Jessup 50 Years
  Jessup 50th Anniversary Celebration  
 
 


This special dinner event will commemorate the golden anniversary of
the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the leading international law advocacy contest in the world.
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend this event.

The Jessup 50th Anniversary Celebration will be held Friday, March 27, 2009
at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center, located at
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C, United States of America.

The Celebration will begin at 6:30pm with a welcome reception, followed
by an elegant dinner in the Center’s star-lit atrium.
Transportation will be provided to the Celebration from the Fairmont Hotel,
where the ASIL Annual Meeting and Shearman & Sterling International Rounds of the Jessup Competition will be taking place.

Judge Rosalyn Higgins, the outgoing President of the International Court of Justice
and Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, Former President of the International
Court of Justice and author of the inaugural Jessup Competition Problem,
will be featured guest speakers.

We hope that you will be able to join President Higgins, Judge Schwebel,
and other leaders in the international legal community to honor a Competition
that has truly made a positive impact on our global community.

Please click here to purchase tickets to this special event.
Tickets must be purchased by March 13, 2009.

For more information about the Jessup 50th Anniversary Celebration or
the Jessup Competition, please visit www.ilsa.org or contact
the ILSA Executive Office at ilsa@ilsa.org.


 
 
 

 

Jessup 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee
Stephen M. Schwebel, Committee Chair

 
 

Ronny Abraham
Payam Akhavan
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh
Jose Alvarez
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Mohamed Bennouna
Rudolf Bernhardt
Nicola Bonucci
Charles Nelson Brower
Ian Brownlie
Thomas Buergenthal
James Hal Carter
Javade Chaudhri
Maureen Harding Clark
David M. Crane
James Crawford
Richard A. Falk
Tom Farer
Thomas M. Franck
Richard J. Goldstone
Christopher Greenwood
Rosalyn Higgins
Hassan B. Jallow

 

Philip C. Jessup Jr.
Shi Jiuyong
Larry Johnson
Kenneth Keith
Catherine Kessedjian
Frederic Kirgis
Philippe Kirsch
Harold Hongju Koh
Abdul G. Koroma
Pieter Jan Kuijper
Cynthia Lichtenstein
Cecilia Medina-Quiroga
Maurice Mendelson
Theodor Meron
James Nafziger
Ved Nanda
Elizabeth Odio-Benito
Hisashi Owada
Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren
Jordan Paust
Alain Pellet
Sonia Picado
Fausto Pocar
Raymond Ranjeva

Lucy Reed
Arthur William Rovine
Leila Sadat
Philippe Sands
William A. Schabas
Michael Scharf
David Scheffer
Steven Schneebaum
Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
Dinah Shelton
Bruno Simma
Abraham Sofaer
William H. Taft IV
Peter Tomka
Peter Dennis Trooboff
Hugh Verrier
Rebecca Wallace
Christopher Weeramantry
Rohan Weerasinghe
Edith Brown Weiss
Gabriel Wilner
David Wippman
Michael Wood

 
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