Jessup Competition Resources: 2025: Home

The Jessup 2025 Problem presents the following issues: (1) the rights and obligations of other members of the international community when two persons claim to be the legitimate president of a state; (2) invocation of immunity for government officials accused of grave violations of human rights; (3) the legal consequences of receding coastlines for the maritime zones of coastal states; and (4) the interpretation of the compromissory clause in a treaty creating a regional organization.

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• Jessup 2025 Schedule

Updated October 9, 2024

These materials are intended to give teams a strong foundation with which to begin their research. Teams are not limited to these materials and are strongly encouraged to go beyond them in their research for the Jessup problem. ILSA may update this list on an ad hoc basis.

International Agreements

• Statute of the International Court of Justice
• United Nations Charter
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• ICCPR
• ICESCR
• UNCLOS
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

ICJ and PCIJ Cases

• SS ‘Lotus’ (France v Turkey), Judgment, 7 September 1927
• Phosphates in Morocco (Italy v France) (Preliminary Objections), Judgement, 14 June 1938
• Colombian Peruvian asylum case (Colombia v. Peru), Judgment, November 20th, 1950
• Right of Passage over Indian Territory (Portugal v. India) (Merits), Judgment, 12 April 1960
• Arrest Warrant of 1I April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium), Judgment, 14 February 2002 
• Certain Property (Liechtenstein v Germany) (Preliminary Objections), Judgment, 10 February 2005
• Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), Judgment, 13 July 2009
• Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy, Greece intervening), Judgment, 3 February 2012
• Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal), Judgment, 20 July 2012
• Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. The Russian Federation) (Preliminary Objections), 2 February 2024

Other Courts and Adjudicative Bodies

• Aguilar-Amory and Royal Bank of Canada Claims (Great Britain v Costa Rica) (1923) I UNRIAA 375
• Regina v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3) [2000] 1 AC 147
• Zitha and Zitha v Mozambique, African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Comm No. 361/08 (1 April 2011).
• The Determination of the Office of the Prosecutor on the Communication Received in Relation to Egypt’ (Press release, 8 May 2014) (ICC-OTP-20130508-PR1003)

Publicists

• Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) (2001) with Commentary
• Report of the International Law Association, International Law and Sea-Level Rise (2024)
• ILC, Report of the International Law Commission (2022), UN doc A/77/10, draft articles on immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction adopted on first reading with commentaries
• 2023 Report of the Study Group of the International Law Commission on “Sea-level rise in relation to international law”
• ILC, Conclusions on the Identification of Customary International Law (2018) and Commentary
• ILC, Conclusions on Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Relation to the Interpretation of Treaties (2018) and Commentary
• Lagerwall and Hebert-Dolbec, Universal Jurisdiction, Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, July 2022
• Pavlopoulos, The Identity of Governments in International Law (OUP 2024) ch 4.
• Tomuschat, Christian, ‘Article 36’, in Andreas Zimmermann, and others (eds), The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, 3rd Edition, Oxford Commentaries on International Law (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic).

Updated October 9, 2024