University Mooting Rounds 2025 | By The Moot Court Society

The NLS Moot Court Society organised the University Moot Selection Rounds for the AY 2025–26 on August 30 and 31, 2025. the University Rounds also serve as the selection process for national and international moot court competitions. These rounds not only established the rank list but also determined the allocation of moot opportunities to candidates, based on their performance.

Participants

The rounds saw registrations from over 700 students and memorials submitted by nearly 400 participants. Of these, the top 300 participants qualified for the oral rounds, where they argued the problem over the course of two days.

Achievements

• Satej Prabhughate, IIIrd-year BA LLB (Hons) secured Rank 1 in the Final Rank List;
• Nikhilesh Mukherjee was the highest-ranked Ist-year participant (Rank 6);
• Navya Nair, IIIrd-year BA LLB (Hons) received the highest memorial marks;
• Aakash Dwivedi, IIIrd-year BA LLB (Hons) received the highest marks in the oral rounds.

The Proposition

The proposition, drafted by Mr. Mihir Naniwadekar, NLSIU visiting faculty, focussed on various issues, including but not limited to constructive trusts, the corporate veil, and modification of arbitral awards.

Mr. Naniwadekar is an alum of NLSIU and in 2007, his team won the India Rounds of the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, and emerged as the Octa-Finalists at the World Rounds in Washington, D.C. He has continued to be associated with the competition for over a decade, judging Jessup memorials regularly and also serving as a judge at the World Rounds. In 2010, he coached the NLSIU team for the Jessup competition. He graduated from NLSIU in 2009, and he was awarded the University Gold Medal in Law & Economics. He has also completed the BCL and MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford and earned an MSc in Taxation in 2022. An Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, Mr. Naniwadekar has worked across litigation, academia, and legal scholarship. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at NLSIU from 2023 to 2024. His research interests lie in taxation, international tax, and private law, and he has published various articles related to commercial law matters. He has contributed widely to academic and public legal discourse through platforms such as SpicyIP, and has been affiliated with institutions including the University of New South Wales. He is currently working as an eminent commercial lawyer in Mumbai, practising as an advocate before the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India, and also serving as an arbitrator.

Organising Team

The bench memorial was drafted by Jishnudeep Kolay (IVth-year BA LLB), Abhydudaya Singh (IVth-year BA LLB), and Priyansh Dixit (Vth-year BA LLB).

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