Jessup Competition 2023

Did 2015 problem have specific major treaty interpretation issue? Answer: Almost problem specific, but arguments in memo & authorities for judges pp21- might be useful as a review...

How much does the LoAC apply to 'irregular' hostilities btwn R & 'UAC'?

Does UAC fighters not wearing uniforms affect standard applied to R 'police' force?

can any actions in this 2023 problem be classified as countermeasures?

Sanctions literature?

from 2015 problem: what is the Corfu Channel burden shifting test?

from 2015 problem: Barcelona Traction case, which is included in this year's 'Public Competition Materials' list

Use the resources! Will save time and improve performance

The pdfs are: ...  impt enough to list all?

Jessup White & Case FAQs

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/article/jessup-faqs

Jessup Judge Training Guide, 5  short videos

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/video/jessup-judge-training-guide

Judging the Jessup—Oral Round Scoresheet, 6 videos for main judged areas

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/video/judging-jessup-oral-round-scoresheet

From: https://www.ilsa.org/jessup-history/ with listings from 1960 inception

2022: The Jessup 2022 Problem will concern foreign election interference, human rights on the Internet, data theft, and the secession of part of a nation’s territory.

2021: Topics: The 2021 Jessup Problem concerned a global pandemic and the obligations and responses of States with response to the outbreak. It also involved questions of the jurisdiction of the Court, a claim for political asylum, and State responsibility for shooting down a civilian aircraft.

2020: Topics: The 2020 Jessup Problem challenges teams to address the legal issues surrounding treaty succession, fully autonomous weapons systems, government ministers accused of war crimes, and the potentially conflicting jurisdiction of the ICJ and the WTO.

2019: Topics: The appropriation of traditional knowledge for commercial purposes, state responsibility for corporate environmental degradation and human rights violations, and majestic herds of migratory yaks.

Procedure laid out at ILSA Announces Jessup 2023 Problem Request for Proposals

December middle, Request for Proposals made

March, early, proposals due

"Each year, the Jessup Problem presents a dispute between fictional countries, to be argued before the International Court of Justice. Proposals should take the form of high-level outlines of legal issues. They may include a short summary of facts and should consist of no more than 1,500 words. ILSA accepts proposals from solo authors or from groups of authors. Proposals should identify four interesting, important, and timely issues of international law, along with any critical sub-issues or secondary issues, to be addressed in the Problem. The issues should be balanced, legally and morally, permitting both sides to present strong arguments on each."

April, late, proposal chosen

April late to August, author prepares initial draft of the Problem, with full factual development, & later refines till Problem finalized

September, early, Problem released - made public

Early October, 1st batch of public docs released

Later, ??,  2nd batch of public docs released

link to competition site

steps of competition

problem released

first batch of docs release & their type

2nd batch of docs release & their type

memorials by parties

oral arguments procedures

schedule deadlines - key dates

general info re regional and national rounds

dates for advancement to international rounds

what's required in memorial

places to view memorial samples in addition to Hein?

Regional > National > International Rounds

guide to judging memorials at ilsa.org

supposedly the 2022 regional qualifying competition consisted of four rounds...is it single or double or other elimination or top qualifier after round robin

how much step by step suggestions?

research order

how to password guide if additional local docs by profs or members posted

do members use Slack or other program where they'd prefer doc repository