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Problem: The Case Concerning the Helian Hyacinth (State of Adawa v. Republic of Rasasa)
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.
Date: 25 April 2020
Problem Authors: Amir Farhadi, Tim McKenzie, Beatrice Walton
Executive Director: Lesley A. Benn
Alona E. Evans Award for Best Memorials at the White & Case International Rounds:
1. Universidad de Chile - #383 (Chile)
2. Universidad de Buenos Aires - #275 (Argentina)
3. Eötvös Loránd University - #403 (Hungary)
4. MGIMO University - #188 (Russia)
4. Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” - #197 (Bulgaria)
6. Royal University of Law and Economics - #535 (Cambodia)
7. University of Padjadjaran - #463 (Indonesia)
7. National Research University Higher School of Economics - #116 (Russia)
9. Kuwait International Law School - #228 (Kuwait)
9. University of Toronto - #418 (Canada)
11. Saint-Petersburg State University - #255 (Russia)
11. Sophia University - #349 (Japan)
13. University of Oxford - #281 (United Kingdom)
14. American University - #108 (USA)
14. Renmin University of China - #601 (China)
14. University of Maribor - #699 (Slovenia)
17. University of Western Ontario - #322 (Canada)
17. Airlangga University - #378 (Indonesia)
19. Peking University - #162 (China)
19. University of Washington - #172 (USA)
19. Cornell University - #301 (USA)
19. University of Sydney - #334 (Australia)
23. Cairo University (English Section) - #520 (Egypt)
23. NALSAR School of Law - #703 (India)
25. National University of Singapore - #222 (Singapore)
26. Saints Cyril and Methodius University - #303 (North Macedonia)
26. Gujarat National Law University - #389 (India)
28. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - #559 (Greece)
29. Faculdade Baiana de Direito e Gestão - #185 (Brazil)
29. University of Helsinki - #313 (Finland)
29. University of International Business and Economics - #567 (China)
29. Jagiellonian University Cracow - #575 (Poland)
33. The WB National University of Juridical Sciences - #124 (India)
34. Case Western Reserve University - #249 (USA)
35. Belarusian State University – Faculty of International Relations - #316 (Belarus)
35. Comenius University - #468 (Slovakia)
37. Yaroslav Mudriy National Law University - #106 (Ukraine)
38. Auckland University - #526 (New Zealand)
39. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - #155 (Germany)
40. University of Pretoria - #189 (South Africa)
40. Università degli Studi di Milano - #759 (Italy)
Hardy C. Dillard Awards for Best Combined Memorials (National Rounds):
1. Universidad de Buenos Aires - #275 (Argentina)
2. George Washington University - #268 (USA)
3. Universidad de Chile - #383 (Chile)
4. Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München - #456 (Germany)
5. Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” - #197 (Bulgaria)
6. Royal University of Law and Economics - #535 (Cambodia)
7. University of Padjadjaran - #463 (Indonesia)
8. Universitat Pompeu Fabra - #359 (Spain)
8. University of Toronto - #418 (Canada)
10. City University of Hong Kong - #503 (Hong Kong China)
Richard R. Baxter Award for Best Applicant Memorial: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) - view
Richard R. Baxter Award for Best Respondent Memorial: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria) - view
Baker McKenzie Award - Best Memorial from a New Team: University of Mandalay (Myanmar)
Best Overall Memorials at the 2020 White & Case International Rounds:
Applicant - Peking University (China)
Respondent - Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Spirit of the Jessup Award: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Steven M. Schneebaum Award: Volodymyr Solohub and Nikolay Yurlov (Ukraine), Giovanny Vega Barbosa (Colombia), and Winnie Wat (Hong Kong China)
Pamela M. Young Award: Michael Peil and Professor Zhu Wenqi
2020 Competition Materials
First Batch of Basic Materials
- UN Charter
- ICJ Statute
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties
- Rome Statute
- Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
- Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
- Draft articles on Succession of States in respect of Treaties with commentaries
- Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia), 1997 I.C.J. 7
- Russia - Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit, Panel Report, WT/DS512/R (5 April 2019)
- The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, No. ICC-02/05-01/09 OA2, Judgment in the Jordan Referral re Al-Bashir Appeal (6 May 2019)
- Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2002, p. 3.
- Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (Qatar v. UAE), Order of 14 June 2019, Dissenting Opinion of Judge ad hoc Cot
- Draft Report of the 2019 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
- The practice of the United Nations, the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency concerning their status, privileges and immunities: study prepared by the Secretariat, UN Doc A/CN.4/L.118 and Add.1 and 2, YBILC, 1967, II
- Seventh Report on Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction, by Concepcion Escobar Hernandez, Special Rapporteur
- Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization, Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Andreas Zimmermann, State Succession in Treaties, Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
- Marco Sassoli, Autonomous Weapons and International Humanitarian Law: Advantages, Open Technical Questions and Legal Issues to be Clarified, 90 INT’L L. STUD. 308 (2014)
- Neil Davison, A Legal Perspective: Autonomous Weapon Systems Under International Humanitarian Law, UNODA Occasional Papers, No. 30
Second Batch of Basic Materials
- Oil Platforms (Iran v. United States), Merits, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2003, p. 161
- Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1996, p. 226
- Decision on the Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Regarding Omar Al Bashir's Arrest and Surrender to the Court, Pre-Trial Chamber II, ICC-02/05-01/09 (April 9, 2014).
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 36, CCPR/C/GC/36, 30 October 2018
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, A/HRC/23/47, 9 April 2013
- Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials Adopted at the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
- UN Security Council Resolution 95 (1951)
- "Note verbale to the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, regarding the arrest of a member of one delegation to a meeting of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, held in Austria from 6 to 15 June 2007", 19 June 2007, United Nations Juridical Yearbook, 2007, pp. 401-403.
- P Dumberry, "State Succession to Bilateral Treaties: A Few Observations on the Incoherent and Unjustifiable Solution Adopted for Secession and Dissolution of States under the 1978 Vienna Convention", 28 Leiden Journal of International Law, (2014), p. 13-31
- Council of Europe, Ad Hoc Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI), Preliminary Draft Report on the Pilot Project of the Council of Europe on State Practice Regarding State Succession and Issues of Recognition, 9 September 1998
- Giorgio Gaja, "Relationship of the ICJ with Other International Courts and Tribunals", in Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, Andreas Zimmermann, Christian J. Tams, Karin Oellers-Frahm and Christian Tomuschat (eds), 3rd edition, 2019, pp. 647-660.
- Suzanne Bastid, The Cease-Fire, in General Report of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress held at The Hague 22-25 May 1973
- Iryna Bogdanova, Adjudication of the GATT security clause: to be or not to be, this is the question, World Trade Institute Working Paper 01/2019
- Tim Graewart, Conflicting Laws and Jurisdictions in the Dispute Settlement Process of Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO, 1(2) Contemp. Asia Arb.J. 287 (2008).
- Caroline Henckels, Overcoming Jurisdictional Isolationism at the WTO–FTA Nexus: A Potential Approach for the WTO, 19 Eur. J. Int’l L.571 (2008)
- Kyung Kwak & Gabrielle Marceau, Overlaps and Conflicts of Jurisdiction between the World Trade Organization and Regional Trade Agreements, 41 Can. Y.B. Int'l L.83 (2003)
- Brian Mercurio, Why Compensation cannot replace trade retaliation in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding, 8 World Trade Rev.1 (2009)
- Joost Pauwelyn & Luiz Eduardo Salles, Forum Shopping before International Tribunals: (Real) Concerns, (Im)Possible Solutions, 42 Cornell Int’l L.J. 77 (2009)
- Arman Sarvarian, Codifying the Law of State Succession: A Futile Endeavour?
2020 Rules Supplements
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