LAW4806 · Jessup moot competition

Overview

The Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is conducted each year and runs over the summer semester. Five students will be invited to participate and will be selected each year from those students who have successfully completed the Jessup Moot Seminar unit. The team of five students will work closely in a team to prepare detailed and lengthy written submissions and represent fictional States in a topical hypothetical case before the International Court of Justice. Written memorials are submitted in mid-January each year. The team will then moot against teams from other Australian Universities. The Australian Regional Rounds are usually held in Canberra in the first week of February. The two finalist teams from the Australian Regional Rounds then travel to Washington DC to compete in the International Rounds against teams from around the world. Students participating in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition will, inter alia: (i) acquire and develop proficiency in oral advocacy, legal research and legal writing skills in the highly demanding, yet exciting global context of public international law (ii) develop and broaden their knowledge and expertise in public law and international dispute resolution before the International Court of Justice (iii) experience the concept of through preparation of a particular case on public international law and the opportunity to match their preparation with that of equally prepared students in a national and possibly international competition setting.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Interpret critical components of public law; in particular public international law
2. Examine and critically analyse traditional and emerging areas of international law and key issues of public international law arising out of the annual competition problem (the compromise);
3. Undertake an advanced level of international law legal research and apply legal writing skills associated with the public international law and the International Court of Justice;
4. Construct and develop written and oral legal argument within the context of public international law and the International Court of Justice;
5. Utilise and assimilate the practice and procedures of the International Court of Justice in presenting the written and oral argument;
6. Demonstrate proficiency in oral advocacy practical skills associated with international court of justice;

Workload

The unit requires a higher workload commitment than other units, approximately 150 hours as is required for a 6 credit point unit, during November to February. All students are required to attend an interview, during which the workload requirements are further explained to them.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.