1ST JUSTICE Y.K.

SABHARWAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

MOOT COURT COMPETITION 2018
[OCT 5-7, NLU DELHI]: REGISTER BY JULY 20.

The Y.K. Sabharwal Moot Court Competition aims to foster and cultivate interest in constitutional
law and philosophy. The Competition aims to challenge participants to engage in research on
cutting edge questions plaguing the best scholars in the field. The Competition shall be held in the
New Delhi, the city where the Constitution came to life.

STRUCTURE OF THE COMPETITION

Twelve (12) teams will be selected through memorial eliminations to participate in the oral rounds
in Delhi from 5th – 7th October 2018. The Competition will require the participants to work on
two (2) problems. The first problem will be used for memorial eliminations, preliminary oral
rounds and the Quarter-Finals. The second problem will be used for the Semi-Finals and the
Finals.

PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION

Provisional Registration must be done by sending a mail expressing interest to

yksmoot@nludelhi.ac.in. This mail must also contain the contact details of the Moot Court
Committee’s Convenor/Faculty-in-charge.

SCHEDULE

Moot Problem-I to be released: Second week of June 2018

Last date for seeking clarifications on Moot Problem-I: 30th June 2018

Clarifications to Moot Problem-I: 5th July 2018

Deadline for Registrations: 20th July 2018

Deadline for submissions of Memorials: 14th August 2018

Release of Moot Problem-II: 20th August 2018

Memorial Elimination Results: 10th September 2018

Written Submissions for Moot Problem-II: 1st October 2018

Oral Rounds: 5th - 7th October 2018

ELIGIBILITY

 Only one team can submit memorials from an institution and all participants in a team
must be from the same institution.
 The competition is open to students currently registered in any 5-year integrated
undergraduate law degree/ 3-year undergraduate law degree/ LL.M in India.