written submissions and finished overall Fifth in the National Rounds.

• The D.M Harish memorial international moot court competition was conducted between the 10th of February 2011 and the 13th February 2011. It is the most prestigious international moot court competition in the country with participation from colleges like Columbia Law School, New York university and all the national law colleges in India. The participants were Preseedha Premnath, Prajwala Lagali and Prerana Chaudhari, all students of third year. We were awarded the Best team of the competition with cash Prize of Rs 30,000 and a trophy with certificates. The final rounds of the competition were judged by 5 sitting judges of the Bombay High Court.