NLUO to organise 2nd Public Health Law National Moot Court Competition, 2022

National Law University Odisha is all set to organise the 2nd NLUO-PHFI Public Health Law National Moot Court Competition, 2022, from July 7, 2022, to July 10, 2022.

The Centre for Public Health Law of National Law University (NLU) Odisha in association with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is conducting the "2nd NLUO PHFI Public Health Law National Moot Court Competition" from July 7th to 10th, 2022.  

The institute has said in its notification that it is expecting participation from law colleges and universities from across the country.

The official notification reads, "National Law University Odisha, Cuttack takes pride in pioneering the development and teaching of ‘Public Health Law’ as a specialised course in India. We offer a streamlined study of ‘Public Health Law’ as a seminar course, away from the shadow of Constitutional Law, Medicine and Law and Bioethics. While the Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on just the subject there is a need for broader engagement with administrators, academicians, lawyers, and law students across the country to critically analyse the role of law in making health a realizable goal and ensuring distributive fairness in the allocation of critical health infrastructure."

"What better way to do it and cudgel the young minds than a moot court competition? So, with an aim to expand our reach to law students across the country and make them think and research about various nitty-gritties of byzantine legal rules and principles that form the bedrock of the public health apparatus we are organising this 2nd PHFI-NLUO Public Health Law Moot. The purpose of this moot is to armour budding lawyers with research skills and arguments on the tensions between civil liberties and states powers and duties with respect to tobacco control," added the notification.

All participants will be presented with E-Certificates of Participation and all the winners of awards will be presented with E-Certificates of Merit and a cash prize in addition to E-Certificates of Participation. The winners will get prize money awards of INR 21,000, best speaker to get INR 10,000, Runners up to get INR 15,000 and best memorial to get INR 10,000.

About NLUO's 1st Public Health Law National Moot Court Competition

It was a stellar success with the participation of 68 teams from across the country. From North India, the teams were from Kashmir (Central University of Kashmir) to Kerala (NUALS, Kochi and GLC, Trivandrum) in the South, Gujarat in the West [GNLU, Gujarat] to Bengal [NUJS] in the East. The teams represented National Law Universities, Central and State Government Law Department, Private Law Universities, and law colleges (both urban and local).

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