Jessup Judges
The Jessup Competition is judged by an elite corps of volunteer attorneys. Judges are needed at all levels of the Competition (National, Friendly, and International) to evaluate and score the written and oral pleadings of the competitors. In most jurisdictions, study or practice in the field of international law, or prior experience in the Jessup Competition, is preferred, but not required.
Feel free to email [email protected] with any questions.
Judge Registration
If you have previously registered to judge other editions of the Jessup, you do not need to create a new account. However, you may wish to update your profile on your Judge Homepage if any significant changes have occurred. If you are new to judging the Jessup, then you will need to create a new account.
If you have questions about a specific National Round, we encourage you to contact the National or Friendly Administrator in the first instance. However, you can also email [email protected] with questions or concerns.
Competition Materials
Jessup 2026 Problem – The Case Concerning the Gordian Gorge – Download as pdf or docx
Jessup 2026 Problem – Corrections & Clarifications Request Submission Form
National and Qualifying Rounds Schedule
The dates for all Jessup 2026 National and Friendly Rounds as well as Jessup Trainings will be updated on a rolling basis.
National and Friendly Competitions without information will be updated on a rolling basis as details are finalized. Additional National or Friendly Rounds may be added over the course of several weeks based on Jessup Team registration. Questions can be sent to [email protected].
Jessup Trainings
Training | Date | Location | Details |
National and Friendly Rounds
Jurisdiction | Administrator | Dates | Format/Location | Rules Supplement | |
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Afghanistan | Ramin Mansoory | |||
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Argentina | Argentina Jessup Committee | |||
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Armenia | Svetlana Chakhmakhchyan | 14-15 Feb | Rule Supplement | |
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Australia | Andrew Ray & Anthony Cassimatis | |||
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Azerbaijan | Mehri Guliyeva | |||
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Bangladesh | K M Ashbarul Bari & Arifa Chowdhury | |||
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Belarus | Victoria Mitskevich | |||
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Belgium | Gaby Barnett | |||
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Brazil | Thais Neves | |||
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Bulgaria | Kostadin Obretenov | 13-15 Feb | Supreme Court of Cassation of Bulgaria | |
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Cambodia | Committee of Cambodian Jessup Coaches | 21-22 Feb | ECCC | |
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Canada | Maggie MacDonald | 19-21 Feb | ||
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Central Asia Friendly | Salim Yusupov | 6-8 Feb | Tashkent State University of Law Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Chile | Felipe Hoetz | |||
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China | Lijiang Zhu | |||
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Chinese Taipei | Pei-Lun Tsai | National Chengchi University | ||
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Colombia | Juan José Hurtado-Calderón | 25-28 Feb | Bogotá (Various Venues) | |
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Dominican Republic | Jose Luis Almanzar | |||
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Egypt | Nada Hesham | |||
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Ethiopia | Elias Nour | |||
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European Friendly | Roxanna Nazari | 5-7 Mar | University of Bucharest | Rule Supplement |
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France | Elise Roussel & Damien Charlotin | |||
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Georgia | Ana Jabauri & Ketevan Arakhamia | |||
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Germany | Annika Mohr | 18-21 Feb | Universitaet Trier | |
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Ghana | Abena Achiaa Otuo & Cheryl Appiah-Agyekum | |||
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Greece | Christos Zois | |||
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Guatemala | Juan Pablo Hernandez Paez & Claudia Caceres | |||
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Hong Kong China | Vanessa Wong | |||
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Hungary | Co-administered by the participating coaches. | |||
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India | Anjali Chawla | 13-15 Feb | Jindal Global Law School | |
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Indonesia | Demas Naufal | University Gadjah Mada | ||
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Iran | Ali Masoudian | |||
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Iraq | Sherwan Fatah | |||
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Ireland | ||||
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Italy | Agnese Pizzola | 4-7 Feb | Università degli Studi di Cagliari | Rule Supplement |
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Jamaica | Marc Ramsay | |||
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Japan | Dr. Shotaro Hamamoto | |||
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Kazakhstan | Salim Yusupov | 6-8 Feb | Tashkent State University of Law Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Kenya | Laurene Atieno | 12-13 Feb | ||
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Kuwait | Hannah Abdullah ALebrahim | |||
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Kyrgyzstan | Salim Yusupov | 6-8 Feb | Tashkent State University of Law Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Latin American and Caribbean Friendly | Claudia Caceres & Jessica Zouetr | |||
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Malaysia | ||||
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Mexico | Leonardo Lima | 23-27 Feb | Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico) Mexico City |
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Nepal | Ojaswee Bhattarai | |||
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Netherlands | Maria Fernanda Jaramillo Gomez | 28-30 Jan | Leiden University The Hague |
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Nigeria | Ofure Efeovbokhan & Stanley Alieke | |||
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Oman | Muhammad Shairyar |
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Pakistan | Muhammad Zaman Khan | Denning Law School Karachi |
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Panama | Melanie Quintero | |||
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Philippines | Enrique Dela Cruz | |||
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Poland | Joanna Polatynska | |||
RJT | Evgeniya Neverova | 3-8 Feb | |||
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Romania | Roxanna Nazari | 5-7 Mar | University of Bucharest | |
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Saudi Arabia | Misbah Saboohi | 1-3 Feb | Prince Sultan University | |
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Sierra Leone | Habib Labay Kamara | |||
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South Africa | Roxanna Nazari | 28 Feb-1 Mar | University of Cape Town | Rule Supplement |
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Spain | David Díaz Corcuera | |||
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Tajikistan | Salim Yusupov | 6 - 8 Feb | Tashkent State University of Law Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Tanzania | April Ernest | |||
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Thailand | Kittisak Piriyatanyakom | |||
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Türkiye | Tibet Seheri & Selin Ulger | |||
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Uganda | Brian Kiira | 30-31 Jan | Rule Supplement | |
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Ukraine | Anastasiia Kyiashko | 30 Jan-1 Feb | ||
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United Arab Emirates | Norah Ghuman | 2 Feb | White & Case, Abu Dhabi | |
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United Kingdom | Andrew Holmes | 26 Feb-1 Mar | ||
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United States | Jeffrey Brooks & Jenny Englander | 4-8 Mar | Hilton Atlanta 255 Courtland St NE Atlanta, GA 30303 |
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Uzbekistan | Salim Yusupov | 6-8 Feb | Tashkent State University of Law | |
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Vietnam | Danny Duy & Trung Nguyen | |||
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Zambia | Rapheka Andre Malunga | |||
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Zimbabwe | Chiramba Nyasha |
2026 White & Case International Rounds
Judging White & Case International Rounds
Dates and Location
The 2026 White & Case Jessup International Rounds will be held 28 March to 4 April 2026, in person at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington, DC.
Hotel Information
Hyatt Regency Washington On Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
+1-202-737-1234
About Washington DC
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Resources and Guides for Judges
Below are helpful resources and guides for both returning and new judges. The materials are divided based on resources for oral rounds scoring and grading of the written memorial submissions.
Basic Materials
These materials are intended to give teams a strong foundation with which to begin their research. Teams are not limited to these materials and are strongly encouraged to go beyond them in their research for the Jessup problem. ILSA may update this list on an ad hoc basis.
Updated 8 October 2025
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT)
- Statute of the International Court of Justice
- International Court of Justice cases on intervention
- Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy)
- Case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v Ecuador, Judgment of 27 June 2012 (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Republic of Kenya, Judgment of 26 May 2017, App No 006/2012 (African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights)
- Kebaowek First Nation v Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Judgment of February 19, 2025, 2025 FC 319 (Federal Court of Canada)
- Beijing Urban Construction Group Ltd. v. Republic of Yemen, ICSID Case No. ARB/14/30 (Decision on Jurisdiction, May 31, 2017)
- LG and Others v. Rina and Ente Registro Italiano Navale, Case C-641/18 (May 7, 2020)
- Prosecutor v. Tadic, Trial Chamber Decision on the Defence Motion on the Principle Non-Bis-in-Idem, IT-94-1-T (15 November 1995)
- Paolo Palchetti, "Opening the International Court of Justice to Third States: Intervention and Beyond”, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, vol. 6, no. 1 (2002), pp. 139 - 181
- Juliette McIntyre, “Procedural Values in the Intervention Procedure at the International Court of Justice” 1 Ukrainian Law Review (2022)
- Free, Prior and Informed Consent: A Human Rights-Based Approach: Study of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Doc A/HRC/39/62 (10 August 2018)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples, UN Doc A/HRC/24/41 (1 July 2013)
- International Law Association, Final Report of the Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Sofia Conference (2012)
- Mauro Barelli, “Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Aftermath of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Developments and Challenges Ahead” (2012) 16 International Journal of Human Rights 1-24.
- Views adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, concerning communications No. 251/2022 and No. 289/2022, UN Doc E/C.12/76/D/251/2022 (9 December 2024) [“Finland FPIC Case” or “Kova-Labba Siida Case”]
- Fourth Report of the Special Rapporteur on General Principles of Law (18 February 2025), A/CN.4/785
- Memorandum by the Secretariat, General Principles of Law (12 May 2020), A/CN.4/742
- ILC General Principles of Law, Texts and titles of the draft conclusions adopted by the Drafting Committee (20 May 2025), A/CN.4/L.1018
- Harum Mukhayer, “Transboundary Rights and Indigenous Peoples Between Two or More States”, in Dwight Newman, ed, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights (Edward Elgar 2022), 413-437 - Added 8 October 2025
- Salvador Henrencia-Carrasco & Jordi Feo Valero, “Challenges to the Protection of Consultation in Latin America: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”, in Paul Haslam et al., eds, Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions (Routledge 2026) 229-34 - Added 8 October 2025
- Garnett, Richard, "Foreign State Immunity and the Harassment of Dissidents" [2023] MelbJlIntLaw 11; (2023) 24(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 284 - Added 8 October 2025
Advice for Judges on Giving Feedback
Advice for Judges on Giving Feedback
Financial Support for Judges
The Rusty Dalferes Memorial Fund was established in 2022 to help defray travel costs for dedicated, skilled Jessup judges to attend the White & Case International Rounds. Applications for financial support for judges who wish to attend the 2024 White & Case Jessup International Rounds, 30 March - 6 April 2024 in Washington, D.C., is now open. If you would like to apply, please complete the application form. Applications will be considered as they are submitted. The deadline is December 8, 2023.
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