Jessup 2017

The Case Concerning the Sisters of the Sun

Jessup 2017 Basic Materials

  • UN Charter
  • ICJ Statute
  • Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
  • Articles of Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
  • 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
  • 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
  • 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
  • 1972 World Heritage Convention
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
  • UN General Assembly Resolution 63/124 (Draft Articles of Transboundary Aquifers)
  • UN Guiding Principles of Unilateral Declarations
  • ICESCR General Comment 12 (The Right to Adequate Food)
  • ICESCR General Comment 15 (The Right to Water)
  • Case Concerning the Gabčikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia)
  • Case Concerning the Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay)
  • Nuclear Tests Case (New Zealand v. France)
  • Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand)
  • Case Concerning the Factory at Chorzów (PCIJ)
  • Beyeler v. Italy, App. No. 33202/96, ECHR 2000-I 57, (2001) 33 EHRR 52, IHRL 3137 (ECHR 2000)
  • Katie Sykes, Hunger Without Frontiers: The Right to Food and State Obligations to Migrants, in The International Law of Disaster Relief (David Caron, Michael Kelly, & Anastasia Telestesky, eds., 2014)
  • Marlies Hessleman, Sharing International Responsibility for Poor Migrants: An Analysis of Extra-Territorial Socio-Economic Human Rights Law, 15 Eur. J. Soc. Sec. 187 (2013)
  • Carol Roehrenbeck, Repatriation of Cultural Property: Who Owns the Past? An Introduction to Approaches and to Selected Statutory Instruments, International Journal of Legal Information: Vol. 38: Iss. 2, Article 11 (2010)
  • Gabriel Eckstein & Yoram Eckstein, A Hydrogeological Approach to Transboundary Ground Water Resources and International Law, 19 Amer. Univ. Int’l. L. Rev. 201 (2003)
  • Kanchana Wangkeo, Monumental Challenges: The Lawfulness of Destroying Cultural Heritage During Peacetime, 28 Yale J. Int’l L. 183 (2003)
  • Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Guinea v. Dem. Rep. Congo), Judgment, 2010 I.C.J. Rep. 639
  • Legal Status of Eastern Greenland (Denmark v. Norway), 1993 P.C.I.J. (ser A/B) No. 53
  • Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal), Judgment, 2012 I.C.J. Rep. 422
  • Sufi and Elmi v. United Kingdom, App. Nos. 8319/07 and 11449/07, [2011] ECHR 1045 (2012)
  • Trail Smelter Arbitration (United States v. Canada), 3 U.N. Rep. Int’l Arb. Awards 1905 (1941)
  • Joseph Blocher & Mitu Gulati, Competing for Refugees: A Market-Based Solution to a Humanitarian Crisis, 48 Columbia H.R. L. Rev. 2 (2016)
  • Joseph Fishman, Locating the International Interest in Intranational Cultural Property Disputes, 35 Yale J. Int’l L. 347
  • Francesco Francioni and Federico Lenzerini, The Destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan and International Law, 14 Eur. J. Int’l. L. 619 (2003)
  • Hannah Garry, The Right to Compensation and Refugee Flows: A Preventative Mechanism in International Law, 10 Int’l J. Refugee L. 97 (1998)
  • Luke Lee, The Declaration of Principles of International Law on Compensation to Refugees: Its Significance and Implications, 6 Journal of Refugee Studies 65 (1993)
  • Lucas Lixinski, Selecting Heritage: The Interplay of Art, Politics and Identity, 22(1) Eur. J. Int’l L. 81 (2011).
  • Renee Martin-Nagle, Fossil Aquifers: A Common Heritage of Mankind, 2 Geo. Wash. J. Energy & Envtl. L. 39 (2011)
  • Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Theo van Boven, Study Concerning the Right to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, U.N. Doc. EICN/41 Sub.2/1990/10
  • Transboundary Aquifers: Managing a Vital Resource, Doc. No. SC-2008/WS/35 (UNESCO 2009)