JGLS Becomes The First Indian Team To Win The Baker McKenzie Leiden Children's Rights Moot Court Competition

On 16^th April 2025, the team comprising Kashvi Choudhary, Nalin Arora, Apala, and Vaneet Kumar, representing the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University (India), emerged as Winners at the Baker McKenzie Leiden Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2025. Additionally, the team was awarded the Best Oral Arguments for the Applicants award.

This is the first time that an Indian Team has won this competition.

Leila Zerrougui, Prof. (Dr.) Ann Skelton, Benoit Van Keirsbilck, Dr. Fikire Tinsae Birhane, and Jaime Trujillo constituted the bench for the final rounds between the teams from O.P. Jindal Global University (India) and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), with the latter emerging as the Runners-Up.

This year's competition saw 31 teams comprising 110+ students from almost 20 countries plead a fictitious case drafted by Dr. Fikire Tinsae Birhane. The problem involved a dispute between a state and a group of children on alleged violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols.

Over four months, the competing teams worked on and submitted written memorials for both the applicant and the respondent in the case. Subsequently, from the 7^th to 10^th April 2025, each team participated in four preliminary rounds of oral pleadings, hoping to make it to the elimination rounds.

The other notable awards, the Best Memorial for the Applicant and the Best Memorial for the Respondent, have been bagged by the teams from the Student Programme of the Inner Temple (UK) and University of Tehran (Iran), respectively.