First Batch of Basic Materials Now Available

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The First Batch of Basic Materials for Jessup 2022 is now available. Jessup competitors should feel free to use these materials as they prepare their written and oral arguments.

A Second Batch is expected to be released on November 18, 2021. You can use the form below to submit your suggestions for what should be included in the Second Batch. Suggestions are due by November 8, 2021.

  1. Charter of the United Nations
  2. Statute of the International Court of Justice
  3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  4. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  5. Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (the Budapest Convention)
  6. Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
  7. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
  8. Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection
  9. Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
  10. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, 13 April 2021, A/HRC/47/25
  11. Human Rights Committee General Comment No 34
  12. Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (2015)
  13. Tallinn Manual 2.0 – Please note that this resource is available publicly only until 8 January 2022
  14. The Evidentiary Practice of the World Court’ in Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo et al. (eds), Liber Amicorum in Honour of a Modern Renaissance Man: His Excellency Gudmundur Eiríksson (Universal Law Publishing/LexisNexis 2017) 361–382
  15. Chen, S. Re-assessing the evidentiary regime of the International Court of Justice: A case for codifying its discretion to exclude evidence. (2015). International Commentary on Evidence. 13, (1), 1-40. Research Collection School Of Law
  16. Legal Frameworks for Hacking by Law Enforcement: Identification, Evaluation and Comparison of Practices, 6 April 2017
  17. Grant Gerard, Note, Botnet Mitigation and International Law, 58 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 189 (2019-2020)

Suggestions for the Second Batch of Basic Materials

The deadline for suggestions has passed.