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MAIMS’ Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (ADRC) is organizing its 3rd Justice J.S. Verma Memorial ADRCC Competition and NAVITAS – MAIMS 3rd National Law Fest 2023
This event is happening in collaboration with the family of Justice J.S. Verma, FSRI- Foundation for Sustainable Rule of Law Initiatives and Asian School of Cyber Laws.
MAIMS 3rd Justice J.S. Verma Memorial ADRCC Competition seeks to encourage the effective use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and to promote an open exchange of ideas, experience and technical know-how between students and legal professionals which includes competitions namely- Mediation, Arbitration, Negotiation and Client Counselling Competition.
A workshop to be held prior to the competition by Ms. Jennifer L. Brandt, experienced Attorney, Arbitrator and Mediator for all the registered participants. She has served as a Judge and Mediator at ABA and ICC Commercial Mediation Competitions. She has participated in international dispute-resolution efforts around the globe. The workshop will discuss on basics of Mediation, its relevance, and future careers in it. Details of the same will be emailed to registered participants.
A one-hour workshop to be held prior to the competition by Asian School of Cyber Laws for all the registered participants. Details of the same will be emailed to registered participants.
In addition to this, MAIMS is proud to present MAIMS 3rd National Law Fest – NAVITAS, which involves various literary and cultural events- Constitutional Law Quiz, Article Writing, Creative Writing, Extempore Moot Court, Judgment Writing, Harmony-Solo Singing Competition, Folklore-Traditional Dance Competition, JAM – Just A Minute and Am I Picasso ??-Poster Making Competition.
22nd March 2023 – INAUGRAL (Offline)
23rd March 2023 – PRELIMS AND QUARTERS OF ADRCC COMPETITIONS (Online)
24th March 2023 – SEMI FINALS OF ADRCC COMPETITIONS (Online) & COMPETITIONS LIKE ARTICLE WRITING, CREATIVE WRITING, JUDGMENT WRITING AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUIZ (Online)
25th March 2023 – PRELIMS OF HARMONY, FOLKLORE, JAM AND AM I PICASSO?? (Online) & EXTEMPORE MOOT COURT (Online)
1st April 2023 – FINALS OF ADRCC & HARMONY, FOLKLORE, JAM & AM I PICASSO?? (Offline)
Followed by the VALEDICTORY CEREMONY
Refer the Brochure for registration and payment details.
Last date of Registration is 17th March 2023
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Note: Also find the detailed information book containing the rules & registration form of the particular events attached below respectively
E-Certificates of Participation shall be issued to all the participants. Rank holders shall be given certificates of merit and following awards will be distributed during the valedictory ceremony:
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Additional Perk* Subscription for SCC online web edition worth Rs.27000/- to the winning team
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Additional Perk* Subscription for SCC online web edition worth Rs.27000/- to the winning author
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For any queries, feel free to drop us an email at navitalawfest@maims.ac.in or contact the following Programme Heads:
Mimansa Girdhar
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Anshika Jain
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ABOUT RAJASTHAN LAW FEST
Rajasthan Law Festival erstwhile known as Jaipur Law Festival is a colossal event majorly based on legal field and aims to create legal awareness among youth and thereby showcasing their skills and legal intellectuality. Its pioneer edition was held on 9th December,2017. It gained a lot of success and applause in legal field by various dignitaries and youth. In the same way subsequent edition was organized on 18th-19th December,2021 which gained similar appreciation and was marked by auspicious presence of various dignitaries. Therefore taking forward this legacy, Rajasthan Law Fest will be organized on national level by Vidhishala in collaboration with Ranka Public Charitable Trust on 28th-29th January 2023. The motive behind this fest is to spread legal awareness extensively among youth and thereby enriching their legal knowledge. It will comprise of various engrossing activities as well as talk shows.
TALK SHOWS
The main aim behind talk shows is to bring Judges, Advocates and students altogether on a single platform in order to bring diversified ideas of law fraternity on same stage.
Session1: Juvenile Justice in India and Juvenile Rehabilitation: Socio-Legal Implication for Children:- This session will comprise of overview of present juvenile system and laws prevailing under it.
Session2: Reproductive Rights in India: The current situation & Legal Perspective:- This session aim towards enriching youth about reproductive rights enshrined in our constitution and to reflect on efforts undertaken for preservation of same.
Session 3– Trial by Media: A threat to our judicial system:- This session deals with working of media among present time and also focusses on laws as well as implications of the media trial among society.
The main aim behind this events is to help individuals showcase their skills and legal knowledge among competitive world. It comprises of certain events:
Aim: The aim of this competition is to enhance drafting skills of the individuals.Through this competition, participants will be able to identify the hidden areas among thesociety which will help them to provide solutions for such issues.
Theme: There is no fixed theme for this competition. Participants can take any socio-
legal topic for their application.
Eligibility: It is open for all under-graduate and post-graduate students from various disciplines.
Aim: It aims to provide a platform for students where they can enrich their debating skills easily by focusing on issues based on contemporary and developing aspects of law.
Theme: Trends and Public Opinion towards Animal Experimentation (This theme is only for preliminary round.) For further rounds i.e. Semi –finals and Finals, topic will be intimidated to the participants prior to the commencement of round.
Eligibility: It is open for all school, undergraduate and post- graduate students of multidisciplinary streams from various schools, colleges and universities across the country.
Aim: The main aim behind this event is to analyze research skills.
Eligibility: Papers are invited from students, academicians, research scholars, professionals and other stake holders.
Themes
Note: These are only prescribed themes. Participants can take any theme similar to these themes.
Aim: The aim behind this event is to explore the client – lawyer interaction skills and to improve the problem analyzing techniques of the students and giving such information which a client would like to know regarding his legal problem/case.
Eligibility: It is open for all post- graduate and under –graduate students.
Structure of Competition: It will comprise of prelims, semi-finals and finals.
Aim: The aim of this competition is to provide a platform for law enthusiasts & students to test their knowledge in the legal field. It will test memory, reasoning as well as analytical techniques of students.
Eligibility: Any student pursuing UG & PG in any discipline at any college or department of recognized universities.
Aim:- The main aim of public interest litigation is to safeguard the interests of the society and ensure that justice is served to all irrespective of social, financial and socio-economic backwardness.
Eligibility: Any student pursuing UG & PG in any discipline at any college or department of recognized universities.
Flagship Events: 28th January 2023
Talk Shows: 29th January 2023
Vidhishala is a global community registered under MSME, Govt of India & is a registered trademark under Trademark Act, 1999. It is a socio-legal organization which focuses on impregnating legal education and awareness in society by providing resourceful insights of multidisciplinary sections of law. We also aim to develop diverse political and socio-legal discussions to ensure that we are able to fertilize the ever-growing legal fraternity. Vidhishala is committed towards “servientes populi et legis” and hence we are heading towards different aspect of legal world.
Ranka Public Charitable Trust was constituted on the inspiration of Mrs. Urmila N. Ranka, in the year 1980 by Shri N.M. Ranka, Senior Advocate, Jaipur for promotion of public good and to serve the humanity. It is a public charitable trust of Ranka Family for the last over 35 years. It has entered into MoU with Five Year Law College & Law College of Rajasthan University to organize “Ranka National Moot Court Competitions” since 2011. It believes in a mass appeal to the Indian humanity “Build the Nation”, Awake, Arise and stop not till the goal is achieved.
Google says that search operators are “symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise.” They significantly ease the process of getting accurate results in no time. They also have a broad scope of getting utilized from content research to technical SEO audits to almost anything. These search operators are basically special characters and commands that when directly put into the Google search box aid the process of gaining precision in search results while doing different types of research. ( To know more, refer to Methods and Types of Legal Research for Writing Research Papers) Google can return standard relevant results except in special cases (like the ‘in’ operator). It’s fast, it’s short, and it lasts in the memory.
Given below are some highly useful and working operators that you should make an effort to getting used to for better efficiency and time management:
This forces an exact match search and is used while looking for single terms, to simplify results for vague searches, or to remove synonyms. Example: If “Elon Mask” is searched, the results will mandatorily contain the phrase ‘Elon Musk’.
It returns results linked to X or Y, or both when searching for ‘X or Y’. Also, it is possible to use the pipe (|) operator in place of ‘OR.’ Examples: Law OR CLAT / law| CLAT. Now the results would mandatorily have either law or the word CLAT.
When ‘X and Y’ are searched for, only results linked to both X and Y are returned. Note: For daily searches, it really doesn’t make a difference, as Google defaults to “AND” anyway. However, when combined with other operators, it’s very efficient and handy.
Example: law AND CLAT.
It is basically a negative tool used to remove a phrase or word. Referring to our example, any pages returned will be related to law but not CLAT. Example: law – CLAT
This serves as a wildcard and has the capability of matching any word or expression. Example: law*CLAT.
To regulate the execution of the search, this one group’s multiple words or search operators.
Example: (law OR CLAT) NLU.
This will reveal a word’s meaning in a card-like outcome in the Search results like in Google’s built-in dictionary. Example: define: Plaintiff
The most recent cached version of the indexed web page is returned by using this one. Example: cache: memopundits.com
This operator limits search results to those from a specific website. Example: site: memopundits.com
Used to find sites related to a given domain. Example: related: memopundits.com
This one will pick the pages with a certain word or words present in the title. Used to find pages with a certain word (or words) in the title. For example: searching ‘intitle: law’ would show all the results which contain the word ‘law’ in their title including words such as lawyers.
This one is similar to “intitle,” except only results are returned that include all the words in the title tag which are listed. For example: searching ‘allintitle: law’ would show all the results which specifically contain the word ‘law’ only in their title.
Used to locate pages in the URL containing a certain word (or words). Any results containing ‘law’ in the URL will be obtained in this example. Example: inurl: law
This one is similar to “inurl,” but only results containing all of the specific words in the URL will be returned. Example: allinurl: law CLAT
It is used somewhere within the web to find pages containing a certain word (or words). Any results containing the word ‘rule’ in the page content are returned for this example. Example: intext: law
Similar to ‘intext,’ but it will only return results that include all the stated words somewhere on the document. Example: allintext: law CLAT
This one is used to locate pages containing two words or phrases inside each other’s X words, which is a search tool for proximity. For this case, the words ‘law’ and ‘CLAT’ must not be separated by more than four words. Example: law AROUND(4) CLAT.
Now bringing the focus to solely on the students of law, listed below are some useful pointers so as to get used to Manupatra Search Operators for better research and organization:
This one is similar to the above-discussed google search operator “search item”.
This once again is mentioned above in the AND and OR google operators.
The aforementioned – google operator is similar to this one.
To obtain a specific result, it is advised to get rid of all the punctuations.
The search will always suggest the best matching words regardless of you committing spelling mistakes.
This one is used to specify the distance between words in any order. Example: “tort law”/3
This one is used to specify the distance between words in the same order. Example: “tort law”@3
This operator matches only those documents in which all the keywords are stated in the query of the same paragraph. Example: “tort law”/p
This matches the documents that include all the keywords of the query within the same sentence. Example: “tort law”/s
We hope these above-mentioned operators will prove to be useful in your future filled with research and exploration!
Research is a term derived from the French word “recherche”, which literally means to go about seeking (for information). Thus, research means to search again or seek again – an intensive search to ascertain something. It is a systematic activity directed towards the discovery and development of an organised body of knowledge.
Here, in the above example, you went from one point of inquiry to multiple other points of inquiry. This, precisely, is research. The process of research is a human activity based on intellectual application in the scholarly investigation of a matter in search of truths, facts, etc. Research can never give you a whole or an absolute answer to a question as the law is constantly evolving due to its dynamic nature.
The research methodology is akin to a blueprint for constructing a building. The main aim of the research methodology is to find a link between the research question and the research method. It justifies how the research method is appropriate for solving the selected research problem. The main aim of legal research is to regulate human behaviour by studying the relationship between the world of law and the world that the law tries to govern. There are essentially 2 main methods of legal research – doctrinal and non-doctrinal.
1. Doctrinal Method
Doctrinal or non-empirical research is a type of research wherein the subject material for the research is found in existing material such as books, articles, statutes, judgements etc. This research is carried out on a legal proposition by way of analysing the existing statutory provisions and case laws.
In this, no fieldwork is required as information is easily available. There is no need of giving training as to how to collect and analyse the data.
Usually, the process of doctrinal research is as follows:
For example, before starting my research on euthanasia, I set an initial statement/hypothesis: “Active euthanasia shall be legalised in India”. After that, I start with the research. I collect and analyse the data. With this, I can finally prove or disprove the statement I gave earlier, by giving reasons.
Conclusions and Suggestions – given based on the hypothesis. The merit of this method is that it is fast and flexible. It helps in providing a solution when there is ambiguity in interpretation. The demerits of this method are that it is limited in its scope as it does not analyse the application of the law in the society, as we are using just existing information. If there is limited information available on a new area or judgement, you may reach the wrong conclusion.
2. Non-Doctrinal Method
Non-doctrinal or empirical research is where research is carried out by collecting or gathering information by a first-hand/direct/original study. It relies on experiences or observations rather than theoretical aspects. Thus, it is also known as an experimental type of research. In this type of research, the researcher attempts to investigate the effects of the functioning of law in society.
Fieldwork is an important factor in non-doctrinal research. It is broader in perspective as it is concerned with people and society. The advantage of this method is that it is more accurate and creates real change.
While Doctrinal and Non-Doctrinal are the methods of research which depend on the kind of sources used to carry out the research, the type of research is the way in which the actual analysis of the research question is done.
1. Comparative Research
Comparative legal research is when you compare the laws of one country with another country, or from one region to another. The main aim of this is to try to find the most suitable model for your own country in par with the global standards. Even a country’s legal system is the result of comparative research.
2. Critical Research
In critical research, the main purpose is to suggest legal reforms in a given subject area. You are basically criticising the law, explaining what it should be and how it can be improved. The necessary material for this type of research is obtained from statutes, judgements and academic writings. Public opinions play a very important rule in this type of research. Non-doctrinal research (explained later in this article) places more emphasis on public opinions so they are more useful in critical research.
In order to understand the difference between a research method and the type of research once and for all, let us consider an example:
