A team from the Jindal Global Law School of the O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat has won the finals of the International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.
The team comprised students Mohanakrishna C., Bani Brar and Ronak Talati. Teams from around the world participated.
The Jindal Law School team beat one from the University of Oxford in the finals; Queen Mary University in the semi-finals and the Singapore Management University in the quarter-finals.
The competition is a global initiative of the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy (PCMLP) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. PCMLP, a research and policy programme, brings together scholars, policymakers and practitioners to study contemporary issues in global media law and policy.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme was founded in 1996 by Professor Monroe E. Price and Stefaan Verhulst with a grant from the Markle Foundation and the cooperation of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media, and Society at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
In a media release, Professor C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice-Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University and Dean, Jindal Global Law School, described the win as an extraordinary achievement for India and for Jindal.
