Jessup Registration is now open!

Teams can register here. Please read all information on the Registration page before attempting to register a team.

Jessup Registration Update

The ILSA Executive Office anticipates that online registration for the 2011 Jessup Competition will open this week. All official team contacts from the 2010 Jessup season will be sent an email announcement as soon as registration opens. A notice will also be posted here on ILSA’s homepage.

The deadline to register for the 2011 Jessup Competition will be 5 November for U.S. teams and 15 November for all other teams. To receive the early registration discount, your team must register by 1 September. Teams are encouraged to pay the registration fee online via PayPal or to submit an invoice for payment via fax or email to meet the early registration deadline. As in years prior, payment by credit card, check, money order, and wire bank transfer will all be accepted.

To determine the amount of your team’s registration fee, please refer to the Registration Fee Calculation Chart below. Please do not attempt to pay until after registration has opened and your team has registered online.

Registration Fee Calculation Chart

The Registration Fee varies by country. Find your country in the fee Schedule below to determine how much your team owes, and note any applicable discount(s):

Schedule I: United States

Schedule II: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Schedule III: All other countries and territories.

*Early Registration Discount. Teams that complete the online registration form and submit payment of the registration fee so that it is received by ILSA by 1 September 2010 are entitled to the early registration discount.

**ILSA Chapter Discount. An ILSA Chapter is a student group, such as an International Law Society, that is dedicated to ILSA’s mission of promoting the study and understanding of international law. Schools with an ILSA Chapter that have registered or will soon register with ILSA are entitled to the Chapter discount. For more information about registering an ILSA Chapter and Chapter membership benefits, please visit http://www.ilsa.org/members/chapters.php. If you do not know whether your school has a registered ILSA Chapter, please inquire to ilsa@ilsa.org.

Official 2011 Jessup Rules Available

On August 9th, 2010, the ILSA Board of Directors approved the 2011 Official Jessup Rules. There are significant changes from the previous year, and all participants are encouraged to review and familiarize themselves with the new Rules, even those participants who competed in 2010.

The 2011 Official Jessup Rules can be found here.

ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting

The Section of International Law of the American Bar Association will hold its Fall Meeting in Paris, France, November 2-6, 2010 at the Westin Paris Hotel. The section’s Fall Meeting is a great opportunity for anyone interested in international law to network and attend top-notch panels. The official brochure for the 2010 Fall Meeting can be found here. For additional information, please go to the conference website at http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/fall10/.

Important Dates:

September 20, 2010: Early Bird Registration Deadline
October 15, 2010: Pre-Registration Final Deadline
October 18, 2010: Westin Paris hotel room block Deadline

ILSA Moves to a New Office

ILSA's Host School, the DePaul University College of Law, has graciously provided us with an expansive new office. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to DePaul for its continued and untiring support of ILSA.

ILSA's new address is:

International Law Students Association
25 E Jackson Blvd Suite OMB1051
Chicago, IL 60604

Excerpt from 2010 White & Case Final Round Posted

A ten minute excerpt of the 2010 White & Case Final Round is available below. This excerpt stars Sarah Lynch pleading as the second respondent for the 2010 World Champions, Australian National University. To purchase the complete 2010 Final Round video please email us at ilsa@ilsa.org.

2010 International and National Round Photos Posted

You can now find photos from the 2010 White & Case International Rounds as well as numerous National Rounds posted on the ILSA website. International Round Photos can be found here and National Round Photos can be found here. See if you can find yourself!

Announcing the 2010 Baxter Winners

ILSA is pleased to announce the results of the Richard R. Baxter World Championship Memorial Competition, the most prestigious and final memorial competition of the 2010 Jessup season. The contestants for the Baxter award were the top five memorials from the White & Case International Rounds and the top five memorials from the Dillard Memorial Competition. Two groups of five Baxter judges, one assigned to the Applicant side and the other to the Respondent side, read and compared all of the memorial contestants of their respective side.

The 1st place Applicant and Respondent memorials will be published in the 2010 Jessup Compendium, in the ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, and on ILSA's website. Plaques are also awarded to the teams with the 1st place Memorials. Each member of the top five ranked teams will receive a certificate memorializing their achivement.

Congratulations to the 2010 Baxter World Champions, the National University of Singapore, which won 1st place in the Applicant category, and the Australian National University, which won 1st place in the Respondent category.

You can view the winning Applicant and the winning Respondent Memorials online.

The top-ranked briefs in each category are listed below:

Baxter - Applicant:
1. National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
2. Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA
3. Columbia Law School, UNITED STATES
4. National Law School of India University, Bangalore, INDIA
5. Australian National University, AUSTRALIA

Baxter - Respondent:
1. Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
2. National Law School of India University, Bangalore, INDIA
3. Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA
4. Columbia Law School, UNITED STATES
5. National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE

Congratulations to these world-class teams!

Mark your calendars for International Law Weekend 2010 in New York City!

On October 21-23, 2010, the American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association will present the annual International Law Weekend conference in New York City. The overall theme of ILW 2010 is "International Law and Institutions: Advancing Justice, Security and Prosperity," and the more than thirty panels to be held will address topics such as: the role of the United Nations in the development of international law; the Treaty of Lisbon; the international law on nuclear disarmament; and the international enforcement of bribery and corruption laws. Other panels include:

• TRIPS at 15
• The Limits of International Adjudication
• War, Philosophy and the Geneva Conventions
• Managing Discovery in Commercial Arbitration: The Institutional Response
• Constitutional Environmental Rights Worldwide
• The Evolution of Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses

Curious about the ILW conference? Watch a video of a panel held at ILW 2009 titled “Are We Still Allowed to Reject Transnational Norms?” by clicking here. ILW 2010 promises to be just as interesting!

Announcing the 2010 Dillard Winners

ILSA is delighted to announce that Chinese University of Hong Kong from Hong Kong, China has won 1st place in the 2010 Hardy C. Dillard Memorial Competition. The Dillard Competition brings together the winning memorials of each National and Regional competition, regardless of whether the authoring team advanced to the White & Case International Rounds, as well as the top 25 memorials of the White & Case International Rounds. Each memorial in this elite group is then re-graded by a three-judge panel. The respondent and applicant scores are combined to form a total score for each team. The teams that received the ten highest total scores in the 2010 Dillard Competition are listed below. All members of the eleven teams that ranked in the top ten will receive certificates. The seven teams that ranked in the top five will also receive plaques, and their memorials will advance to the Richard R. Baxter World Championship Memorial Competition. We expect to announce the results of the Baxter Competition in the first week of June. Both the first and second place teams of the Dillard Competition, as well as the first place teams of the Baxter Competition, will have the honor of seeing their memorials published in the 2010 volume of the Jessup Compendium, due out this coming winter.

ILSA congratulates 2010's top ten Dillard teams:

1. Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG, CHINA
2. National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
3. De La Salle University, PHILIPPINES
3. McGill University, CANADA
3. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
3. Universitaet Heidelberg, GERMANY
3. University College London, UNITED KINGDOM
8. Universidad de los Andes, COLOMBIA
9. National Law School of India, Bangalore, INDIA
10. Case Western Reserve University, UNITED STATES
10. Università di Torino, ITALY

Congratulations to these teams!

In Memoriam: Professor Gabriel Wilner

It is with great sorrow that ILSA announces the passing of Professor Gabriel Wilner on May 21st, 2010. A long-time FOJ, Gabriel was a member of the 50th Jessup Anniversary Honorary Committee and was a frequent Advanced Rounds Judge in the International Rounds. He competed in 1963 and 1964 and wrote the compromis in 1979, when he also served as a Final Round Judge. Mr. Wilner served as the Final Round Judge once more in 1999. He will be missed.

Mr. Wilner was a faculty member of the University of Georgia School of Law for over 35 years. The University of Georgia student newspaper, Red & Black, has published an article about Mr. Wilner that can be viewed here.

ILSA Debuts New Donations Page

ILSA is proud to introduce our new, streamlined donations page. You can now easily support ILSA and the Jessup Competition by credit card and through Paypal. Click here to read a testimonial about how your support can help students around the world.

As a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, all donations to ILSA are tax deductible in the United States to the full extent allowable by U.S. Federal Law.

Announcing the 2011 Jessup Topic

ILSA is delighted to announce that the 2011 Jessup Compromis will address the legality of the use of unmanned drones and international anti-corruption law.

In Memoriam: Sir Ian Brownlie

It is with great sorrow that ILSA announces the death of international law luminary Sir Ian Brownlie, who passed away on January 3 in a car accident. We mourn his loss along with the rest of the international legal community.

New Version of the White & Case Jessup Guide - Featuring Video Clips

White & Case has released a new version of the White & Case Jessup Guide, which now includes video clips from Jessup Final Rounds demonstrating examples of good oral argument techniques. To access this valuable new training tool, visit the White & Case Jessup Website at http://jessup.whitecase.com/multimedia/. We encourage all teams, in particular new teams and teams without coaches, to refer to the complete White & Case Jessup Guide for advice about working with the Jessup Compromis, researching international law, writing memorials, and developing and presenting oral pleadings.

ILSA Office Contact Information

The contact information for ILSA is:

International Law Students Association
c/o DePaul University College of Law
25 East Jackson Boulevard Suite OMB1051
Chicago, IL 60604

Phone: (312) 362-5025
Fax: (312) 362-5073