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Below is a list of the second batch of Basic Materials provided in connection with the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
The authors of the 2011 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.
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The documents included in the second batch of Basic Materials are as follows:
- International Committee of the Red Cross, Customary International Humanitarian Law Database (Link Updated 12/18/10)
- General Assembly Resolution 3314 (1974)
- Prosecutor v. Boskoski and Tarculovski, Case No. IT-04-82-T, Trial Chamber Judgment, 10 July 2008
- Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda (Armed Activities in the Territory of the Congo), Merits, 2005 ICJ, and Separate Opinions of Judges Simma, Kooijmans, and Elaraby
- Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ, and Separate Opinion of Judge Higgins
- Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), Judgment, 2003 ICJ
- Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), 1984 ICJ
- Blanco v. Nicaragua, Comm. No. 328/1988 20, Hum. Rts. Comm. (1988)
- Sahin v. Turkey, App. No. 44774/98, 2005-XI Eur. Ct. H.R. 173
- Dogru v. France, App. No. 27058/05, 49 Eur. H.R. Rep. 8
- UK House of Lords, R (on the application of Corner House Research and others)(Respondents) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office (Appellant) (Criminal Appeal from Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice), [2008] UKHL 60 (BAE Systems)
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 22, Article 18 (Forty-eighth session, 1993), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1 at 35 (1994)
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment 18, Non-discrimination (Thirty-seventh session, 1989), Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1 at 26 (1994)
- Milanovic, Marko, From Compromise to Principle: Clarifying the Concept of State Jurisdiction in Human Rights Treaties, Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 8, 2008
- Scharf, Michael P., Seizing the ‘Grotian Moment’: Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change (April 12, 2010). Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 43, p. 439, 2010; Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-19
- Melzer, Nils, Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law, International Committee of the Red Cross, 2009
- Cannizzaro, Enzo, Contextualizing proportionality: jus ad bellum and jus in bello in the Lebanese war, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 864 (2006)
- Sassoli, Marco, Transnational Armed Groups and International Humanitarian Law, Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research Occasional Paper Series, Harvard University, Winter 2006
- Rose-Ackerman, Susan, and Billa, Benjamin, "Treaties and National Security" Faculty Scholarship Series (2008)
- Howard, David and Wiygul, Elisa, “FCPA Compliance: The Vanishing ‘Facilitating Payments’ Exception?” Dechart On Point, April 2010