Mooting captures a law student’s attention perhaps like no other co-curricular activity.
Mooting is a highly useful, competitive activity. It helps you develop the core skills of research and writing, argumentation and presentation, and teamwork.
Many excellent mooters land up with top internships and job offers solely on the basis of their mooting capabilities.
Far more importantly, a good moot court competition is a journey towards self-development.
Lawctopus Law Schools presents a unique COURSE (& Competition) that will help you learn the fundamentals and the advanced aspects of mooting.
If you have never mooted, this course will provide you with all the information, knowledge, skills, and experience to participate and excel at various national and international moot courts.
If you have mooted before, this course (and the competition in-built into it) will help you enhance your skills.
This course covers everything about mooting. As a part of this course, the students will actually do a moot competition too! You’ll be given a moot problem, be asked to draft a memo, given feedback on that, and then we’ll take you to the oral rounds where you get to argue before a judge! And yes, you’ll be given feedback during the oral rounds.
Fresh mooters can expect a supportive environment. Experienced mooters can expect some grilling from the judges!
Our Moot COURSE (& Competition) has been designed and built by prize-winning mooters from India who have won top-quality national and international moots. More importantly, they share are genuine joy and passion for mooting, which they want to pass on to you!
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Our Moot COURSE (& Competition) is structured in the following format:
Module 1: Introduction to Mooting
Module 2: Reading and Researching the Moot Problem
Live Lecture 1: Reading a Memo and Research
Module 3: Drafting and Formatting a Moot Memo (Memorial)
Live Session 2: Drafting and Formatting a Memo
Assignment 1: Submit your Moot Memos and Get Feedback
Module 4: Oral Arguments and Courtroom Mannerisms
Live Lecture 3: On Court Mannerisms and Argumentation
Module 5: Live Online Moot Court Competition: Oral Rounds + Personal Feedback!
Module 6: Building a Mooting Culture in Your College
Live closing session
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Course Developers & Faculty
Jaibatruka Mohanta completed his B.L.S LL.B from the SVKMs Pravin Gandhi College of Law, University of Mumbai.
During his law school years, he won 3 national and 1 international moot court competitions amongst other accomplishments.
Currently, Jai is working as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Law Education Research & Advocacy (CEERA), NLSIU, Bengaluru.
Akash Yadav graduated from NLIU Bhopal in 2018. His mooting journey helped him transform from a ‘shy and timid’ guy to a ‘fair confident personality’.
He was a quarter-finalist at the 8th National Moot Court Competition- Checkmate, 2015 held at the Army Institute of Law, Mohali, and a quarter-finalist, at the 4th International Banking and Investment Law Moot Court Competition, 2015 held at Jaipur National University, Jaipur in 2015.
Select Achievements:
Won the 1st Baljeet Shastri Moot Court Competition held at Amity University, Gurgaon.
Runners-up at the National Moot Court Competition organized by LJ School of Law, Ahmedabad.
Akash has mentored University teams for National Moots at UILS, Punjab, and RGNUL, Patiala.
Anubhuti Mishra is a 2013 graduate of HNLU, Raipur, and completed her LLM from King’s College, London. She has aced several moots and has coached multiple teams to world-winning levels.
She has worked in multiple firms including HSA Advocates, Delhi; PSA Legal, Delhi; and P & A Law Offices, Delhi.
Sameer Gupta graduated from NUSRL Ranchi in 2020.
Select moot-court achievements:
He was a part of the Semi-Finalist team (3rd Ranked Team) at the SAARC Rounds and won the Best Student Advocate Award, at the Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARC LAW Mooting Competition, International Rounds, 2020.
His team qualified for the memorial-selection rounds from the Asia-Pacific region at the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, Asia Pacific Rounds, 2019.
Other mooting achievements:
Winner and Best Memorial, “8th School of Law, Christ University, National Moot 2017”, organized by Christ University, Bengaluru.
2nd Best Memorial Award and Octa-finalist, “22nd Stetson International Environmental Moot: Surana & Surana India National Rounds, 2017” held at SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.
Best Memorial, Quarterfinalists and Second Best Speaker, 10th Justice Hidayatullah Memorial National Moot, 2018, organized by HNLU, Raipur.
Coaching Experience
Coached the University team for the 12th NALSAR Justice BR Sawhney Memorial Moot, 2018 (finished as runners-up)
Coached the team for the 11th Leiden – Sarin International Air Law Moot, 2020 (qualified for the World Rounds)
Coached the University team for the 13th Pro Bono International Environmental Law Moot, 2019 (finished as Semi-Finalists, secured Best Memorial Award)
Sankalp Malik graduated from Amity Law School, Noida in 2019.
Select Mooting Achievements
Best Memorial, 4th National Trial Advocacy Competition organized by UPES, Dehradun, 2018
Runners-up in the 1st National Moot Court Competition organized by HPU Institute of Legal Studies’ Legal and Cultural Fest: Envision, 2017
Winners in the 1st B.R. Ambedkar National Moot Court Competition, 2017 organized by JCC, Calcutta.
Tejast Popat graduated from NUJS, Kolkata in 2020.
Select Moot Court Achievements
Oralist, Winner, Awarded as Best Oralist and Best Memorial, 2nd Justice Y.K. Sabharwal Constitutional Law Moot, NLU Delhi. [November 2019]
Oralist, Quarter-finalist and Honourable Mention (Best Memorial), Philip C. Jessup International Moot, 2019 (India Rounds). [March 2019]
Coach – WBNUJS, Best Overall Team; Best Respondent Memorial; Second Best Claimant Memorial; Hon’ble Mention, Speaker, Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot Court Competition. [November 2018]
Vikhyat Oberoi graduated from the School of Law, Christ University in 2017.
Select Moot Court Achievements
Winners and Best Memorial, 1st GNLU Moot on Securities and Investment Law 2015, organized by GNLU, Gujarat
Best Memorial and Semi-finalists, 8th National Law School- Trilegal International Arbitration Moot 2015, organized by NLSIU, Bangalore
Winners and Best Memorial, 1st K.G. Kannabiran National Moot on Transformative Constitutionalism, 2014, organized by Council for Social Development, Hyderabad
Semi-finalists, 3rd ILNU International Moot Court Competition, 2014, organized by Nirma University, Gujarat
Atishya Kumar graduated from NUALS Kochi in 2018 and completed her LLM from the University of Nottingham in 2019.
She’s currently the Director-in-Charge of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, and Nagpur Chapters of IDIA.
She’s an ace mooter who represented the University of Nottingham in the 31st Jean Pictet Competition, 2019, and received very positive feedback. She placed second Runner-up in the 8th Justice P.N. Bhagwati International Moot Court Competition on Human Rights, 2018.
She won the 6th Dr. Paras Diwan Memorial International ‘Energy Law’ Moot Court Competition, 2016 held in UPES College, Dehradun, and was adjudged Best Researcher at the 4th edition of RGNUL, Patiala Moot Court Competition, 2015.
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Who is this course for?
Law students interested in mooting
Faculty, judges involved in mooting, moot court societies
Law schools wanting to build a mooting culture in their law colleges. Please email tanuj.kalia@lawctopus.com if you are interested
Legal academicians wanting to understand how they can use mooting in their course
Learner’s Feedback
Details
Duration: 8 weeks
Course fee: Rs. 5900 (inclusive of GST)
Mode of learning:
Completely online and self-paced. (Except for the weekly live sessions. The recordings of the live sessions is also available)
7-8, 90-minute long live sessions with subject-experts
This offering contains an in-built moot competition (where you prepare a memorial and argue for one side) to give you real-life practice
An assignment where you draft a memorial and get personal feedback
A live moot where you argue, practice your oral rounds, and get personal feedback
Reading resources prepared by prize-winning mooters
Recorded video lectures
Sample moot problems, moot memos, mock-courts to tell you how pros draft their memorials
Screen-share videos on how to draft and format a moot memorial using MS Word
Screen-share video on how to use Manupatra and SCCOnline
Online-based forum for doubt-resolution
Add-on benefits:
Get a certificate issued by Lawctopus Law School after the completion of the course.
Free career counseling, CV, and career guidance for the best students in each batch.
A chance to get published on Academike, Lawctopus’ Law Journal (ISSN: 2349-9796) (if your paper is around contract law).
An opportunity to mentor future batches for senior students, academicians, and practitioners (this is a paid, part-time, work-from-home position at Lawctopus).
Add-on webinars on the subject matter by industry experts!
Become a part of the LLS alumni group and get access to jobs and internships on the go!
Free Access to Manupatra!
Students of this course will get free access to Manupatra for the duration of the course, i.e for 2 months. Manupatra is India’s most popular and trustworthy tool for legal research and we believe having access to the platform for 2 months will help students gain familiarity and develop competence in using this excellent resource.
Lawctopus and Manupatra also conduct joint webinars every 2-3 months. The webinars are around the topics of legal research, using Manupatra for legal research, etc. and students of this course will have the opportunity to attend those webinars on priority.
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