Jessup Competition Resources: 2023: Home

• Official Home Page for the 2023 Jessup Competition

  Provides "tabs" that lead to the official schedule, rules, compromis, materials, team resources, FAQs etc.

• Official Rules

• Jessup Competitors Guide - White & Case
  Learn how to research international law, write memorials for the competition, and argue in front of the judges. On the right of the page are several PDF guides that will be very useful for coaches/trainers (including video clips).

• Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Compendium - Previous Jessup competition documents (including example memorials) can be found in the  available via HeinOnline.
• University of Minnesota – Jessup 2023 
  Contains basic international law reference materials including treatises, encyclopedias, and news sources
• Georgetown Law Foreign & International Law Research Guides 

  Over 40 research guides on a variety of foreign and international law subjects.

• Florida State University – International Moot Court Guide 

  Produced by Florida State University; Contains research tools to help students locate public international law materials

• Jessup Moot Court Competition - 21 Tips from 21 Judges Description Tips for competition from the Law blog "Inside Justice." 

  Tips for competition from the law blog "Inside Justice"

• Charter of the United Nations
• Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
• International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
• Draft Articles on the Law of Treaties (1966) With Commentaries
• Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907) (Hague Regulations), Regulation 42
• The Third Geneva Convention (GCIII), relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (1949), Arts. 3-4, 21-24, 49-57
• The Fourth Geneva Convention, relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) (GCIV), Arts. 33, 47, 49, 51-53, 55-56, 59-60, 76, 79-88
• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (API), Arts. 1, 3-4, 44-45, 48-52, 54-55, 57-58, 60, 69-70, 85-86
• Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with commentaries (2001)
• Draft articles on the effects of armed conflicts on treaties, with commentaries (2011)
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989)
• Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (2001)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947)
• Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000)
• Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Company, Ltd., ICJ Judgement (1970)
• Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), ICJ Judgement (1986)
• Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ Advisory Opinion (2004)
• Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), ICJ Judgment (2005)
• Inter American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion OC-23/17 on The Environment and Human Rights (2017)
• Prosecutor v. Prlić et al., Trial Chamber Judgment, ICTY (2013)
• Prosecutor v. Prlić et al., Appeal Chamber Judgement, ICTY (2017)
• UN General Assembly Resolutions:
  • 3281 (XXIX) Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974)
  • 60/147, Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (2005)
• Strauss, M. J. (2015). Territorial Leasing in Diplomacy and International Law. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff – available on Team Homepage
• Unilateral coercive measures: notion, types and qualification, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan (2021) 

Updated Oct. 12, 2022

November 15: Anticipated release date of Corrections and Clarifications to the Jessup Problem (usually involves a second batch of materials/sources)