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Below is a list of the second batch of Basic Materials provided in connection with the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
The authors of the 2009 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.
- Rules of the International Court of Justice
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706, S/RES/1706 (2006)
- Meeting Record Associated with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706, S/PV.5519 (2006)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/149, Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, A/RES/62/149 (26 February 2008)
- United Nations General Assembly Report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, A/61/19 (Part III) (11 June 2007)
- United Nations Secretary-General's Bulletin on Information Sensitivity, Classification and Handling, ST/SGB/2007/6 (12 February 2007)
- United Nations Report of the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, A/59/565 (2 December 2004)
- Colombia v. Peru, Case Concerning Haya de la Torre, International Court of Justice (13 June 1951)
- Nicaragua v. United States Of America, Case Concerning The Military And Paramilitary Activities In And Against Nicaragua, Judgment on the Merits, International Court of Justice (27 June 1986)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda, Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, International Court of Justice (19 December 2005)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, International Court of Justice (26 February 2007)
- Soering v. United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights (7 July 1989)
- The Responsibility to Protect, Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001)
- Elizabeth F. Defeis, U.N. Peacekeepers and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: An End to Impunity, 7 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 185 (2008)
- Westlaw Citation: 7 WAUGSLR 185
- Lexis Citation: 7 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 185
- William A. Schabas, International Law & the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 55 Washington & Lee Law Review 797 (1998)
- Westlaw Citation: 55 WLLR 797
- Lexis Citation: 55 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 797
- Kerry Tetzlaff, Humanitarian Intervention Post Kosovo: Does a Right to Humanitarian Intervention Exist in Customary International Law After Kosovo? If Not, Is There a Trend Towards the Creation of a Right to Humanitarian Intervention in Customary International Law?, New Zealand Postgraduate Law eJournal, Issue 4