Problem: Case Concerning the Kayleff Yak (State of Aurok v. Republic of Rakkab)
Topics: The appropriation of traditional knowledge for commercial purposes, state responsibility for corporate environmental degradation and human rights violations, and majestic herds of migratory yaks.
Location: Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Dates: 31 March - 6 April, 2019
Jessup World Cup Champion: Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
Team Members - Gábor Bazsó, Zolta Buda, Marcell Koncsik, and Vanessa Szép
Coaches - Gabor Kajtar, Daniel Pap, and Katalin Sulyok
Runner Up: Columbia Law School (United States)
Team Members - Andrew Connery, Daniel Fahrenthold, Sara Kaufhardt, Alexandra Nasar, and Adi Radhakrishnan
Coaches - Philip Andriole and Anika Havaldar
Championship Round Judges
Hugh Adsett (Global Affairs Canada)
S. James Anaya (University of Colorado Law School)
Andrew B. Loewenstein (Foley Hoag LLP)
Problem Authors: Michael Peil, Hannah Zhao, and Douglas Pivnichny
Executive Director: Lesley A. Benn
Best Oralist (Championship Round): #366 Hungary (Eötvös Loránd University) - Gábor Bazsó
Best Oralist (Preliminary Rounds): #538 - United States (Yale University) - Anirudh Sivaram
Alona E. Evans Award for Best Memorial at International Rounds: #305. Russia (National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow))
Hardy C. Dillard Awards for Best Combined Memorials - World & Qualifying Rounds:
1st - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (India)
2nd - Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)
3rd - Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
4th - Belarusian State University, Faculty of Int'l Relations (Belarus)
5th - University of Queensland (Australia)
Richard R. Baxter Award for Best Applicant Memorial: National Law University, Jodhpur (India) - view
Richard R. Baxter Award for Best Respondent Memorial: Auckland University (New Zealand) - view
Best New Team: #745 Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe University)
Best Overall Applicant Side: #248 India (NALSAR University, Hyderabad)
Best Overall Respondent Side: #221 Australia (University of Queensland)
Best Applicant Memorials at International Rounds:
1. Tie - #644. India (National Law University, Jodhpur)
1. Tie - #169. Argentina (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
3. #366. Hungary (Eötvös Loránd University)
Best Respondent Memorials at International Rounds:
1. #344. Russia (Ural State Law University)
2. #305. Russia (National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow))
3. #511. New Zealand (Auckland University)
Spirit of the Jessup Award: #745 Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe University)
Steven M. Schneebaum Award: Claudia Caceres (Guatamala), Adam El Shalakany (Egypt), and Salim Yusupov (Uzbekistan)
Pamela M. Young Award: Russell Dalferes, Vasco de Jesus Rodrigues, and Jessup Brazil
2019 Results
- Preliminary Rounds Rankings
- International Rounds Advanced Rounds
- International Rounds Top 100 Oralists
- Final Memorial Team Rankings
- List of Exhibition Teams
2019 US Regional Results
2019 Competition Materials
First Batch of Basic Materials
- UN Charter
- ICJ Statute
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species
- Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
- Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with commentaries
- Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 392
- Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2007, p. 43
- Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) and Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2015, p. 665
- Trail smelter case (United States, Canada), 3 UNRIAA, p. 1905, 1952
- African Commission on Human and People's Rights v. Kenya (Ogiek decision)
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights, ADVISORY OPINION OC-23/17 OF NOVEMBER 15, 2017
- UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), CCPR General Comment No. 22: Article 18 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience or Religion), 30 July 1993, CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.4
- Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework (A/HRC/17/31)
- James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples’ Participatory Rights in Relation to Decisions about Natural Resource Extraction: The More Fundamental Issue of What Rights Indigenous have in Lands and Resources (2005) Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 1
- Marko Milanovic, State Responsibility for Acts of Non-state Actors: A Comment on Griebel and Plucken (2009) Leiden JIL 307
- Hamdallah Zedan, “Presentation on Convention on Biological Diversity to the WIPO Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development” (2-3 May 2005)
Second Batch of Basic Materials
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- International Labor Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
- Whaling in the Antarctic, Australia and New Zealand (intervening) v Japan, Judgment, ICJ GL No 148, ICGJ 471 (ICJ 2014)
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment no. 21: Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (art. 15, para. 1 (a), of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 24 (2017) on State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities
- Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 31: The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant (2004), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.13
- Evanson Chege Kamau, Bevis Fedder and Gerd Winter, The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing: What is New and what are the Implications for Provider and User Countries and the Scientific Community?, Law Environ. Dev. J. 2010, 6, 248–263
- Nicolas Pauchard, Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity and Its Protocol: What Can Some Numbers Tell Us about the Effectiveness of the Regulatory Regime? (2017)
- Robert L. Fischman & Jeffrey B. Hyman, The Legal Challenge of Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance, 28 VA. ENVTL. L.J. 173 (2010)
- The ETO Consortium, “Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.” (2013)
- Eric Dannenmaier, Beyond Indigenous Property Rights: Exploring the Emergence of a Distinctive Connection Doctrine, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 53 (2008).
- United Nations Audiovisual Library Resources
