Competition Materials

Jessup 2022 Problem - download as pdf or doc

First Batch of Basic Materials
  1. Charter of the United Nations
  2. Statute of the International Court of Justice
  3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  4. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  5. Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (the Budapest Convention)
  6. Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
  7. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
  8. Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection
  9. Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
  10. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, 13 April 2021, A/HRC/47/25
  11. Human Rights Committee General Comment No 34
  12. Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (2015)
  13. Tallinn Manual 2.0 - Please note that this resource is available publicly only until 8 January 2022
  14. The Evidentiary Practice of the World Court’ in Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo et al. (eds), Liber Amicorum in Honour of a Modern Renaissance Man: His Excellency Gudmundur Eiríksson (Universal Law Publishing/LexisNexis 2017) 361–382
  15. Chen, S. Re-assessing the evidentiary regime of the International Court of Justice: A case for codifying its discretion to exclude evidence. (2015). International Commentary on Evidence. 13, (1), 1-40. Research Collection School Of Law
  16. Legal Frameworks for Hacking by Law Enforcement: Identification, Evaluation and Comparison of Practices, 6 April 2017
  17. Grant Gerard, Note, Botnet Mitigation and International Law, 58 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 189 (2019-2020)

Submit your suggestions for the Second Batch of Basic Materials - Due 8 November 2021

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law - Jessup Collection
We are pleased to announce a collaboration with the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL). The AVL is a virtual training and research center with more than 400 leading international law scholars, judges and practitioners from different States and legal systems who contribute to its three pillars: the Lecture Series, the Historic Archives and the Research Library. Through this collaboration, the AVL has organized relevant lectures and instruments that can be used by Jessup 2022 participants to help prepare for the competition this year.