ACCOLADES

Reinventing Legal Education

The Institute of Law, Nirma University adheres to an appropriate pedagogy, blending together the dissemination of knowledge, inculcation of values and nurturing of skills required for the legal profession. Keeping this ideology in mind, the academic culture at the Institute provides hosts of simulation exercises to hone these skills and carve out the vital simulative exercises in this area that help the students to develop the skills of legal research; application of law, critical thinking, argumentation, effective communication and collaborative learning. So the Institute has been emphasizing mooting activities, providing vast opportunities and exposure to the students.

The Institute provides innumerable opportunities for participating in National, International events like seminars, moot courts etc. The Institute has a state-of-the art Moot Court Hall which is equipped with all the modern facilities to give a real life experience of mooting to the students. Students enthusiastically participate and have brought laurels in prestigious National and International Moot Court Competitions.

The Institute also has a well-defined moot policy, guiding the students for the participation in national and international moots. The students are sent to compete in the national and international level competition after a selection procedure at the institute level. Students are provided with intensive training by trained coaches. The Institute provides financial support to the students for their national and international participation.

I, on behalf of the Institute am happy to present a report of some of the landmark achievements of the students.

Prof. (Dr.) Purvi PokhariyalDirector and DeanInstitute of Law, Nirma University

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

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The Institute of Law, Nirma University became the first thprivate law school to create history by winning the 30

31st and 32nd All India Inter University Moot Court

Competition. The team comprising Ronith Roy, Vaibhav

Kumar & Arpit Singhvi (November 7-9, 2014), team

comprising Harshit Choradia, Yash Bagra & Bharat Singh

(February 5-7, 2015) and the team of Dhananjay

Kashyap, Prabhatkumar Rai and Akshay Dixit (March 5-7, th st nd2016) respectively won the 30 , 31 & 32 All India Inter

University Moot Court Competitions organized by the

Bar Council of India three times in a row.

thIn the 30 BCI Moot competition, the team was declared

"CHAMPIONS" after dominating NALSAR, Hyderabad in

the final round. The team excelled with brilliance and

sheer dominance in the whole competition with a clean

sweep of all awards in their name. Mr. Arpit Singhvi

bagged the Best Speaker Award in the final round as well

as in the overall competition.

Mr. Ronit Joy, who complemented with equal grace, won

the Best Speaker Award for the Preliminary Rounds

completing the clean sweep at the competition. Both the

participants were acknowledged with a scholarship of Rs

.12,000/- each narrating their success stories. The Team

was well supported by the hard work of Mr. Vaibhav

Kumar who held the important role of the researcher.

Winning the BCI moot brought great acclaim to the

institute and helped establish ourselves as a big name in

the mooting fraternity in the country.

stIn the 31 BCI Moot Competition, Bharat Singh won the

Best Male Advocate Award and the Best Mooter Award.

The team also won the Best Memorial for the semi-finals

and finals.

ndIn the 32 BCI Moot Competition, the team won the Best

Memorial Award. Dhananjay won the Best Speaker

Award in Semi-Final round. Akshay won the overall Best

Advocate Award.

TH ST NDIL-NU TEAM WINS 30 , 31 & 32 BAR COUNCIL ALL INDIA MOOT COURT COMPETITION THREE TIMES IN A ROW!

th30 BCI Moot winners: Vaibhav Kumar, Arpit Singhvi & Ronith Joy

st31 BCI Moot winners: Yash Bagra, Bharat Singh& Harshit Chordia

nd32 BCI Moot winners: Dhananjay Kashyap, Prabhatkumar Rai & Akshay Dixit

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The team compring of Ravleen Chhabra, Priya Khemchandani, Shresth Vardhan brought laurel to India and the Institue by reaching the prelims of the world’s most prestigious moot court competition. The Jean Pictet Competition in 2019 in France. Ravleen Chhabra got Nominated for Gilbert-Apollis Prize for the Best Speaker in 31st Concours Jean Pictet Competition, 2019 amongst 72 participants.

The team comprising Ravleen Chhabra, Priya Khemchandani and Shresth Vardhan won the South

thAsian rounds of the 17 Henry Dunant moot court competition held in Nepal. The team defeated Iran and Pakistan in the Preliminary Rounds. In the Semi Finals they defeated GNLU, Iran, Sri Lanka and Nepal. In the Finals they were declared winners against Sri Lanka.

Henry Moot Team

The Team then represented India and South Asian Region in the world rounds where the team reached quarter finals.

The team comprising Sakshi Rathore, Agrima Shankar, Ankur Mishra, Anshika Pandey, and Ritika Singh have

rdbeen adjudged as 3 Best Team in the National Rounds thof the 24 Stetson's International Environmental Moot

Court Competition, 2019-20 and have qualified for the World Rounds to be held at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida in April 2020.The Institute has qualified for the third time in a row for world rounds.

In the National rounds, the team faced Lloyd, AIL Mohali, RGNUL (Octa Finals), GNLU (Quarter-Finals) and NUALS Kochi (Semi-Finals).

th24 Stetson Team

The team comprising Rohan Bangia, Sanjhi Agarwal and Twinkle Malukani were adjudged as the overall winners of the NLIUINADR International Law School Mediation Tournament, 2018. The team also bagged the award of the best mediator team in the same competition based on score of the preliminary rounds and final rounds. Twinkle Malukani represented the team as mediator in finals. The competition was organized the National Law

rd thInstitute University, Bhopal from 23 November – 25 November, 2018.

Team consisting of Alind Chopra, Chiranjeev Saboo and thTanay Tiwari, were declared as winners at the 9 BR

Sawhny Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2015 st thorganized by NALSAR, Hyderabad. (1 to 4 October

2015).

ILNU MOOT TEAM WINS ACCOLADES AT INTERNATIONAL MOOTING!

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Team comprising of Sneha Sharma, Ojasvi Mishra,

Chetan Saxena & Aayush Saxena has been adjudged as

the winner of Open Challengers of Herbert Smith

Freehills Competition Law Moot 2020 which is the

leading moot court competition in competition law. The

judge was impressed by their argumentative skills and

knowledge of the basics.

The team comprising of Sourabh Pancholi, Divyang

Bhatiya & Ojasvi Sharma was declared as winners of the th 7 Amity International Moot Court Competition held at

th thAmity University, Noida from 26 to 28 October, 2017.

The team also bagged the award for the Best Memorial

at the competition and made ILNU proud.

Students with winning trophy

Aadesh Shinde, a third year student bagged the title of "Best Delegate Award" at Sansad, the National Youth Parliament, held at Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi. The competition was held from January 18-19, 2020. It witnessed 65 participants from all over the country. The theme was “Curbing fake news through legislative measures while ensuring freedom of speech and role of judiciary”

Adesh Shinde with Winning Trophy

Aadesh Shinde, a sixth semester student of has won "The Times of India Torrent Power Public Speaking Contest" held at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) on February 26, 2020.

Adesh Shinde with Winning Trophy

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ILNU team represented by Shahrukh Khan, Prapti Patel ndand Soumya Vaishy won the 2 Vivekananda Institute of

Professional Studies International Moot Court

Competition, 2014. The team was declared

"CHAMPIONS" after prevailing over CNLU, Patna in the

final round. The team excelled with brilliance in the final

round. The team's effort is exemplary as they made their

way to Final Rounds surpassing 34 teams from all over

the country including major National Law Universities

and defeated teams like GNLU, HNLU, Jindal Global Law

School. The team bagged the cash prize of Rs.25,000/-

for their success at the competition.

The team comprising of Swarnabh Dutta, Vijita Mohan,

Ritu Modi and Sandeep Bansiwal participated in the thIndia 5 Rounds of the Frankfurt Arbitration Moot Court

Competition at Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A.

Shroff & Co. in New Delhi on February 9, 2012. The ILNU

team after defeating GNLU and NLU, Orissa in their

preliminary rounds reached the finals wherein they

defeated NUJS, Kolkata. The team has been conferred

with the Best Indian Team Award and Swarnabh Dutta

was given the 2nd Best Speaker Award.

The team represented India in the International Rounds thof the 5 Frankfurt Arbitration Moot Court Competition

held in Frankfurt, Germany during March 12 -16, 2012.

Team comprising Gahna Rajani, Harshal Sareen, Jayesh

Stilani, Ramit Singh and Prachi Gupta participated in the th27 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration

rd thMoot from 3 to 9 April 2020 in Vienna (Virtual

Rounds).

Followed by the general rounds was the announcement

of the teams breaking into semi-finals and finals. Top 8

teams broke into the semi-finals and our team was thplaced 10 .

thThe ILNU Team won the 6 Annual IIPS Moot Court

Competition based on the Intellectual Property Rights.

The students namely Khyati Shah, Nagendra and Surabhi

Pathak have been awarded with the Best Team Trophy.

The ILNU team defeated the teams from School of

Excellence, Chennai; Amity Law College, Delhi; ILS, Pune

and Symbiosis Law College, Pune during the different

rounds of the Competition.

IL-NU team comprising Bayar Goswami, Gunjan Jadwani rdand Varnali Purohit was adjudged the 3 Best Team at

the national level round of Stetson International

Environmental Moot Court Competition. The

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Team consisting Arjun Doshi (Semester X), Natasha Sutaria, Mayank Soni, Tirth Nayak and Siddharth Bapna

thparticipated in the 55 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition (North India Rounds), 2014 and bagged the Fourth Best Memorial Award.

Team consisting of Fatema Khorakiwala, Lekha Mehta, thVageesha Daga won the 12 Justa Causa National Moot

Court Competition, 2014.

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competition was held from November 30 - December 2,

2012 at NLIU, Bhopal. In the semi-finals we were against

RMNLU (who stood first) and our score was very close

to qualify for Florida - International rounds. The teams

performance was much appreciated by the judges, the

personal feedback was amazing.

thIL-NU team won third position in the 12 Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition, organized jointly by the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Delhi. The team comprised of three students Vibhor Chaplot, Ankita Maitreya and Manushi Yadav. A total of 49 participated from law colleges all over India. They were facilitated by the Institute on October 17, 2012 for their outstanding performance.

Bharat Singh, Harshit Chordia and Vasvi Tapriya (Fourth thSemester Students) won "The 5 All India Shivaji

University Moot Court Competition" held at Kolhapur from March 22 to 23, 2014.

The team of Manan Bhimani, Shubhendra Chakra and Ajay Kumar Kanaparthi won the Spirit of Surana Award at the Surana & Surana Trial Advocacy Moot Court Competition held at BVP, Pune.

The moot team comprising of Madhav Kumar, Pranav Malhotra, Jharna Sahijwani and Eesha Govilla participated in

ththe 5 International ADR Moot Court Competition, Hong Kong. The team was the first from Institute of Law, Nirma University to break into the semifinal round of an International Level moot court competition. The team on its way to glory, surpassed 22 teams that had participated from across the globe. The team defeated teams from Gujarat National Law University, National Law School University India, Goa University, Edinburgh University and University of Korea respectively. One of the team members, Madhav Kumar, was ranked 5th best oralist out of more than 50 oralists who had participated in the competition.

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Students with the Director and Faculty Moot Coordinators

Akshara Gyan, Mohit Mittal and Disha Goyal, students of the IX Semester and Harsh Sharma of VII Semester won the Regional Round of the All India Moot Court Competition conducted by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India held in Mumbai on July 15, 2015. They represented Ahmedabad Chapter of the ICSI in the Regional Round.

The Team comprising of Brihan Madhav, Manvi Damle thand Sanket Gupta won the 15 Amity National Moot

Court Competition 2016 held by the Amity Law School, Delhi on February 26-28, 2016. Brihan also won the 2nd Best Advocate award of the competition.

The team comprising of Diksha Pathak, Deepakshi Garg and Dhruv Patel was declared winners at the 1st ICFAI National Moot Court Competition. Diksha Pathak was adjudged as theBest Mooter of the competition.

Team of Ridhvick Dosi, Siddharth Chechani and Akash Deep Gupta is declared in Top 5 at the Second Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARC Mooting Competition which was held in Lloyd Law College, Delhi on December 3 – 4, 2016.

The team comprising of Rajeev Kumar Tiwari (First year), Ayushi Mukherjee (First Year) and Suryansh Srivastava (First Year) has been declared the winners in

ththe 7 Jamia Millia Islamia National Moot Court Competition.

th ILNU Team wins Best Memorial Award at the 8 Pro Bono Enviro National Moot Court Competition, at The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University 2014. (October 17-19, 2014) ILNU team represented by Alind Chopra, Bobby Jain and Chiranjeev Saboo won the Indraprastha National Moot Court Competition 2014, at University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGS Indraprastha University. The team was declared "CHAMPIONS" after superseding RGNUL, Patiala in the final round. The team excelled with brilliance in the final round with a margin of 103 marks. The team showcased their finest performance before the eminent personalities from the legal field including Hon'ble Mr. Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit (Judges, Supreme Court of India), Hon’ble Justice Mukta Gupta (Judge, High Court of Delhi), Mr. Siddharth Luthra (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India) and Prof. M. Afzal Vani (Dean, Indraprastha University).

Team comprising of Mr. Yash Tripathi, Mr. Shubham Rathi and Mr. Akshay Madan were declared "Winners" at

ththe 5 M. K. Nambyar National Moot Court Competition, 2015. Mr. Yash Tripathi also bagged the "Best Male Speaker Award" at the competition. The team bagged the "Third Best Memorial Award" at the competition.

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Team consisting of Nishi Agrawal, Mayur Jugtawat, thGaurav Maharshi, was declared as Winners of 16

Surana and Surana National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition 2018, Mysore (Karnataka) during February

th9-11, 2018. Nishi Agrawal declared as the 4 Best Memorial Speaker.

Team consisting of Sakshi Pawar, Anjali Upadhyay and Divyam Jhaveri emerged as Winners Nishi Agrawal, Mayur Jugtawat, Gaurav Maharshi, declared as Winners

thof 13 G.H Raisoni National Trial Appellate Moot Court Competition, Nagpur during March 16-18 2018. Anjali Upadhyay was declared as the Best Advocate and Divyam Jhaveri declared as the Best Researcher.

Team consisting of Ridhvick Dosi, Siddharth Chechani and Nitya Jain participated in the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot (ISRO National Funding Rounds) held in NLSIU, Bangalore during March 24-25, 2018 and declared as Runners up.

The team comprising of Sahil Jain, Shivaranjani Verma, Rhea Sevak, Hardik Gautam, Divyansh Tiwari wa declared winners of Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition (SIMCC) National Rounds of the competition held at School of

th thLaw, Sastra University, Thanjavur from 24 -26 November, 2017.

ILNU team comprising of Saloni Modi, Soham Gurjar, and thEkta Jhanjhari have emerged as the Winners at the 16

Justa Causa National Law Moot Court Competition Festival 2018 held at Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Law, Nagpur held during Jan 19-21, 2018.

Team consisting of Trisha, Mansi Singh and Disha Gupta thdeclared as Winners of GLC Thiruvananthapuram’s 13

All India Moot Court Competition 2018 held in GLC, Trivandrum during March 8-10, 2018. The team bagged the Best Memorial Award.

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The team comprising of Sristi Gautam, Saurabh Pancholi, Chitransh Sharma and Kajal Singh qualified for Prof N R Madhava Menon SAARC LAW Moot Court Competition International Rounds. The qualifying rounds of the said competition were organized by Lloyd Law College, Noida from October 26-October 28, 2018.

The team comprising of Jaya Singh, Mansi Singh, Soma Silpa Swain and Namit Jain qualified for the world rounds of the 23rd Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition, 2019 by securing a place in the Semi Finals of the Surana and Surana India National Rounds, 2018. The India National Rounds were organized by Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, Haryana,

rd th from 23 November – 25 November, 2018.

The team comprising of Shruti Verma, Anusha Shekhawat and Deepak Singh Jadoun were adjudged as winners of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) Moot Court Competition (India rounds), 2019 held at CSI College for Legal Studies,

th thKerala from 12 -13 January, 2019. The team also won the citation for the Second Best Memorial.

The Team Comprising of Rajeev Tiwari, Ojasvi Mishra and Sneha Sharma were adjudged as winners of the CCI-NLUD Moot Court Competition, 2019 held on 08th-10th March, 2019.

The team comprising of Aarushi Kasliwal, Vaibhav Singh and Shivi Shrivastava won the prestigious ever rolling trophy of Adv TS Venkateshwara for the Best Memorial. Aarushi Kasliwal was bestowed with the award for the Best Female Advocate and Best Student Advocate. Vaibhav Singh was awarded the Best Male Advocate

ndprize and Shivi Shrivastava was awarded with the 2 Best Researcher prize in XIX All India Moot Court Competition 2019. The competition was organized by

th th GLC Ernakulum from 25 -27 January, 2019

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The team comprising of Sakshi Pawar, Aviral Thakre and thYash Bhootra were adjudged as the winners of the 17

Justa Causa National Moot Court Competition, 2019 th thwhich was held on 08 -10 March, 2019.

The team comprising of Atharv Arya, Ashwini Gehlot thand Shraddha Sharma won the 4 SLCU National Trial

Advocacy Competition, 2019, organized by School of law, Christ University, Bengaluru on January 31 – February 02, 2019

The team comprising of Kahinee Bhatt and Prakul Khera won the Symbhav Client Counselling Competition held at Symbiosis Law School in Pune February 23 & 25, 2019

Felicitation Ceremony

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The team comprising, Sanjhi Agarwal, Varada Jahagirdar ndand Priyanka Bajpai bags the citation for the 2 Best

th Memorial in National Rounds 5 Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon SAARC Law Mooting competition, 2019-2020, held from October 18- 20, 2019.

Moot Court achievers

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The team comprising Varada Jhagirdar, Sanjhi Agarwal and Priyanka Bajpai, semester sixth students have won

ththe citation for "Best Memorial" at 5 Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon SAARC Law Mooting Competition, 2019-2020. The international rounds of the competition were held at Llyod Law College, Delhi from February 21 - 23, 2020. In addition to this, the team was adjudged as quarter-finalists and Varada Jhagirdar was awarded as "Best Female Advocate" at the competition.

Team comprising Binayak Subudhi Mahi Vyas and Somdev Tiwari qualified in India rounds for international SAARC rounds at Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon SAARC Mooting Competition. The competition was held at Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, from 27th-29th, October, 2017

Mooting is an intergral activity in the life of a law student and counts for not only the expereince a student gains from participating in such activties but mooting also helps in developing the skills of the students. Acknowledging the same, Institute of Law provides and facilitates the students with the oppertunity to participate in such International and National moot court competitions. Futhermore, the students have made the Institue proud by winning many accolades. The students have participated in the prestigious moot court competitions.

The team comprising of Shruti Verma, Anusha Shekhawat and Deepak Singh Jadoun represented India in the Sixteenth Commonwealth Moot, 2019 held in

stconjunction with the 21 Commonwealth Law Conference in Zambia in April 2019. The team declared Runners up.

ILNU Team won 2 runners up Stetson International

Environmental Moot Court Competition, team consisting

of Bayar Goswami, Gunjan Jadwani and Varnali Purohit

thILNU team participated at the 19 Willem C. vis

International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court

Competition which was organized in the month of 1 to 8

April, 2012, and was nominated for Best Respondent

Memorial.

After winning the national round, the team comprising

of Sahil Jain, Shivaranjani Verma, Rhea Sevak, Hardik

Gautam, Divyansh Tiwari represented India in the

International Rounds of Stetson International Moot

Court Competition in Florida

The team comprising of Prateek Mago, Jay Nene and

Pranav Rathore represented Institute of Law, Nirma

University and India at the Asia Pacific Rounds of

Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, held th stfrom 18 to 21 April, 2017. The team was adjudged the

th7 Best Team of the twenty competing teams from

across the Asia Pacific region.

Team comprising of Parneet Kaur, Samiksha Jain,

Swastik Bisariya and Vishaksha Jaswani have won the

award for Second Best Memorial in the South and West thAsia Regional Round of 18 John H. Jackson Moot Court

Competition, 2020. The team faced MNLU and GNLU in

their prelims and GNLU was declared as the winner of

the South and West Asia Regional Rounds.

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Promoting to participate at international level with the

fact that Debate as an activity contributes in the holistic

development of an individual, students from Institute of

Law, Nirma University participate in the following

International Debates

® World University Debating Championship

® Asian Universities Debating Championship

ILNU Debate achievements

thTeam consisting of Alind Chopra of 4 Semester, Manu thTripurari and Prannoy Shekhar of 8 Semester

participated in the Parliamentary Debate competition of

SENATE, 2014 at DA-IICT Gandhinagar and bagged the

Winner’s Trophy. The competition was held from

February 28 to March 2, 2014.

Devashish Trivedi secured an Adjudicator Break at the

Asia Debate Open held at held at Guangzhou, China from

August 23- August 25, 2019.

rdSubham Borah secured 3 Best Adjudicator at

Kathmandu World Debates held in Nepal from

September 12 - 16, 2019.

Devashish Trivedi, a fifth year student secured an

adjudicator break at the 40th World Universities Debate

Championship (WUDC), 2020 at Bangkok, Thailand held

from December 27, 2019 – January 3, 2020. WUDC is

known as the Mecca of Parliamentary Debating and the

competition saw the participation of more than 700

candidates from over 100 countries. The Institute of

Law becomes one of the six institutes from India to have

secured a break at WUDC

Subham Bohra a final year student of Institute of Law,

Nirma University was declared as the winner of NMIMS

Loquitur 2019 debate championship. His team won all

the 7 rounds and clinched the winner's trophy. He was th also declared the 5 best speaker of the tournament.

Further, Devashish Trivedi was declared the 2nd best

adjudicator in the tournament.

Subham Borah along with two teammates from GLC

Mumbai won the NMIMIS School of Law Loquitor

Parliamentary Debate. In the same tournament,

Devashish Trivedi was declared the 2nd Best th Adjudicator. Subham Borah was also declared the 5

Best Speaker

Team consisting Subham Krishna Borah and Devashish

Trivedi participated in the United Asian Debating

Championship 2019, organized by Vietnam National

University, International School, Hanoi. The event was

held on June 14-16, 2019

Aditya Kavia, alumni of ILNU and Vasundhara Kanoria of

Semester IX were declared as winners of BITS Pilani,

Goa British Parlimentary Debate Competition.

Vasundhara was declared as the Best Speaker of the

Finals and Aditya Kavia was declared as Best Speaker of

the Tournament held on 27-29 October 2017

INTERNATIONAL DEBATE COMPETITION

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The Institute encourages the students not only for mooting and debate level competitions but also help them to achieve heights in other competitions such as Mediation Competition, Summits at national and international level.

th7 ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition 2012

ILNU team comprising of Shreyansh Jatakia, Sowbhagya thRao and Aishvarya participated in the prestigious 7 ICC

International Commercial Mediation Competition 2012 held in Paris France. Aishwarya nominated for best researcher award.

Pruthvirajsinh Zala, a semester third student of Institute of Law participated in the World Bank Youth Summit-2019 as one of the Indian delegates. The Youth Summit was held at World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC from December 2-3, 2019. The summit witnessed participation of 330 selected delegates from 150 countries. This summit was based on the theme, 'Smart Cities for a Resilient Future'

Ujjawal Bhargav, a third year student has secured first position in National Essay Writing Competition on the theme 'Human Rights as the Principle of Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge'. The competition was organised by IAMR Law College, Ghaziabad

Shatakshi Johri, IX Semester, grabbed the Third Prize at a SOUTH ASIAN ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - Ensayo , organized by ICRC. She is the only Indian to have won this competition.

ILNU team consisting Vedansh Sharma, Prateek Mago, and Himanshu Subodh Awasthi won various awards at the Jaipur Youth Parliament organized in Jaipur. Vedansh Sharma received high commendation representing Ravi Shankar Prasad in Lok Sabha debating on the Uniform Civil Code. Prateek Mago also received high commendation while representing Mr. Pappu Yadav. Himanshu Subodh Awasthi represented Shri L.K. Advani and received a special mention from the EB. (6018A)

thRoomani Shah of 9 Semester got selected as one amongst the 20 individuals from all over the world to

thattend the 8 Annual Liberty camp from September 23- 28, 2015 organized by Društvo Svetilnik (Lighthouse Association) from Slovenia in partnership with the Cato Institute from the United States and the Institute of Economic Affairs from the United Kingdom at Slovenia, Europe.

th rdTanay Tiwari of 5 Semester stood at 3 position out of more than 3000 entries to attend the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and European College of Law (ECL)’s Summer School at London from September 24-29, 2015 as his research article was selected as part of competition on Transnational Legal Education-Prospects and Challenges conducted by CLEA-ECL

Prateek Mago won Best Delegate award by representing Sachin Tendulkar in Rajya Sabha at Utkarsha Youth Parliament organized by Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore.

A person with courage can light up thousands, Pruthvirajsinh Zala, has carved a niche by filing PIL against the two month extension on ban of PUBG, an online video game, in Rajkot. The high court lifted the ban, sustaining the PIL filed. The arbitrary grounds on which police arrested kids playing PUBG were challenged as they were violative of fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

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RANKINGS

th• Ranked 4 in India's Best Private Law Schools by Career 360, January 2020.

th• Ranked 6 in Best Law College among the

private law colleges in India, The Week, [June-2019]

th• Ranked 18 best law colleges in India, The Week [June 2019]

th• Ranked 7 in the Top Law Colleges in India,

Outlook (June 2019)

th• Ranked 4 in Best Private Law College

among the western zone in India, The Week [June-2019)

th• Ranked 8 best private Law college by India Toady [July 2019]

th• Ranked 8 in Best Law College among the

private law colleges in India, The Week, June-2018

th• Ranked 4 in Best Private Law college among the western zone in India in June-2018, The Week, June-2018

th• Ranked 8 in Best Professional Law colleges

in India, Outlook June 2018

th• IL-NU has been ranked as the 6 Best Law

College among the Private Law Colleges in India by The Week, June 2017

• The Outlook Magazine has ranked IL-NU as th

the 11 Best Law College among Government and Private Law Colleges in India in June-2017

AWARD AND RANKINGS

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Nirma University’s Institute of Law has been adjudged and recognised for its high standard in legal education by The

Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF), and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT). Prof. (Dr.) Purvi

Pokhariyal, the Director and Dean, Institute of Law received the award from Shri Lalit Bhasin, President of the SILF at a

specially arranged function held in New Delhi on September 7, 2012 in the presence of dignitaries and legal luminaries

from across the country. The jury, under the Chairmanship of Justice J. S. Verma, former Chief Justice of India,

unanimously selected Institute of Law, Nirma University for the Award from among the hundreds of law schools of its

kinds among the SAARC countries.

The SILF & MILAT also gave a Citation

Certificate of appreciation which says that it

is rare in the history of legal education for a

law school to attain recognition as an

institution on the road to academic and

professional excellence within five years of its

establishment. The leadership of the law

school and the management of the University

were appreciated for providing adequate

infrastructural facilities, ample freedom to

experiment with academic initiatives and

sustained development of programmes of

teaching and research. It also applauded the

Institute of Law, Nirma University for

providing an intensive and demanding

programme of study for its under-graduate

and post-graduate students from across the

country

The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) is a collective venture of India’s Top Corporate Law Firms and the only

representative body for Law Firms of India till date. Given the importance to legal education in the development of

India, SILF is keen to promote prestigious institutes which carry weight when it comes to quality future of students

studying law. Based on the intensive and innovative work undertaken by the Institute of Law, Nirma University, the jury

has selected the Nirma University Institute of Law for the “Institutional Excellence Award, 2012”.

INSTITUTE OF LAW, NU CONFERRED WITH INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD, 2012 IN MOST PREFERRED LAW COLLEGES IN SAARC COUNTRIES.

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ILNU CONFERRED WITH NATIONAL LEGAL AWARD 2015

Institute of Law, Nirma University (ILNU) has been conferred with an award in “Excellence in Industry Interface in Legal Education” by CMAI Association of India in support of Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India in the function of National Legal Summit & Awards, 2015. Hon'ble Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India conferred this award to Dr. Purvi Pokhariyal, Director and Dean, Institute of Law, Nirma University on May 20, 2015 at BSNL Auditorium, Janpath, New Delhi in the function of National Legal Summit & Awards, 2015 organized by CMAI Association of India. The Institute of Law, Nirma University was established in 2007.

Institute of Law has been emphasizing more on Continuing Clinical Legal Education having innovative pedagogy and all-round development of the students gives maximum exposure to the practical field through intensive internship. Mooting activity has also been a very prime activity of the Institute.

IL-NU SELECTED FOR IP HALL OF THE FAME-IP INSTITUTE OF THE YEAR

IL-NU AWARDED INDIA’S BEST LAW EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Institute of Law, Nirma University was selected as IP Campus of the Year (Legal) for its outstanding contribution in the field of Intellectual Property at the IP-Hall of Fame Honours, held on July 14, 2017 at Hyatt Regency, Ahmedabad. Prof.(Dr.) Purvi Pokhariyal, Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University attended the function and received the honour on behalf of the Institute.

Institute of Law, Nirma University received the ‘Best Law Education Institute’ under Goodwill Brands Awards in the category of best legal education in the country in a Symposium - Thought of Leadership Champions - Change hosted by Herald Global. The event was organized by ERTC Media on July 19, 2017 at Hotel Sahara One in Mumbai.

The Legal Aid Clinic, Institute of Law, Nirma University received the Award of Excellence for Contribution in Social Justice and Legal Aid from Knowledge Steez & Youth for Human Rights, India. The Award was given at the 3rd National Conference on Human Rights & Gender Justice 2018 held at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi on June 23, 2018.

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