Jessup 2025 Teams Crowdfunding to Attend White & Case International Rounds
A number of Jessup 2025 Teams need financial help to attend the White & Case International Rounds in Washington, DC. You can find a list of teams below that are crowdfunding to finance their trip to DC. We are asking the Jessup community to contribute what they can so that these deserving students can have the life changing experience that they have worked all year for.
- Kathmandu University School of Law (Nepal)
- Georgetown University in Qatar (Qatar)
- National Law University, Jodhpur (India)
- Nepal Law Campus (Nepal)
- New Bulgarian University (Bulgaria)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru)
- Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (India)
- Ukrainian teams – Both Teams have combined their efforts (Ukraine)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico)
- Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil)
- University of Bucharest (Romania)
- University of Carthage (Tunisia)
- University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Please consider donating if you can.
New Resource Added to Jessup 2025 Basic Materials
We’ve added a new resource to the Jessup 2025 Basic Materials. Check out Second Report on Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction by Claudio Grossman Guiloff, Special Rapporteur, A/CN.4/780 as you prepare for the White & Case International Rounds.
Jessup Song Just Dropped
Long time Friend of the Jessup, Tom Good, has composed a song for Jessup 2025. Give it a listen!
2025 ILSA / Hamilton Lugar Competition Basic Materials Revealed
These Basic 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 Competition. ILSA may update this list on an ad hoc basis. Continue reading “2025 ILSA / Hamilton Lugar Competition Basic Materials Revealed”
2025 ILSA / Hamilton Lugar Moot Problem Released
The 2025 ILSA / Hamilton Lugar International Law Moot Court Competition problem, the Case Concerning the Order of the Opal, is now available!
The moot is a simulation of oral argument before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) based on the Jessup. Teams argue both sides in a fictional dispute between two countries.
The Competition is open to undergraduate students in the United States. It is co-hosted and co-administered by the Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies at Indiana University. Colleges and universities can enter up to five teams of two students apiece.
Basic materials will be released in the coming days.
2025 Student Deak Award
ILSA is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Student Deak Award. The Student Deak Award is given annually to the best international law student article in a student-edited law journal. The award honors Francis Deak, a WWII veteran who wrote extensively on international law. The award is the student corollary to the Deak Prize separately awarded by the American Journal of International Law to a younger author for meritorious scholarship in the prior year’s volume of the Journal. Continue reading “2025 Student Deak Award”
Tenth Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition
The American Society of International Law’s International Refugee Law Interest Group (IRLIG) is pleased to announce the tenth annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition Continue reading “Tenth Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition”
2025 Dalferes Laureates Announced
The 2025 recipients of the Rusty Dalferes Memorial Fund have been revealed. Continue reading “2025 Dalferes Laureates Announced”
ILSA now Recruiting 2025-2026 Student Directors
Want to get more involved with ILSA? We are now accepting applications for three new Student Directors. Student Directors serve as Members of the ILSA Board of Directors for a one year term.
Continue reading “ILSA now Recruiting 2025-2026 Student Directors”
