Jessup History

Jessup 2025

The Case Concerning the Naegea Sea

Jessup 2025 Basic Materials

International Agreements

  • Statute of the International Court of Justice
  • United Nations Charter
  • Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
  • ICCPR
  • ICESCR
  • UNCLOS
  • United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property
  • International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

ICJ and PCIJ Cases

  • SS ‘Lotus’ (France v Turkey), Judgment, 7 September 1927
  • Phosphates in Morocco (Italy v France) (Preliminary Objections), Judgement, 14 June 1938
  • Colombian Peruvian asylum case (Colombia v. Peru), Judgment, November 20th, 1950
  • Right of Passage over Indian Territory (Portugal v. India) (Merits), Judgment, 12 April 1960
  • Arrest Warrant of 1I April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium), Judgment, 14 February 2002 
  • Certain Property (Liechtenstein v Germany) (Preliminary Objections), Judgment, 10 February 2005
  • Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), Judgment, 13 July 2009
  • Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy, Greece intervening), Judgment, 3 February 2012
  • Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal), Judgment, 20 July 2012
  • Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. The Russian Federation) (Preliminary Objections), 2 February 2024
  • Other Courts and Adjudicative Bodies
  • Aguilar-Amory and Royal Bank of Canada Claims (Great Britain v Costa Rica) (1923) I UNRIAA 375
  • Regina v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3) [2000] 1 AC 147
  • Zitha and Zitha v Mozambique, African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Comm No. 361/08 (1 April 2011).
  • The Determination of the Office of the Prosecutor on the Communication Received in Relation to Egypt’ (Press release, 8 May 2014) (ICC-OTP-20130508-PR1003)

Publicists

  • Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) (2001) with Commentary
  • Fourth (Final) Report of the International Law Association, Recognition/Non-recognition in International Law (2018)
  • ILC, Report of the International Law Commission (2022), UN doc A/77/10, draft articles on immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction adopted on first reading with commentaries
  • 2023 Report of the Study Group of the International Law Commission on “Sea-level rise in relation to international law”
  • ILC, Conclusions on the Identification of Customary International Law (2018) and Commentary
  • ILC, Conclusions on Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Relation to the Interpretation of Treaties (2018) and Commentary
  • Lagerwall and Hebert-Dolbec, Universal Jurisdiction, Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, July 2022
  • Pavlopoulos, The Identity of Governments in International Law (OUP 2024) ch 4.
  • Report of the International Law Association, International Law and Sea-Level Rise (2024)
  • Tomuschat, Christian, ‘Article 36’, in Andreas Zimmermann, and others (eds), The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, 3rd Edition, Oxford Commentaries on International Law (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic).
  • Second Report on Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction by Claudio Grossman Guiloff, Special Rapporteur, A/CN.4/780