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LASU is Africa’s best
By Ngozi Agbo 08/12/2011
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Despite the fee crisis rocking the
Lagos State University (LASU), its
students are still among the best
in the world. Some of its law
students displayed skill and
dexterity at the Foreign Direct
Investment International
Arbitration Moot Court
Competition. They emerged the
best from Africa.
The competition, organised by
the Centre for International Legal
Studies, was held between
November 4 and 6 at the Kings
College, London. LASU
representatives were Prof
Olusegun Yerokun, Dean; Dr.
Gbadebo Olagunju, lecturer,
Department of International Law
and Jurisprudence. The counsel,
both 500-Level students, were
Chinedu Geoffrey Ihenetu and
Daniel Ogunbote.
Institutions in attendance
included University of Barcelona,
Universite Paris, I Pantheon
Sorbonne, Universidad de
Granada, Uni Curitiba, Suffolk
Silesia, Russian Academy of
Justice, Pepperdine University,
Paris Dauphine, NUJS,
Novosibirsk, Novi Sad,
Northumbria University, New
York University, Mykolas Romeris,
Minas Gerais, Mgimo, Masaryk,
Kyiv University, Kings College,
Kaplan, City University, Hong
Kong, Houston University, Charles
University, Gujarat University,
University of Belgrade,
Georgetown University, Buenos
Aires University, Belarusian
University, Boston University and
Ankara University.
The build-up to the oral finals
included a written submission by
more than 200 universities
across the world. LASU was
among the 36 invited for the
finals. The LASU team competed
against teams from Pepperdine
University (US), Russian Academy
of Justice (Russia), Buenos Aires
University (Argentina) and
Gujarat University (India).
Though the team lost at Round
16, just before the quarter finals,
LASULAWS was crowned “The
Best Team in Africa” and “14th”
in the world. The counsel made
the university, Nigeria and Africa
proud by beating their American,
Asian and European
counterparts. Kings College,
London won the competition.
The founder of the competition,
Prof Martin Hunter, whose book
on International Investment
Arbitration is widely regarded in
Europe as the “Bible” of this
unique area of law, praised the
LASU students.
Remarkably, in the World Student
Arbitrator Rankings, Geoffrey
was listed 41st and Daniel, 78th
out of 107 students.
Geoffrey told CAMPUSLIFE that he
was happy to fly the Nigerian
flag. He called for more funding
of such competitions.
“We are calling on the
government, organisations and
individuals to put more into
competitions like this so as to
help wake law students from
slumber and propel them to legal
research”.

FDI Moot Teams

Ankara Bar Association-Ankara University  Mosler
Belarusian State University  Visscher
Boston University, School of Law  Hackworth 
Charles University, Faculty of Law  Fleischhauer
City University of Hong Kong, School of Law  Petren
Federal University of Minas Gerais  Zoricic
Georgetown University Law Center Jennings
Gujarat National Law University Castro
Kaplan Law School  El-Erian
King's College London  Mo
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Waldock
Lagos State University, Faculty of Law  Khan
Masaryk University, Faculty of Law Guerrero
MGIMO University Onyeama
Mykolas Romeris University  Ago
National University of Juridical Sciences Alfaro 
New York University School of Law Evensen
Novosibirsk State University  Spender
Paris Dauphine University  Lachs
Pepperdine University School of Law  Elias
Russian Academy of Justice  Morelli
Suffolk University Law School Fabela 
Uni Curitiba  Baxter
Universidad de Granada  Dillard
Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne Forster
University of Barcelona (IELPO)  Singh
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law  Badawi
University of Buenos Aires Jessup
University of Houston Law Center Tarazi
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law Rau
University of Silesia  Erskine
University of Warsaw  Gros
University of Wroclaw Alvarez
Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Law  Bengzon
Yonsei University Koo

So out of a team of 35, LASU came 34th? Not bad!

Your initial claim was that other
news outlets didn't run it and
only BAT's did so something is
fishy?

Exactly still remains the case. Answer me: Have any other news outlets reported the story or are you going to give me another moot scoresheet punctuated with empty, meaningless, childish insults?

Well as we now know, nothing
was fishy, it was all about you
and you inability to google.

Nope. As we've now come to see, thread title itself has been proven to be nothing more than a blatant lie from an overzealous news outlet with questionable motives. Cuz last time we checked, University of Chicago is still World's 14th best and NOT LASU.
Oops. If you hadn't resorted to pointless futile insults, then maybe things wouldn't have turned out this way.

I gotta say a special thank you to Loma for providing that link and effectively shooting down your empty boasts.

Of course it goes a very long way to say so. You can't stage a competition from a handful teams and then call the winner the best in the World. You're never to be taken seriously with that.

Ejine, you ever heard of the baseball world series?  A number of teams, all Americans and playing within America but titled world championship.

Anyway, everything is commercialized nowadays, including school rankings.  American or European evaluators are never ever going to put an African school as best in the World, no matter if they outperform Havard and Cambridge ad Oxford and Sorbone all put together.  Moreover, at individual level, I don't know about Europeans but I do kow that Africans are better educated than Americans, merit for merit at least in theoreticals.  If we had the materials and finaces I dont doubt that we will also outperform them in applications.  So when you hear that an African school in iternational competition was defeated to a 14th rank, I'd say subtract 10 from that to compensate for rigging and then within your own conscience be proud that they came 4th.

^^^ abegi go sleep . . . . imagine the nonsense wey dis one come dey spew now . . . . . jeezzzz . . .

@Ejine : your story would have been d/f if it was a fed univ like unilorin or unilag .i give kudos to them for making it to round 16 out of 200 schools. A new competition will hold again april next year and i belive lasu will still represent nig since they are currently the best law faculty in the country

^^ Do you have any links showing there were actually 200 schools in the competition? I mean apart from the publication you keep reposting that itself does not seem to be telling what the official site is saying of the competition.

If they said "Best in Africa", I wouldn't even argue it, although I seriously doubt it, but 14th best in the world, that got me cracking up. That means LASU is stand should to shoulder with Harvard, Colombia and Yale,

@ manny - i think d organisers actually mean the lasu team in the competition was rated 14th position since they lost in the round of remaining 16 contestants

^^^ Where did you get that story from?? This story seems to be growing different legs in just two pages.

@ kobo ' -read carefully what the writer said , ,, - 16, just before the quarter finals,
LASULAWS was crowned “The
Best Team in Africa” and “14th”
in the world. The counsel made
the university, Nigeria and Africa
proud by beating their American,
Asian and European
counterparts. Kings College,
London won the competition.
The founder of the competition,
Prof Martin Hunter, whose book
on International Investment
Arbitration is widely regarded in
Europe as the “Bible” of this
unique area of law, praised the
LASU students.

^^^ abegi go sleep . . . . imagine the nonsense wey dis one come dey spew now . . . . . jeezzzz . . .

kobo, if i catch your a s s in an alley you go holler! yeye girl!

@ kobo - quote frm thenation news - ''The build-up to the oral finals
included a written submission by
more than 200 universities
across the world. LASU was
among the 36 invited for the
finals. The LASU team competed
against teams from Pepperdine
University (US), Russian Academy
of Justice (Russia), Buenos Aires
University (Argentina) and
Gujarat University (India).
Though the team lost at Round
16, just before the quarter finals,
LASULAWS was crowned “The
Best Team in Africa” and “14th”
in the world. The counsel made
the university, Nigeria and Africa
proud by beating their American,
Asian and European
counterparts. Kings College,
London won the competition.

No! I actually meant one that we can verify. The organization's website does not seem to have anything remotely close to what you have there.

I am not a fan of the Nation, or any other Nigerian newspaper, especially when it has to do with News of some foreign event or situation. So, apart from that error riddled article, any other?  

luvola:

@ kobo - quote frm thenation news -    ''The build-up to the oral finals
included a written submission by
more than 200 universities
across the world. LASU was
among the 36 invited for the
finals. The LASU team competed
against teams from Pepperdine
University (US), Russian Academy
of Justice (Russia), Buenos Aires
University (Argentina) and
Gujarat University (India).
Though the team lost at Round
16, just before the quarter finals,
LASULAWS was crowned “The
Best Team in Africa” and “14th”
in the world. The counsel made
the university, Nigeria and Africa
proud by beating their American,
Asian and European
counterparts. Kings College,
London won the competition.

Did other law schools from Africa show up for this competition? If so, which schools? Cause I don't understand how a school can be ranked best in Africa for participating in a moot court competition, which really is not used to judge schools in that manner. Also, How can a school that came 34th be ranked 14th in the world, even if just for this moot court competition(there are several other organizations that put together moot court competitions out there too)?

luvola:

@ manny - i think d organisers actually mean the lasu team in the competition was rated 14th position since they lost in the round of remaining 16 contestants

If they specified, 14th position per the MOOT Competition, I won't stress my head about it, (not so say I am now), but for it to say 14th best law school in the world is just way off the course. Like seriously, even Georgetown law, doesn't rank 14th best in the U.S., in fact GWU Law doesn't come to the top 10 in the U.S. let alone LASU did not come anywhere close to GWU law yet they are ranked 14th best, hmm so much for biased information.

@ manny - the publisher of the the nation actually base his or her statement on the organiser's statement.the univ rep nig as a whole

^^ and the story continues to grow even more legs. Where did you get this from? LASU represented all of Nigeria? Do you have any non Nation gobble proof of this claim? I mean if you look on that list you will see that there are more than one US schools at least on the same list. How can any of them claim them to rep US

luvola:

@ manny - the publisher of the the nation actually base his or her statement on the organiser's statement.the univ rep nig as a whole

Oh well, I think that sums it all, The publisher of a newspaper is supposed to perform independent verification though before assuming for the whole nation. Anyway, it is what it is.

@ kobo - i assume lasu rep nig univ since it is the only nig univ participating in the competition , @ manny - the organiser according to the nation news said the lasu team emerged the best in africa since no african university participate in d competition. i believe some schools in africa were part of the 200 participants that started the competition but they couldnt scale through in the group stage

^^^ are you the writer of that TheNations article I ask cause you seem to believe it even though we are yet to find information to corroborate most of the claims it contains.

i am not the writer.i believe the publisher was making reference to what the organiser of the moot competition assert that based on the outcome of the competition ,lasu team was place the best in africa and ranked 14th in the world

Where did the organizer of the  moot make this assertion? Where did you find the organizer making this assertion? I mean even the TheNation article does not quote any of the organizer's nor does it mention that it got any news from anyone in authority. Geoffrey who is quoted there happens to be one of the students, so where do you get your info from please?

@ kobo - i think u should read the article again and see for your self where the organiser ranked lasu team as the best in africa. u are really stressing me here. why do u peeps hate hearing the word LASU

As 4 d effectiveness of the selection process i wouldn't comment on that just yet.
The same Lasu law dept. Claiming the best in Africa was heavily involved in collection of N30k bribe in the admission into thdt dept. In the just concluded admission excercise.
Lagos state indegenes (both real and fake) with post ume score as low as 29 were taken in place of my non-indegene sister who scored 67, now can any1 tell me how such a dept.
Can be best in the continent of Africa?
LASU is a joke ! ! !.

Negro_Ntns:

Ejine, you ever heard of the baseball world series?  A number of teams, all Americans and playing within America but titled world championship.

Anyway, everything is commercialized nowadays, including school rankings.  American or European evaluators are never ever going to put an African school as best in the World, no matter if they outperform Havard and Cambridge ad Oxford and Sorbone all put together.  Moreover, at individual level, I don't know about Europeans but I do kow that Africans are better educated than Americans, merit for merit at least in theoreticals.  If we had the materials and finaces I dont doubt that we will also outperform them in applications.  So[b] when you hear that an African school in iternational competition was defeated to a 14th rank, I'd say subtract 10 from that to compensate for rigging and then within your own conscience be proud that they came 4th[/b]. 

LMAOOOOO! Okay sir!

Meanwhile guys, this is a similar thread opened by Luvola the day before. This time, he claimed LASU was best in Africa, 7th best in the World

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-820664.0.html

@ ejine - i later said it was a mistake. the article did not say lasu is 7th best sch in the what i said was that lasu was rank the best team in africa which was based on the sch performance in the competition because they lost in the round of 16. at least we should appreciate these guys because they indirectly represent nig. gbam

now if it was one of those eastern state schools that churn out rap-ists and armed robbers that made it to the finals these ndigbo supermen would be up in our faces with all their even though the nasty non igbos try to hold us down bs

oyb:

now if it was one of those eastern state schools that churn out rap-ists and armed robbers that made it to the finals these ndigbo supermen would be up in our faces with all their even though the nasty non igbos try to hold us down bs

why calling igbos in this matter? Has any igbo guy commented on this matter? Must u always show how useless u are?

This luvola is obviously a bloody illiterate.

Since when did being rated 14th best in a competition mean being best in Africa or being 14th best in the world.

Unbelievably low level of ratiocination.

knew it was a lie