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Below is a list of the second batch of Basic Materials provided in connection with the 2010 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

The authors of the 2010 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.

1. The Aaland Islands Question (On Jurisdiction), Report of the International Committee of Jurists, League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement No. 3 (1920)
   
   
   • Original
     
     
   • Reprinted English Version (International Law Students Association)
     
   
   
2. The Aaland Islands Question (On the Merits), Report by the Commission of Rapporteurs, League of Nations Council Document B7 21/68/106 (1921) (excerpted and reprinted)
   
   
3. Clipperton Islands Case (Mexico v. France), Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law (28 January 1931), provided by Hein Online
   
   
4. The Minquiers and Ecrehos Case (France/United Kingdom), ICJ Judgment (17 November 1953)
   
   
5. Case Concerning the Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali), ICJ Judgment (22 December 1968)
   
   
6. Western Sahara, ICJ Advisory Opinion (16 October 1975)
   
   
7. Case Concerning Elettronica Sicula S.P.A. (ELSI) (United States of America v. Italy)
   
   
   • ICJ Judgment (20 July 1989)
     
     
   • Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States of America and the Italian Republic (2 February 1948)
   
   
8. American Manufacturing & Trading, Inc. v. Republic of Zaire, ICSID Case No. ARB/93/1, Award (21 February 1997)
   
   
9. Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia), ICJ Judgment (13 December 1999)
   
   
10. Mihaly International Corporation v. Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ICSID Case No. ARB/00/2, Award (15 March 2002)
    
    
11. Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo), ICJ Preliminary Objections (24 May 2007)
    
    
12. Hurst Hannum, Rethinking Self-Determination, 34 Virginia Journal of International Law 1 (1993)
    
    • Lexis Citation: 34 Va. J. Int'l L. 1
      
    • Westlaw Citation: 34 VAJIL 1
      
    
    
13. Lawrence Jahoon Lee, Barcelona Traction in the 21st Century: Revisiting its Customary and Policy Underpinnings 35 Years Later, 42 Stanford Journal of International Law 237 (2006)
    
    • Lexis Citation: 42 Stan. J Int'l L. 237
      
    • Westlaw Citation: 42 STJIL 237
      
    
    
14. Stephen M. Schwebel, Lecture: The Overwhelming Merits of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 32 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 263 (2009)
    
    • Lexis Citation: 32 Suffolk Transnat'l L. Rev. 263
      
    • Westlaw Citation: 32 SFKTLR 263
      
    
    
15. Investment Treaty Arbitration Website