Chandigarh University Hosts International Moot Court ‘Juris Nexus 2026’, Bringing Global Legal Minds Together Debate Emerging Legal Challenges on AI & IPR in Digital Age
Chandigarh University Hosts International Moot Court ‘Juris Nexus 2026’, Bringing Global Legal Minds Together Debate Emerging Legal Challenges on AI & IPR in Digital Age
Bringing together budding legal minds,
judges, eminent legal professionals, researchers and academicians from across
the globe, the three-day ‘Juris Nexus 2026’, India’s biggest International Moot
Court Competition on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR), kicked off at Chandigarh University, providing law students with
a platform to gain real-world exposure to emerging legal challenges of the
digital age through simulated judicial proceedings, academic exchange and
deliberations on cutting-edge legal questions shaping national and international
legal frameworks. With a prize pool of over Rs 1.8 lakh, Juris Nexus 2026
features 112 teams from 20 States and six countries representing 13 national
law universities, 27 state universities and 67 private higher educational
institutions.
The dignitaries who graced the inauguration
ceremony of ‘Juris Nexus 2026’, organised by the University Institute of Legal
Studies (UILS), Chandigarh University included chief guest, Justice Rajesh
Bindal, former Supreme Court Judge and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court, Justice Sant Parkash, Chairperson, Punjab
State Human Rights Commission, Prof (Dr) SS Sehgal, Vice-Chancellor, Chandigarh
University, Prof (Dr) Amar Pal Singh, Vice-Chancellor, RMNLU, Lucknow and Prof
(Dr) Simranjit Kaur Gill, Executive Director, UILS.
The 112 participating teams represented 20
States -- Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
and West Bengal. Besides India, five countries including United Kingdom,
Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, and South Africa participated in the Moot Court
Competition.
The Christ University’s team, comprising of
Aditi Shashikumar, Vaishnavi Alva and Sharadhi S Rao, secured first position to
win Rs 1 lakh prize of ‘Juris Nexus 2026’. The Regional Centre of Panjab
University, Ludhiana, team, comprising of Gunitinder Kaur, Harveen Kaur and
Neha, emerged as the runners-up team to win a prize of Rs 50 thousand. While
Bharati Vidyapeeth University’s Law Students won Best Researcher Award,
Maharashtra National Law University Pune students won Best Mooter Award and
Saveetha School of Law won Best Memorial award.
In his keynote address, Justice Rajesh
Bindal, former Supreme Court Judge and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
said, “India has largest population of Gen Z (demographic cohort of people born
roughly from 1997 to 2012) in the world as they form 28 % of country’s total
population. But our young generation should not waste their energies on
negative things because they can do wonders. Foreign powers instigate us to
fight among ourselves because they want our country should not be strong for
their own interest,”.