OFFICIAL RULE 0.0 DEFINITIONS

The following terms have the corresponding meanings.

"Administrator" means, with respect to any National, Regional, or International Competition, the person appointed to administer that competition.

"Advanced Rounds" means, with respect to any National, Regional, or International competition, all of the applicable Championship Rounds, Semifinal Rounds, Quarterfinal Rounds, Octafinal Rounds, and Run-Off Rounds conducted at that competition.

"Applicant" means the side of the Team which argues on behalf of the Applicant state at any given point in the Competition.

"Bench Memorandum" means the memorandum of laws and authorities concerning the Competition Problem prepared by the ILSA Executive Office for the exclusive use of Competition judges, as described in Rules 2.5, 5.5 and 5.6.

"Competition" means the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

"Competition Problem" means the official Compromis of the Competition as supplemented, clarified, or corrected by the ILSA Executive Office.

“Competition Year” means the period starting on the date of the release of the official Compromis and ends at the conclusion of the International Rounds.

"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the International Law Students Association.

“Exhibition Team” means a Team that is invited to participate in the International Rounds, but that is not eligible to win the Jessup Cup or the other awards associated with the International Rounds.

“ILSA Executive Office” means the executive office of the International Law Students Association.

"International Rounds" means the White & Case International Rounds, the final stage of the Competition, held each year in Washington D.C. among the Representatives from each nation.

"Memorial" means the written pleadings of each Team, written and submitted pursuant to these Rules.

"National Round" means any competition administered with the approval of the ILSA Executive Office through which a nation determines the Team(s) that will advance to the International Rounds.

"National Rules Supplement" means a set of rules promulgated by an Administrator to supplement or modify the Official Rules for purposes of a National or Regional competition.

“Official Team Contact” means the individual identified by the Team during the registration process for receipt of official team correspondence.

"Official Schedule" means the official timetable of the Competition, setting forth all relevant events and deadlines associated with the Competition.

"Oral Round" means a single match of oral presentation between two Teams, one representing Applicant and one representing Respondent, as described in Rule 7.0.

"Penalty" means the consequence of a rule violation, whether disqualification or the deduction of points pursuant to Rule 11.0.

“Plagiarism” means the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of another’s writings, or the ideas or language of another, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind, either through exact duplication of another’s work or by lifting substantial portions without attribution.

"Problem Clarifications and Corrections" means the official clarifications and corrections to the Compromis, as published pursuant to Rule 2.7.

"Regional Round" means any competition administered with the approval of the ILSA Executive Office through which a region determines the Team(s) that will advance to the International Rounds.

"Representative," "National Representative," or" Regional Representative" means a Team selected to represent its nation or region at the International Rounds, whether by National or Regional Round or by other means.

"Respondent" means the side of the Team which argues on behalf of the Respondent state at any given point in the Competition.

"Rules" means these Official Rules of the Competition and any applicable National Rules Supplements.

"Team" means a team of eligible students recognized by the ILSA Executive Office which registers to compete in the Competition, pursuant to Rule 2.0.

“Team Advisor” means an individual, such as a coach or faculty advisor, who at any time during the Competition Year has responsibility for organizing, advising, or training a Team, whether or not a member of the faculty of the institution represented by the Team.

“Team Member” means any eligible student who should be registered as a competitor of a Team.

OFFICIAL RULE 1.0 ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPETITION

1.1 Administration

The Competition is presented annually by the International Law Students Association (ILSA). The Competition is administered by the Executive Director of ILSA. The ILSA Executive Office is located at 25 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60604, U.S.A., tel: +1 (312) 362-5025, fax: +1 (312) 362-5073, email: ilsa@ilsa.org. All materials developed by ILSA for the Competition, including, without limitation, the Official Rules and the Competition Problem are the sole property of ILSA, and may not be reproduced for any purpose other than participation in or administration of the Competition without the express and prior written consent of the ILSA Executive Director. In addition, all Memorials become the sole property of ILSA, and may not be republished without its express consent.

1.2 Structure of the Competition

(a) The Competition consists of two levels: (1) National or Regional Rounds, and (2) the International Rounds. National or Regional Rounds are held in each nation or region where more than one Team participates in the Competition. The International Tournament represents the final level of the Competition, designated as the International Rounds, and includes Preliminary Rounds, Advanced Rounds, and the World Championship Jessup Cup Round. Each competition consists of written pleadings (Memorials) and oral pleadings (Oral Rounds).

(b) The Executive Director will determine the exact number of Teams participating in the International Rounds and the manner in which they are chosen, provided that each participating nation is permitted to enter at least one (1) Team in the International Rounds of the Competition for every ten (10) Teams participating in that nation's National or Regional competition(s). In nations where only one Team participates, that Team is the National Representative to the International Rounds.

1.3 Establishment of Natoinal and Regional Rounds

If more than one Team registers from a particular nation or jurisdiction, the Executive Director will inform all such Teams that a National or Regional competition will be necessary to determine which Teams will advance to the International Rounds. The National Representative(s) to the International Rounds will be designated subject to Rule 1.2(b).

1.4 Administrators

(a) The Executive Director will appoint an Administrator for each National and Regional competition. The Executive Director will inform Teams of the name and contact information of the Administrator of their National or Regional competition as soon as practicable. The Administrator will designate the date and location for the National or Regional competition and must conduct the National or Regional competition consistent with these Rules and in consultation with the Executive Director.

(b) An Administrator may not serve as a Team Advisor or in any other way assist a Team registered in his or her National or Regional competition. An Administrator may not act as a judge in actual or exhibition Rounds of his or her Qualifying National or Regional competition

1.5 National Rules Supplement

(a) The ILSA Executive Office encourages all Administrators to formulate a National Rules Supplement for their National and Regional Rounds.

(b) National Rules Supplements must be submitted to and approved by the ILSA Executive Office before they may be adopted and enforced by an Administrator. An Administrator shall submit a National Rules Supplement to the ILSA Executive Office for approval as soon as practicable but no later than two weeks prior to the commencement of the National or Regional competition, unless the National Rules Supplement modifies the memorial submission procedure, in which case no later than two weeks prior to the memorial submission deadline indicated in the Official Schedule.

(i) the Administrator intends to introduce additional rules or otherwise modify the Official Rules, taking into consideration the needs of the National or Regional competition and the best interests of the Competition;

(ii) the Administrator expects more than 15 Teams to participate in the National or Regional competition; or

(iii) the ILSA Executive Office requests the Administrator to adopt a National Rules Supplement.

(d) Upon approval of a National Rules Supplement, the ILSA Executive Office shall post that National Rules Supplement on the Jessup website, and the Administrator shall immediately notify every affected team that a National Rules Supplement has been approved and adopted.

1.6 Power to Promulgate Additional Measures

The Executive Director may promulgate such other measures for the orderly conduct of the Competition or to correct deficiencies in the Competition. After the approval of a National Rules Supplement by the ILSA Executive Office pursuant to Official Rule 1.5, Administrators may, in consultation with and upon prior approval of the Executive Director, promulgate additional rules, modifications, or other measures for the orderly conduct of the National or Regional competition. Any such proposed additional rules, modifications, or other measures shall not violate the spirit of these Rules or the best interests of the Competition. Any proposed additional rules, modifications or other measures shall be submitted to the ILSA Executive Office as soon as practicable for approval in accordance with Official Rule 1.5, and once approved, codified by the Administrator in the National Rules Supplement and posted to Jessup website.

1.7 Interpretation of Rules

The Executive Director shall serve as final arbiter of implementation and interpretation of these Rules and of any National Rules Supplement.

OFFICIAL RULE 2.0 PARTICIPATION AND ELIGIBILITY

2.1 Team Eligibility

(a) All law schools, law faculties, and institutions with international law‑related degree programs are eligible to participate in the Competition. All determinations of eligibility are in the discretion of the ILSA Executive Office. In certain exceptional cases, the ILSA Executive Office, in consultation with the relevant Administrator, may grant eligibility to institutions with degree programs in international relations, provided that adequate instruction in international law will be available to the Team.

(b) Each school may enter one Team. In extenuating circumstances, an Administrator may petition the ILSA Executive Office, in writing, to allow multiple Teams from a single school. Such representation may be allowed if it is established that each Team fulfills the participation and registration requirements of these Rules and one of the following conditions is met: (i) a local competition would be difficult or impossible to hold due to school regulations, calendars or other circumstances beyond the control of the Administrator or participating Teams; or (ii) the Teams represent different colleges, faculties, branches, departments, or campuses of the same school and will be participating independently of each other.

(c) Teams which have outstanding debts for fees or other Competition obligations (including the United States hosting obligation as described in the United States National Supplement) are not eligible to compete in the following year's Competition until such fees have been paid or obligations have been satisfied.

(d) Any Team which is composed of more than five Team Members (Official Rule 2.2), or which utilizes improper outside assistance (Official Rule 2.4), the Bench Memorandum (Official Rule 2.5), or another Team's Memorial without authorization under these Rules (Official Rule 2.6) may be disqualified from the Competition.

(e) All participating institutions must obtain special permission from the ILSA Executive Office to use the current Competition Year’s competition materials, including, but not limited to, the Compromis, for any purpose other than participating in the Jessup Competition, including, but not limited to, conducting an internal moot court competition and Jessup Team try-outs. Teams from institutions that violate this rule may be disqualified from the Competition. Institutions that violate this rule may be deemed ineligible to participate in future years.

2.2 Team Composition and Selection

A Team may be composed of two to five Team Members, who shall be the only individuals contributing to the work product of the Team over the course of the Competition Year. Substitutions of Team Members are not permitted after the release of the official Compromis except in extenuating circumstances and only with the written permission of the ILSA Executive Office.

2.2.1 Minimum requirements for Team Member eligibility

A person may be a Team Member if he or she:

(a) is pursuing a law degree or an international law-related degree; and

(b) is enrolled at an eligible institution as a full-time or part-time student during the relevant Competition Year and plans to participate in the Competition on behalf of that institution; and

2.2.2 ILSA Executive Office's written permission required in certain cases

In addition to satisfying Rule 2.2.1, a person must additionally request and obtain the written permission of the ILSA Executive Office to be a Team Member if the person:

(a) is enrolled as a visiting or exchange student rather than as a degree candidate, or is otherwise enrolled at more than one institution;

(b) is serving as an extern or apprentice in lieu of attending class; or

(c) has already received a graduate degree or post-graduate degree in a legal field (e.g., LL.M., J.D., Canadian LL.B., M.Phil (International Law), Juris Master, Ph.D.); or

(d) is enrolled in a program of study leading to a post-graduate degree in a legal field (e.g., Ph.D., D.Phil.).

Note that most LL.B. degrees are considered undergraduate degrees. Students who are currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in a legal field are not required to obtain special permission under Rule 2.2.2 (c). In addition, students who are currently pursuing, but have not yet completed, their first graduate degree in a legal field are not required to obtain special permission under Rule 2.2.2(c).

2.2.3 Executive Director’s Discretion

The Executive Director shall have the discretion to grant or deny eligibility in certain exceptional circumstances notwithstanding the provisions of Rule 2.2, but shall do so only in accord with the spirit of these Rules and in the best interests of the Competition.

2.3 Team Selection Process

Team Members may be chosen by any method approved by the responsible authority within the school, subject to the following provisions:

2.3.1 Selection by Intramural Competitions

If a school wishes to hold an intramural competition to determine the composition of its Team, the current Competition Problem may not be used unless approved in writing by the Executive Director.

2.3.2 Nationality Requirements

Administrators may not, without the written approval of the Executive Director, set nationality requirements with regard to the composition of Teams. Requests for such approval must state clearly in writing the reasons for such a requirement and must be incorporated in the approved National Rules Supplement, in accordance with these Rules.

2.4 Outside Assistance to Teams

2.4.1 General Rule

Each Team must research, write, edit, and develop its own legal and factual arguments without the assistance of persons who are not members of the Team.

2.4.2 Penalty for Receiving Outside Assistance

Any Team which receives outside assistance may be disqualified from the Competition.

2.4.3 Assistance from Team Advisors

As a general principle, a Team shall have no greater number of Team Advisors than is necessary to adequately prepare the Team for fair competition. Notwithstanding the provisions of Rule 2.4.1, Team Advisors may provide advice to a Team, provided such advice is limited to:

(a) general instruction on the basic principles of international law;

(b) general advice on research sources and methods;

(d) general advice on oral advocacy techniques;

(e) general advice on the organization and structure of arguments in the Team’s written and oral pleadings;

(f) general commentary on the quality of the Team’s legal and factual arguments;

(g) advice on the interpretation and enforcement of these Rules; and

(h) advice as to pleading option or similar strategy.

2.4.4 Assistance from Other Teams

Team Members and Team Advisors from any Team, including Teams that have been eliminated from the Competition, may not provide assistance in any way to any other Team. Assistance hereby prohibited includes, but is not limited to, giving the Team's notes or Memorials to an advancing Team, posting the Team’s Memorials online such that a person who is not a registered Team Member or registered Team Advisor may access them, engaging in practice moots against a participating Team, and providing video or audio tapes of previous rounds, whether practice rounds or competitive competition rounds, to an advancing Team. In certain circumstances, the Executive Director may allow for assistance if deemed to be in the best interests of the Competition.

2.4.5 Jessup Courses

Unless prior approval is granted in writing by the Executive Director, Team Members may not participate or be enrolled in a class or course which uses the current year’s Competition Problem as a subject matter of instruction, as a teaching tool, or as a means for selecting Team Members. No approval is necessary if student enrolment in the course is limited to Team Members. In any case, even when approval is unnecessary or has been granted by the Executive Director, Team Members must comply with the other provisions of Official Rule 2.4 regarding outside assistance. Students enrolled in a Jessup course who are not selected to be Team Members may not share or discuss their work with Team Members, and any such work must be discarded.

2.4.6 Draft Memorials

Before Memorials are submitted, Teams may not distribute their memorials to anyone who is not a registered Team Member or a registered Team Advisor. Registered Team Advisors may provide feedback on memorials at any time provided they abide by the provisions of Rule 2.4.3 with respect to the permissible advice which can be given to the Team.

2.4.7 Practice Rounds

(a) Teams may organize "practice rounds" of oral pleadings involving the Competition Problem to prepare the Team for competition. In practice rounds, the persons presenting arguments for the Applicant and Respondent must be from the same Team.

(b) Registered Team Advisors may serve as judges in practice rounds held at any time provided they abide by the provisions of Rule 2.4.3 with respect to the permissible advice which can be given to the Team.

(c) Anyone who is not a registered Team Member or registered Team Advisor may not serve as a judge in practice rounds unless they:

(i) do so only after the submission of Memorials;

(ii) are not formally affiliated with any other Team in the Competition;

(iii) have not obtained access to the bench memorandum and otherwise abide by the provisions of Rule 2.5 with respect to the confidentiality of the bench memorandum;

(iv) confine their comments and feedback to general commentary on the advocacy style and technique of the speakers, and to commentary respecting the general rules of international law; and

(v) refrain from making commentary or suggestions about specific substantive arguments.

2.5 Confidentiality of the Bench Memorandum

(a) The Bench Memorandum is strictly confidential. The Executive Director will disqualify any Team which makes use of the Bench Memorandum. Teams who obtain a copy of the Bench Memorandum should immediately return it to the Executive Director without examining the contents.

(b) The Bench Memorandum may not be used at practice rounds or any other event that is not an official National or Regional competition or the International Rounds.

2.6 Use of Opposing Team's Memorials and Arguments

A Team may not view or otherwise become privy to any Memorial other than the applicable Applicant or Respondent Memorials of each of its scheduled opponents. A team may incorporate arguments and other information from the Memorials and Oral Rounds of other Teams which the Team is authorized to view or hear under this Rule.

2.7 Problem Clarifications and Corrections

Teams may request clarification and correction to the Compromis by submitting a written request to the ILSA Executive Office by the date in the Official Schedule. Based upon the requests received from all Teams, the ILSA Executive Office will publish Problem Clarifications and Corrections on the date in the Official Schedule. Each Team must ensure that it receives and adequately notes the Problem Clarifications and Corrections in preparation for the Competition.

2.8 Anonymity of Teams

Teams must not reveal their school or country of origin to judges at any time during a competition. The Administrator may disqualify or impose a Penalty against any Team that intentionally or inadvertently discloses its school or country of origin to a judge, whether or not such disclosure occurs during an Oral Round.

OFFICIAL RULE 3.0 TEAM REGISTRATION

3.1 Team Registration

Each Team must register with the ILSA Executive Office by completing a registration form and paying the appropriate registration fee by the registration deadline in the Official Schedule. Each Team must designate an Official Team Contact. Notice to the Team contact constitutes notice to all Team Members.

3.2 Waiver of Registration Fee

Teams unable to pay the registration fee may apply for a waiver or discount from the ILSA Executive Office. The ILSA Executive Office will grant waivers in exceptional circumstances only.

3.3 Team Member Registration

(a) Every student who contributes to the work product of the Team at any point in the Competition Year must be registered as a Team Member and counted toward the maximum of five (5) Team Members that may constitute a Team. Conducting research for a Team’s oral and/or written arguments, writing any part of a Team’s memorial, and presenting any of a Team’s oral arguments are examples of activities that contribute to a Team’s work product. Only active, contributing Team Members may be registered as such. Students designated by a school or by a Team as alternate or back-up team members may not be registered as Team Members and may not contribute to the Team’s work product.

(b) Insofar as changing roles would not contravene any of the Official Rules, each registered Team Member may serve any team member role, such as researcher, writer, oralist for the Applicant, and oralist for the Respondent, and may serve multiple or all team member roles, at any time during the Competition Year. Team Members do not need to register or otherwise designate their particular role(s) on the team with ILSA.

(c) It is the responsibility of the Team to ensure that students are eligible under the provisions of Rule 2.0, or have submitted a request for special permission as required under rule 2.2.1, before they begin contributing to the Team’s work product.

(d) Registered Team Members with pending requests for special permission may contribute to the Team’s work product while awaiting ILSA’s decision regarding such requests. If the ILSA Executive Office denies a request, the requesting Team Member must immediately cease contributing to the Team’s work product and the Team must discard all work produced by the ineligible Team Member.

(e) The name of each Team Member and the degree program in which each Team Member is enrolled must be registered with the ILSA Executive Office via the online registration form or separately via email to jessup@ilsa.org by the deadline in the Official Schedule.

3.4 Team Advisor Registration

The name of each Team Advisor for a Team must be registered with the ILSA Executive Office by the registration deadline in the Official Schedule. An individual sitting only as a practice round judge pursuant to Rule 2.4.7(c), whether or not a member of the faculty of the institution represented by the Team, need not register as a Team Advisor.

3.5 Team Number as Identification

Once a Team has completed registration, the ILSA Executive Office will assign the Team a team number.

3.6 Changes to Registration Information

Teams must promptly record changes or additions to registration information in the registration system located at http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/registration.php. Substitution of a Team Member is not permitted after the release of the official Compromis except in extenuating circumstances and only with the written permission of the ILSA Executive Office. The ILSA Executive Office will record approved Team Member substitutions in the registration system. These registration obligations continue throughout the course of the Competition Year until the Team has been eliminated from the Competition.

NOTE: In accordance with Rule 2.2, no more than five individuals may contribute to the work product of the Team over the course of the Competition Year.

OFFICIAL RULE 4.0 [RESERVED]

OFFICIAL RULE 5.0 JUDGES

5.1 Eligibility to Judge

The Executive Director, or the Administrator in consultation with the Executive Director, will determine the eligibility of persons to serve as judges in any competition, subject to the following provisions:

5.1.1 Students

Students may not act as judges, except LL.M. and other post‑graduate degree candidates who are not directly affiliated with any Team participating in the competition at which they are judging.

5.1.2 Team Advisors

Team Advisors, or other persons directly affiliated with a Team, may not act as judges in any competition until the Team they advise has been eliminated from the Competition.

5.2 Anonymity of Teams

Judges should not attempt to ascertain the school or country of origin of any Team during a competition. However, in circumstances where the judge believes his or her evaluation of a particular Memorial would be affected by knowledge of whether or not the primary language used by the Team Members in their legal studies is English, the judge may request the ILSA Executive Office to reveal this information.

5.3 Judges Affiliated with Schools in the Competition

(a) No judge should sit on a panel of any Oral Round involving a Team from a school with which the judge has an affiliation, acquaintance or other role which would create an appearance of impropriety, except in situations disclosed to and approved by the Executive Director. Merely being an alumnus of a participating school does not constitute a violation of this Rule.

(b) Judges should disqualify themselves from judging a Team if they have a personal or professional relationship with the school or someone affiliated with that Team, and if that relationship might jeopardize their impartiality or create an appearance of impropriety. However, judges should not disqualify themselves from judging a round merely because they have an acquaintance with a Team Member or other affiliation or relationship with the school.

(c) If a Team competing in an Oral Round wishes to inform the Administrator that a judge assigned to that Oral Round might be disqualified under this Rule 5.3, it must inform the bailiff prior to the commencement of that Oral Round. The fact that a Team Member recognizes a judge is not itself sufficient to disqualify the judge.

5.4 Prior Viewing of Teams

(a) Subject to Section 5.4(b), judges should not view a Team which they have viewed in a previous Oral Round. If a judge must view a Team twice, the Administrator should strive to ensure that the judge views the Team's opposite side.

(b) In the Advanced Rounds of the International Rounds, the Executive Director may permit judges to view one or more Teams which they have previously judged, if such viewing serves the best interests of the Competition.

5.5 Bench Memorandum

Judges must keep the contents of the Bench Memorandum strictly confidential from Teams.

5.6 Commentary by Judges

Judges are encouraged to provide direct feedback to Teams regarding the Teams' performance at the completion of an Oral Round. In providing such feedback, judges are admonished to give due regard to the time limitations and schedule of the competition, and must abide by the following:

(a) In the Preliminary Rounds of any competition, Judges may not provide any feedback which would reveal the contents of the Bench Memorandum, the scores given to individual oralists, or the results of the Round.

(b) In the Advanced Rounds of any competition, Judges may not provide any feedback which would reveal the contents of the Bench Memorandum or the scores given to individual oralists, however they may reveal the results of the Round.

OFFICIAL RULE 6.0 MEMORIALS

6.1 Submission of Memorials

(a) Each Team participating in the Competition must prepare one Applicant and one Respondent Memorial.

(b) Each Team must send its Applicant and Respondent Memorials via e-mail to the ILSA Executive Office at jessup@ilsa.org, and to the Administrator, if any, at the e-mail address provided by the Administrator, no later than 11:59 p.m., university's local time, on the date specified in the Official Schedule. Submission must occur in a single e-mail message, addressed to the ILSA Executive Office and the Administrator, with both Memorials attached. If one of the Memorials will be submitted late, a Team may separately send the timely Memorial before the deadline without penalty.

(c) In exceptional situations and upon approval of the Executive Director pursuant to Official Rule 1.5, an Administrator may modify the Memorial submission guidelines via a National Rules Supplement in the following ways:

(i) By establishing a deadline which is earlier, but not later, than the time and date specified in the Official Schedule. If an earlier deadline is set, the Memorials must be sent both to the ILSA Executive Office and to the Administrator by this revised deadline. Memorials received by the ILSA Executive Office after the revised deadline will be subject to late penalties.

(ii) By requiring electronic copies to be mailed to opponent Teams by the deadline and in the manner and form specified by the Administrator.

(iii) By requiring paper copies to be mailed to the Administrator and/or opponent Teams by the deadline and in the manner and form specified by the Administrator. If the Administrator requests paper copies, the Administer may specify a later postmark or courier deadline for the paper copies than for the electronic submission provided an electronic copy is sent to ILSA and the Administrator by the designated deadline for electronic copies.

(d) All electronic and paper copy versions (if any) submitted to the ILSA Executive Office, the Administrator, or any other person must be identical.

(e) Once Memorials have been submitted to the ILSA Executive Office, whether or not the memorial deadline has expired, resubmitted Memorials will be subject to a five (5) point penalty. If resubmitted after the memorial deadline has expired, resubmitted memorials will also be subject to applicable late penalties.

(f) Equipment failure or problems will not be considered an excuse for improper formatting or late mailing of Memorials.

6.1.1 Disqualification Deadline

Unless otherwise agreed in advance and in writing by the ILSA Executive Office, a Team will be disqualified from the Competition if it does not submit both of its Applicant and Respondent Memorials by 11:59pm, university’s local time, on the Disqualification Deadline for Memorial submission specified in the Official Schedule. Any Memorial submitted after the deadline for Submission of Memorials as defined by Official Rule 6.1(b) but prior to this Disqualification Deadline will be subject to applicable late penalties.

6.1.2 Memorials Submitted in Languages Other Than English

If permitted by an applicable National Rules Supplement, Teams may submit Memorials for National and Regional Rounds in languages other than English. Teams must send such Memorials to the ILSA Executive Office in the original language via electronic mail on or before the deadline indicated in the Official Schedule. Memorials of such Teams advancing to the International Rounds must be translated into English and submitted to the ILSA Executive Office via electronic mail no later than three (3) weeks prior to the start of the International Preliminary Rounds. Unless otherwise agreed in advance and in writing by the ILSA Executive Office, failure to send translations by this date will result in disqualification of the Team. Such Memorials must otherwise conform to the required format outlined in these Rules. The translation of Memorials must be, to the greatest extent possible, verbatim translations of the originally submitted Memorials. Translated Memorials must be accompanied by a certificate from the translators stating that the contents of the Memorials were not revised, updated, or otherwise altered in the translation process. The Executive Director may disqualify any Team that alters the substantive content of its Memorial(s) during translation.

6.2 Memorial Format

6.2.1 Document Format

Document Format - All parts of each Memorial must be contained in a single file. Memorials must be in Microsoft Word format and have a .doc or .docx file extension. Memorials that do not conform to this rule, such as memorials in PDF format or memorials using a .dat file extension, will not be accepted. If a team submits its memorials in an unacceptable format, it may resubmit conforming Memorials but will be subject to resubmission penalties under Rule 6.1(e).

6.2.2 Paper Size and Margins

All pages of the Memorial must be letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm), with equal margins of at least one inch (2.54 cm) on all four sides. The ILSA Executive Office and Administrator may reformat a Memorial that does not comply with this rule. Teams are advised that such reformatting may result in changes to pagination and layout.

6.2.3 Printing

Administrators in jurisdictions where letter is the standard paper size must print Memorials on letter size paper for their National or Regional competition. Administrators in jurisdictions where A4 is the standard paper size may print Memorials on letter size or A4 size paper for their National or Regional competition. However, the document settings in Rule 6.2.2 for paper size and margins must not change.

6.2.4 Font and Font Size

The font and size of the text of all parts of the Memorial, excluding the Cover Page but including the footnotes, must be in Times New Roman 12-point.

6.2.5 Line Spacing

The text of all parts of the Memorial, excluding the Cover Page, Table of Contents, and Index of Authorities, must be at least double-spaced. The text of footnotes may be single-spaced, but there must be at least double-spacing between separate footnotes. The text of headings may be single-spaced, but there must be at least double spacing between each heading and the body-text of the Memorial. Quotations to sources outside of the Memorial may be block quoted (i.e. right and left indented) and may be single-spaced if the quotation (excluding footnotes) has at least fifty words.

6.2.6 Advanced Features of Microsoft Word

Teams that take advantage of advanced features of Microsoft Word – including Track Changes and Comments - while drafting their Memorials are responsible for understanding how those advanced features work. A Memorial with tracked changes that have not been properly accepted or comments that have not been properly removed prior to submission will be assessed a five (5) point penalty, and Administrators shall accept any tracked changes and remove any comments found in an affected Memorial before submitting it to judges.

6.3 Memorial Content

6.3.1 Parts of the Memorial

The Memorial must contain the following parts, and only the following parts:

(a) Cover Page;