Compromis: Case Concerning the Women & Children of the Civil War (Annolay v. Reston)

Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Championship Round Date: April 5, 2003

Jessup World Cup Champion:  University of Western Australia (Australia)
Team Members – Bronwyn Grieve, Sarah Knuckey, Andrew Lodder, Imogen Saunders, Benjamin Spagnolo
Coach – Julie Taylor

Runner Up:  Mari State University (Russia)
Team Members – Antonida Alibekova, Pavel Bulatov, Alexey Konovalov, Ksenia Lapteva, Yulia Romanova
Coach – Dmitri A Sandakov

Final Round Judges
Hon. Patricia M. Wald  – ret. Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
His Exc. David Scheffer – Senior Vice Presiden, United Nations Association of the United States
Maurice Mendelson, Q.C. – Blackstone Chambers, London

Problem Author: Not Recorded

Executive Director: Michael Peil

Executive Assistants: Robert Romashko

Best Oralist (Championship Round): Benjamin Spagnolo, University of Western Australia (Australia)

Oralist (Preliminary Rounds): Imogen Saunders, University of Western Australia (Australia)

Best Applicant Memorial (Richard R. Baxter Award): University Catolica Andres Bello (Venezuela)

Best Respondent Memorial (Richard R. Baxter Award): Bond University (Australia)

Best Memorial  – Int’l. Rounds (Alona E. Evans Award): University of Vienna (Austria)

Best Memorial – World Regional Rounds (Hardy C. Dillard Award): Michigan State University (USA)

Spirit of the Jessup Award: Glasgow Graduate School of Law (United Kingdom)

Pamela Young Award: David Baron, Jo-Ann Harding, David Rauzino

2003 Records: 

Number of Teams Worldwide: 481

Number of Teams at the International Rounds: 83

Number of Countries: 77

Number of Countries at the International Rounds: 66