Compromis: Case Concerning the Zetian Provinces (Ardenia v. Rigalia)
Topics: Drone Strikes, Use of Force, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Freedom of Religious Expression
Location: Capitol Hilton, Washington, D.C.
Dates: March 20-26, 2011
Jessup World Cup Champion: University of Sydney (Australia)
Team Members - Patrick Bateman, Christopher Beshara, Glenn Kembrey, Chelsea Tabart, Patrick Wall
Coach - Natalie Zerial, Tim Stephens
Runner Up: Columbia University (United States)
Team Members - Jacob Johnston, Akshaya Kumar, James Wigginton, Jennifer Lim, Benjamin Schrier
Coach - Elisabeth Page, Ricardo Chirinos, Viren Mascarenhas, Lori Damrosch, Kevin Lin
Final Round Judges
H.E. Thomas Buergenthal - Former Judge, International Court of Justice
Claudio Grossman - Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Mark Peith - Chairman, OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Transactions
Problem Authors: Leila Sadat, Larry Johnson, Nicola Bonucci
Executive Director: Will Patterson
Best Oralist (Championship Round): Jennifer Lim, Columbia University (United States)
Oralist (Preliminary Rounds): Jacob Johnston, New York University (United States)
Best Applicant Memorial (Richard R. Baxter Award): Case Western Reserve University (United States)- click here to view a copy
Best Respondent Memorial (Richard R. Baxter Award): University of Sydney (Australia)- click here to view a copy
Best Memorial - Int'l. Rounds (Alona E. Evans Award): Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Best Memorial - World Regional Rounds (Hardy C. Dillard Award): Tblisi State University (Georgia)
International Law Institute Award: Philip Gerard Dabao, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Best New Team: Norman Manley Law School (Jamaica)
Best Overall Applicant: National Law University (India)
Best Overall Respondent: Columbia Univeristy (USA)
Best Applicant Memorial: 1. Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); 2. NALSAR (India); 3. National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Best Respondent Memorial: 1. Xiamen University (China); 2. University of California - Hastings (United States); 3. Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Spirit of the Jessup Award: Kyoto University & Sophia University (Japan)
Steven M. Schneebaum Award: Ghulam Reza Mohamaddy (Afghanistan); Alejandro Turin (Argentina); Kari Kammel, Rokosh Abdullah, Bakhcha Omar (Iraq)
Pamela Young Award: Anne Holliday, Anthony Nuval, Steven Schneebaum
2011 Results:
- Top 50 Teams - International Rounds
- International Rounds Advanced Rounds
- International Rounds Top 100 Oralists
- Memorial Awards - Evans Rankings
- Memorial Awards - Dillard Rankings
- Memorial Awards - Baxter Rankings
2011 Competition Materials
- 2011 Compromis
- 2011 Compromis (French)
- 2011 Compromis (Arabic)
- 2011 Corrections & Clarifications
- 2011 Corrections & Clarifications (French)
- 2011 Official Rules
- International Rounds Program
First Batch of Basic Materials
Below is a list of the first batch of Basic Materials provided in connection with the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
The authors of the 2011 Jessup Compromis have selected these materials with the expectation that the materials will prove interesting and enlightening in the context of the current year's problem. Inclusion of any particular text in the Basic Materials does not entail that the content of the text is binding as international law or reflects current prevailing theory or practice. Please note that teams are NOT required to use these materials. They are being provided to teams as a guide and starting point for research. As always, participants are encouraged to conduct their own research outside of the scope of these Basic Materials.
- Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
- Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions
- Additional Protocol 2 to the Geneva Conventions
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 56/83, Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts (2002), and ILC Draft Articles on State Responsbility w/ Commentaries
- OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related documents
- The OECD Declaration and Decisions on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises and commentaries
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, Addendum, Study on targeted killings
Second Batch of Basic Materials
Below is a list of the second batch of Basic Materials provided in connection with the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
The authors of the 2011 Jessup Compromis have selected these materials with the expectation that the materials will prove interesting and enlightening in the context of the current year's problem. Inclusion of any particular text in the Basic Materials does not entail that the content of the text is binding as international law or reflects current prevailing theory or practice. Please note that teams are NOT required to use these materials. They are being provided to teams as a guide and starting point for research. As always, participants are encouraged to conduct their own research outside of the scope of these Basic Materials.
These links are not hosted on ILSA's website.
- International Committee of the Red Cross, Customary International Humanitarian Law Database (Link Updated 12/18/10)
- General Assembly Resolution 3314 (1974)
- Prosecutor v. Boskoski and Tarculovski, Case No. IT-04-82-T, Trial Chamber Judgment, 10 July 2008
- Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda (Armed Activities in the Territory of the Congo), Merits, 2005 ICJ, and Separate Opinions of Judges Simma, Kooijmans, and Elaraby
- Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ, and Separate Opinion of Judge Higgins
- Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), Judgment, 2003 ICJ
- Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), 1984 ICJ
- Blanco v. Nicaragua, Comm. No. 328/1988 20, Hum. Rts. Comm. (1988)
- Sahin v. Turkey, App. No. 44774/98, 2005-XI Eur. Ct. H.R. 173
- Dogru v. France, App. No. 27058/05, 49 Eur. H.R. Rep. 8
- UK House of Lords, R (on the application of Corner House Research and others)(Respondents) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office (Appellant) (Criminal Appeal from Her Majesty s High Court of Justice), [2008] UKHL 60 (BAE Systems)
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 22, Article 18 (Forty-eighth session, 1993), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1 at 35 (1994)
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 18, Non-discrimination (Thirty-seventh session, 1989), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1 at 26 (1994)
- Milanovic, Marko, From Compromise to Principle: Clarifying the Concept of State Jurisdiction in Human Rights Treaties, Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 8, 2008
- Scharf, Michael P., Seizing the Grotian Moment : Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change (April 12, 2010). Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 43, p. 439, 2010; Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-19
- Melzer, Nils, Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law, International Committee of the Red Cross, 2009
- Cannizzaro, Enzo, Contextualizing proportionality: jus ad bellum and jus in bello in the Lebanese war, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 864 (2006)
- Sassoli, Marco, Transnational Armed Groups and International Humanitarian Law, Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research Occasional Paper Series, Harvard University, Winter 2006
- Rose-Ackerman, Susan, and Billa, Benjamin, "Treaties and National Security" Faculty Scholarship Series (2008)
- Howard, David and Wiygul, Elisa, FCPA Compliance: The Vanishing Facilitating Payments Exception? Dechart On Point, April 2010
