Amity Quiz on Constitutional Law, 2014

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Amity Law School, Noida added a new feather to its cap by organising the 3rd edition of Quiz on Constitutional Law at Amity Campus, Sector- 125, Noida wherein 250 budding lawyers of ALS, Noida participated from all semesters & courses on the 26th of August.

Registration in progress

Welcoming the young minds, Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar, Director, Amity Law School addressed the gathering by saying that the constitution of the country forms the bed rock of nation building process and has a pivotal role to play in regulation of the main organs of the country namely Legislation, Executive and Judiciary. Therefore, it is imperative for the ones associated with judicial system to be well versed with the constitutional law and the quiz was organized to serve the purpose of encouraging the understanding of the Constitution of India among future of the country.

Director Sir addressing the gathering 

The Compère- Ms. Mehaq Rao

The 90 minutes quiz tested the knowledge of the participants about Constitutional Law, its various Articles, Doctrines, Preamble, Amendments and related Case studies, through various Objective type questions. This year the uniqueness of the event was the mass participation from the First year breaking the barriers of being newbie's in the profession. The quiz saw a close fight among the top prospective experts in the final battle to prove their flair. The intensity of the competition reached new heights as the results were declared. 

Tanisha J. Munir (9th Semester, B.A. LL.B) bagged the First Prize of the competition & was awarded the Nani Palkiwala Award for her excellence.

Shivanghi Parihar (9th Semester, B.A. LL.B) won the H.M. Seervai Award (Second Prize).

Rohan Sharma (5th Semester, B.Com LL.B) took the B.R. Ambedkar Award (Third Prize). 

Tanya Jain (9th Semester, BBA LL.B) was given the H.R. Khanna Award(Fourth Prize).

All the winners were given medals, books & cash prize for their hard work & dedication. Special prizes were also given to all the individual toppers from each batch as a mark of appreciation for their efforts:

Unnati from First year 

Jyotsna Pandey from Second year

Yogesh Hemnani from Third year 

Nidhi Saroj from Fourth Year

Arshit Anand from Fifth Year

All the the winners of the quiz were felicitated during the Valediction Ceremony by Dr. S.K. Singh, Dean Faculty of Law, Amity Law School, Noida. He applauded the novel way of making students practically know about the Constitution as the Quiz comprehensively covered each and every aspect of the Constitutional Law, testing the in-depth knowledge of the budding lawyers & the present generation of lawyers has a great responsibility to rescue the system from the shortcomings which are affecting the smooth functioning of the system.

Dean Sir encouraging the efforts of the students

The vote of thanks was given by Dr. Shefali Raizada on the successful completion of the event praising the wonderful organising commitee of Ms. Bhavna Batra, Ms. Sheetel Singh, Hitesh Bhatt, Mehaq Rao, Naman Jain, Arzoo Raj, Prateek Bansal, Rasna Kalkat, Sakshi Chauhan, Ragini, Raghav, Manmeet & guidance by Avinash KR.

The Vote of Thanks by Dr. Raizada

                                                   The Dedicated Faculties In-Charge

The Hardworking Organizing Team

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Photography & Event Coverage by: Shivamm Singh & Raghav Bansal

Freshers Party

Greetings......  this is to inform that 27th of August has been decided as the Freshers for the batch of 2014-2019. 2nd year students being the organising batch for the freshers event SHALL pay Rs. 200 to their class coordinators. The name of all the class coordinators are as follows:

1.B.com - Saksham Grover

2.BBA - Aditya Utk Gauri

3.BA sec A - Shreyika Walia

4.BA sec B - Shivani

5.BA sec C - Yuvika Saigal

For any queries please contact your class coordinator or for further assistance contact the undersigned:

Ekita Gupta Akshay Abrol

Conveners

Cultural society

Amity Law School

Noida

Notice for New Courses

A few significant changes have been introduced that impact the students as indicated below. These come into effect with the forthcoming academic session starting in July, 2014.

Students would need to exercise option to select any two of the three courses below for the semesters concerned.

9^th Semester

a) Intellectual Property Law

b) Telecommunication Laws

c) Law, Poverty & Development

7^th Semester

a) Legislative Drafting

b) Women & Criminal Law

c) Interpretation of Statutes

In addition to the above, the students of Sixth semester and Above would need to select any one of the two baskets given below in which they would be taught the subjects semester-wise contained in that basket.

a) Business Law

b) Intellectual Property Law

The students can now change their foreign language, if they so want, and select any of the following each year. These are of one credit each per semester. Those who wish to continue with the same foreign languages may do so. 

1. French      )

2. German     )        Five Year

3. Hindi         )

Next, the students would have to opt for one of the two open electives of one credit each.

a)   Sports

b)   Cultural

The session timings now would be as follows. The exact time table would be available on Amizone.

SESSION  SCHEDULE – AUUP, NOIDA	​	​
SESSION NAME	TIME FROM	TIME TO
SESSION 0	08:20	9:10
SESSION 1	09:15	10:05
SESSION 2	10:10	11:00
SESSION 3	11:05	11:55
SESSION 4	12:00	12:50
SESSION 5	12:55	13:45
SESSION 6	13:50	14:40
SESSION 7	14:45	15:35
SESSION 8	15:40	16:30
SESSION 9	16:35	17:25
SESSION 10	17:30	18:20
SESSION 11	18:25	19:15
SESSION 12	19:20	20:10​

Top Ranking among the Law Colleges in India

We are proud to share that Amity Law School, Noida has being ranked at Number 11 in the overall ranking of top 35 Law Colleges in India. The ranking was carried out and published in THE WEEK in their June 22 ,2014 issue on Page 50.
Congratulations to all the Faculty, Staff Colleagues and Students whose contribution keeps us moving ahead. Cheeeeeeers. 

Lex Contractus, 2014 WINNERS

The result of the Lex Contractus Moot Competition, 2014 are:

WINNERS- Aastha Anu, Divya Samuel, Kislay Raj

RUNNERS UP- Arushi Gupta, Karishma Batra

BEST MEMORIAL- Arushi Gupta, Karishma Batra

BEST SPEAKER- Karishma Batra

BEST RESEARCHER- Nikunj Rakyan

Heartiest Congratulations to all the Winners!!!! A brilliant effort by all the participating teams who experienced and were exposed to the Competitive Mooting Culture followed in ALS, Noida. Hope to see more participation in future events of the Society.
HAPPY MOOTING!!!!

The felicitation ceremony for the competition shall be conducted on 2nd April at 12:00 p.m. in the Moot Court Hall. The prizes for all the winners and participation certificates shall be given out in the ceremony. All the participants have to be present to receive the participation certificates. All the working members of Moot Court Society are also expected to be there and in case of failure to do so must show cause by an email to mcs.alsnoida@gmail.com.

LEX CONTRACTUS Quarter Final Results, 2014

The Moot Court Society organized the annual edition of 'Lex Contractus Intra Moot Court Competition,2014' on 24th March. The In-house Moot Competition which was especially designed for all first years and first timers from rest of the semester saw a participation from 14 teams. The Moot proposition was based on the issues of Law of Contracts.
The Preliminary & Quarter Final Rounds were held today where the teams battled it out to qualify for the Top 4 prestige spots. The following teams have QUALIFIED for the Semi-Final rounds to be held on 27th March(Thursday):
1. Team A2
2. Team A5
3. Team A6
4. Team B9
A Researcher's Test was held before the Oral rounds to select the Top 8 researcher's who would compete to win the 'Best Researcher' award.

Congratulations to the selected teams & All the very best for the Final Laps.
A brilliant effort by all the participating teams who experienced and were exposed to the Competitive Mooting Culture followed in ALS, Noida. Hope to see more participation in future events of the Society.
HAPPY MOOTING!!!!

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Posted & Covered by Ronil Goger

Lex Contractus, 2014

It is our pleasure to inform all students that we are back with our annual edition of 'Lex Contractus Intra Moot Court Competition' which has been scheduled to be held from March 24th to 25th, 2014. 

This in house Moot Court Competition has been especially designed for all first years (irrespective of whether they have participated in external moots) and first timers from rest of the semester, i.e., 4th to 8th semester (only those who have never participated in moot courts outside the college). The same will stand as an eligibility criteria for this Moot.The competition shall be conducted on the basis of team evaluation, the details regarding which have been specified in Clause 2 of the Rules. Each team will be required to submit their memorandums/ written submissions prior to their oral arguments before the Moot Court. A copy of sample memorandums shall be mailed to all the participants for reference.

Interested teams are required to intimate via email to mcs.alsnoida@gmail.com latest by midnight on Friday 21st March, 2014. The details of team composition, Name, Semester, Contact number, Position, i.e., speaker or researcher must be specified.
Kindly note that orientations and workshops shall be organised by the Moot Court Society from Thursday onwards depending upon the strength of prospective participants for the purpose of detailed explanation of moot problem, marshalling of facts, understanding of the issues involved, and reference for relevant material. The most probable session shall be conducted on Thursday. 

Warm Regards,

Tanisha Jehangir Munir
Convener
Moot Court Society

Rules for the Competition

Moot Problem

Victory in 4th National Geeta Law College Moot Court Competition, 2014

We are proud to inform that a moot team comprising of Apeksha Chauhan(2nd year), Diksha Chandok and Adeet Dobhal(1st year) have won the RUNNERS UP position in the 4th National Geeta Law College Moot Court Competition, 2014 at Panipat. Heartiest congratulations to the team and we wish them success for all future endeavours. 
HAPPY MOOTING!!!!!

The Winning Team with Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar