Dr DY Patil College of Law 's Lincoln-Douglas Debate Competition [Cash Prize Worth Rs 6K]: Register by Mar 3

About the DY Patil College of Law

Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Law; a premier educational institute that produces Advocates, not mere law graduates. The college strives for its students to achieve holistic development under the guidance of its experienced and dedicated faculty members and by providing students the platform to organize and participate in extracurricular activities that aim at developing their knowledge base and practical skills. The college consistently works towards enhancing the quality of advocacy along with ways to extend the services of free legal aid to the less fortunate sections of society.

About the Professional Development Committee

This committee is entrusted with the responsibility to scheme out extracurricular activities which will embolden and ameliorate the professional skills of the students.

The committee aims at providing a platform through which students can begin their journey towards polishing their oratory and writing skills along with closely understanding the legal community.

They aspire to actualize our ideas into successful events through which participants, as well as the members of the committee, will gain enriching legal knowledge and make cherishable memories.

About the Competition

Dr DY Patil College of Law of organizing a Lincoln-Douglas Debate Competition on a topic around Health and Education Spending and Military Spending in India, scheduled to be held on Mar 11-12, 2022. Through the means of this competition, the focus will be on the conflicting values of social and philosophical issues, for example, by examining questions of morality, justice, democracy, etc.

Two debaters arguing for and against a resolution will be evaluated by the coaches whether or not certain actions, or states of affairs, are good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral.

There will fixtures will be decided randomly between two participants.
The format of this debate would be 1v1 i.e both the participants will be expected to make arguments in favor and against the topic with the option of cross- examination and rebuttal their opponent once.
No use of unparliamentary language would be accepted, the participants are expected to treat each other and the judges with the utmost respect.
The topic of the debate would be based on a topic of current affairs and would be released with the fixture list in order to give relevant preparation time to the participants.

Debate Rules and Format

There will be two phases of debate per round between the two participants.
In the first phase, Person A will make arguments in favor of the topic and Person B would make arguments against the topic.
In the second phase, Person b will make arguments in favor of the topic, and Person A would make arguments against the topic.
In each round, there will be four different parts.
- Part 1 would be wherein the respective participant would make an affirmative case or arguments in favor for a total of 2 mins.
- In Part 2, the person who is supposed to make arguments against the topic would cross-examine in form of questions for a total of 1 min.
- Part 3 would consist of the statement given by the person against the topic for 2 mins.
- And finally, Part 4 would be the closing statements made by the person in favor of the topic for 2 mins.

Phase 1

Person A Makes Affirmative Case (or) For Arguments for 2 Minutes —> Person B Cross Examines Person A in the Form of Questions for 1 min —> Person B makes a Negative Construction (or) Speaks Against the topic and makes rebuttals against Person A’s argument for 2 minutes —> Person A makes closing statements reinforcing his/her arguments for a total of 2 minutes.

Phase 2

(Note: The Time Limits and Rounds will be changed for Elimination Rounds)