ILSA News

Congratulations to Sydney Robson of the American University Washington College of Law on winning the 2025 ILSA Student Deak Award presented at the American Society of International Law’s 2025 Annual Meeting last weekend.

The Student Deak Award is given annually to the best international law student article in a student-edited law journal. The award honors Francis Deak, a WWII veteran who wrote extensively on international law. The award is the student corollary to the Deak Prize separately awarded by the American Journal of International Law to a younger author for meritorious scholarship in the prior year’s volume of the Journal.

In addition to receiving the ILSA Student Deak Award, Sydney was a member of her law school’s Jessup team and recently participated in the White & Case International Rounds.

Learn more about the Student Deak Award.

If you weren’t able to attend the Final Rounds of the 2025 White & Case International Rounds or watch it on YouTube, you are probably wondering what next year’s topic will be.

The Jessup 2026 Problem will present the following issues: (1) Who has the right to intervene in proceedings before the International Court of Justice? (2) What are the rights of indigenous peoples relating to rare earth minerals found in their land? (3) What are “the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations”? and (4) When is a state immune from the domestic jurisdiction of another state when it has caused economic harm to citizens of that state?

We expect the problem to be released in September 2025.

Check out this discussion with the authors of the Jessup 2025 Problem, sponsored by the Indiana University Maurer School of Law! Continue reading “Jessup 2025 Problem Authors Discussion, sponsored by the Indiana University Maurer School of Law” →

Congratulations to Singapore Management University School of Law from Singapore on defeating National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from Ukraine in the Final Round of the 2025 White & Case Jessup International Rounds and lifting the White & Case Jessup Cup.

Relive the 2025 World Championship Round on YouTube! Continue reading “2025 White & Case Jessup World Championship Round” →

The three Final Round Judges of the 2025 White & Case International Rounds have been announced! Continue reading “Jessup 2025 Final Round Judges Revealed” →

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is now free and open to all. From Oxford University Press: Continue reading “Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law now open to all” →

The Jessup 2025 White & Case International Rounds Program is now available for download.

A number of Jessup 2025 Teams need financial help to attend the White & Case International Rounds in Washington, DC. You can find a list of teams below that are crowdfunding to finance their trip to DC. We are asking the Jessup community to contribute what they can so that these deserving students can have the life changing experience that they have worked all year for.

• Kathmandu University School of Law (Nepal)
• Georgetown University in Qatar (Qatar)
• National Law University, Jodhpur (India)
• Nepal Law Campus (Nepal)
• New Bulgarian University (Bulgaria)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru)
• Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (India)
• Ukrainian teams – Both Teams have combined their efforts (Ukraine)
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico)
• Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil)
• University of Bucharest (Romania)
• University of Carthage (Tunisia)
• University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

 
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