The Basic Materials are a collection of research materials, designed to ensure that all teams, regardless of budget and access to information,
start from the same position. All Basic Materials will be posted to the ILSA Jessup website.
The Second Batch of Materials is based upon requests from teams and usually includes a variety of treaties, case law, and secondary sources.
Teams may suggest documents to be included in the Second Batch of Basic Materials.
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For More Information:
(Miss) Jamie Dee Larkam
Canadian National Administrator
Jessup Canada
c/o UPS Store #253, Suite #505
203 - 304 Main Street
Airdrie, Alberta, Canada  T4B 3C3

home office telephone: 403-912-5127 ( voicemail monitored 24 hours, 7 days/week )
home office fax: 403-948-5234
cellphone: 403-613-5127
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** UPDATED White & Case Jessup Guide **

ILSA is delighted to announce the release of the UPDATED White & Case Jessup Guide, now available on White & Case's website at:
http://jessup.whitecase.com/competitors/

The White & Case Jessup Guide was updated for the 2010 Jessup season
and features instructional video clips to accompany the Jessup Oral Pleadings section of the Guide.

The White & Case Jessup Guide is a student-focused “how-to” manual containing recommendations on working with the Jessup Compromis, researching international law, writing Jessup memorials, Jessup oral pleadings, and using Jessup skills in your legal career.  Each year, thousands of law students from around the world participate in the Jessup, many of whom are first-time competitors or come from countries where mooting is not part of the traditional legal education curriculum.  With this in mind, the White & Case Jessup Guide was created to provide these students with advice on preparing for, participating in, and learning from the Jessup. 

We hope that Jessup competitors and their coaches will find the White & Case Jessup Guide a valuable resource for successful participating in the Jessup and getting the most out of the Competition’s many educational and professional opportunities.
Most documents on this website are available
in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf). If you do not have Adobe Reader, click the button for a free download.
2012 Competition: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 7 to 10, 2012, at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth (www.fairmont.com/queenelizabeth)
2013 Competition: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, March 6 to 9, 2013, at the Ambassador Conference Resort (www.ambassadorhotel.com)
2014 Competition: Windsor, Ontario, Canada, March 12 to 15, 2014, at Caesars Windsor (www.caesarswindsor.com)
2015 Competition: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, dates to be determined
2016 Competition: host school to be determined, dates to be determined
web site last updated: February 4, 2012
* Note: The purpose of the White & Case Canadian Tournament is to determine the top Canadian teams which will go on
to the White & Case International Rounds to compete for the White & Case Jessup Cup.
www.jessup.whitecase.com -- www.ilsa.org/jessup
2017 Competition: host school to be determined, dates to be determined
Information on Judging at the Canadian Tournament:
** IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ BEFORE COMPLETING ON-LINE REGISTRATION **

- (oral round judge advance registration deadline: January 9, 2012)
( Note: If, for any reason, you are unable to submit the above Canadian Judge Registration Form on-line,
  please feel free to download and complete the Word version and then fax to: 403-948-5234. )
ILSA's General Invitation to Judge at other National and Regional Rounds - various places, various dates - to be added January 2012
ILSA's General Invitation to Judge at International Rounds in Washington, D.C. - to be added January 2012
** VERY IMPORTANT: **

Acting as either a Memorial Judge or an Oral Round Judge (with the exception of Team Advisors) gives you access to the Bench Memorandum.
ILSA has asked that anyone being given access to the Bench Memorandum be advised of the following:

1) The Bench Memorandum is a confidential document and should be read only by judges and competition staff. Every possible measure must be taken in order to maintain the confidentiality of the Bench Memorandum, including compliance with the following two rules:
(a) Do not leave copies of the Bench Memorandum lying in public places; and 
(b) Do not, in any circumstance, distribute the Bench Memorandum to competitors, not even after regional and national competitions.

2) The contents of the Bench Memorandum will remain confidential until after the conclusion of the International Rounds on March 31, 2012.

3) The Bench Memorandum is copyright protected. Any entity that is not affiliated with ILSA or the Jessup Competition must request permission to use or reproduce any portion of the Bench Memorandum.

4) The Bench Memorandum is an evolving document. As the competition year progresses, new versions of the Bench Memorandum will become available. ILSA encourages judges and competition staff to make sure they possess the most recent version of the Bench Memorandum.

5) Under the Official Rules of the Competition, as well as the Canadian Rules, teams may not be practice judged by any person who has access to the Bench Memorandum. Accordingly, once a judge has received the Bench Memorandum, he or she should not take part in practice rounds with teams. This could result in the disqualification of the team.

**Please Note: The practice judging prohibition applies to any person given access to the Bench Memorandum. Even if you do not read the Bench Memorandum, after you have been given access, you are prohibited from acting as a practice round judge. If you anticipate acting as a practice round judge for any Team, please advise the Canadian National Administrator, so that access to the Bench Memorandum can be withheld until such time as you have completed your practice round judging duties.
** IMPORTANT **:  Canadian Rule 3.8
Following submission of their memorials but prior to competing at the Canadian National Tournament
(i.e. from January 11 to March 7, 2012), teams are permitted to organize "practice rounds"
where the students presenting the oral arguments for the Applicants and the oral arguments for the Respondents are from the same team.

Once a judge registers to judge, either memorials and/or oral rounds, at the Canadian National Tournament or the White & Case International Rounds or any other national or regional Jessup tournament, restrictions are placed on this judge's availability to judge practice rounds.

Registered judges will be given access to the Bench Memorandum. Once a judge receives access to the Bench Memorandum, whether or not the judge actually reads the Bench Memorandum, this judge can no longer act as a practice round judge.
Teams utilizing a practice judge that has been given access to the Bench Memorandum will be penalized and could be disqualified.

Once you have registered to judge at the Canadian National Tournament, if you are contacted by a team to act as a practice round judge,
you must immediately contact the Canadian National Administrator.
If you have not yet been given access to the Bench Memorandum, you may be able to still act as a practice round judge and then be given access to the Bench Memorandum after you have completed your practice round judging duties.

If you are unable to attend the Canadian National Tournament, but are interested in assisting teams with practice rounds, please contact the Canadian National Administrator for contact info for the coach(es). Please note that the Canadian National Administrator is not responsible for organizing practice rounds, but Jessup Canada is happy to assist with passing along potential practice judge contact information to teams. 
White & Case Canadian Tournament Memorial Pleading Scoresheet (Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf))
Note: The official Canadian Tournament Oral Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for Memorials at the 2012 White & Case Canadian Tournament.
Official Rule 6.6: Citations appearing in the Index of Authorities and footnotes of the Memorial must include a description of each authority adequate to allow a reasonable reader to identify and locate the authority in a publication of general circulation.
Citation systems recommended by ILSA:

1) The Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (Thomson Carswell, 7th ed. 2010) (“McGill Guide”)

  access to a password- and print-protected excerpted electronic version of the McGill Guide.
  Contact the Canadian National Administrator for password and access instructions.


2) ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (Association of Legal Writing Directors, 4th ed. 2010), available for purchase
at: http://www.alwd.org/publications/citation_manual.html.

3) The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (University of Oxford, 4th ed. 2011) and The OSCOLA 2006: Citing International Law
(University of Oxford, 2006), available at: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php.

4) The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Harvard Law Review Association, 19th ed. 2010), available for
purchase at http://www.legalbluebook.com.

5) Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (LII, Peter Martin, 2010 ed.), available at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation.
Links to Individual MEMORIAL Judge Pages: ( password required to access )
White & Case Canadian Tournament Oral Pleading Scoresheet (Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf))
Note: The official Canadian Tournament Memorial Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for Memorials at the 2012 White & Case Canadian Tournament.

(Please note that the judging schedule is still subject to considerable change. If there are any changes applicable to your individual judging
session(s), you will be advised. Please check the date on the top of the Schedule to ensure that you have the latest version.)
As shown on the above linked "Complete Oral Round Judging Schedule",
please note the following times that you are asked to be onsite and available at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth:

Thursday, March 8th, Round One: 8:30am to 11:30am
Thursday, March 8th, Round Two: 11:30am to 2:30pm
Thursday, March 8th, Round Three: 2:30pm to 5:30pm
optional Thursday evening rounds (if needed): 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Friday, March 9th, Round Four: 8:30am to 11:30am
Friday, March 9th, Round Five: 11:30am to 2:30pm
Friday, March 9th, Round Six: 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Saturday, March 10th, Final Rounds: 9:30am to 5:30pm

Oral arguments will begin on Thursday and Friday at 9:00am, 12:00pm and 3:00pm,
but all judges are asked to be onsite at least 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the round.

Preliminary round alternates on Thursday and Friday are asked to attend at the relevant time listed above,
so that they are onsite and able to fill in as last minute replacements
required by last minute unanticipated cancellations or conflicts.

Final Round Oral arguments will begin on Saturday at 1:30pm, but all final round judges are asked to be onsite no later than 9:30am, in order that the final round judges have sufficient time to evaluate the memorials of the advancing teams. Note: Under the Rules, final round panels must now read and score the advancing memorials before the oral rounds begin.

The Final Round Panels will be confirmed at approximately 8:30am on Saturday morning.
Alternates may be needed depending upon which teams advance and if there are cancellations.
A judge cannot judge the same team both in the preliminary rounds and the final rounds - this is a conflict.
Links to Individual ORAL ROUND Judge Pages: ( password required to access )
BASIC JUDGING MATERIALS:
(Please note that additional confidential judging materials will be provided on each judge's individual web page. However, as these web pages will not be made available to judges until January 2012, the following documents are provided to those judges who want more information on this year's problem.
These same materials have been provided to all participants in the Jessup Competition and form the basis for their arguments.)
** CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION CREDIT **

Jessup Canada is pleased to announce that, for those oral round judges who are actively practising members of one of the Canadian provincial law societies, it may be possible to obtain Continuing Professional Development/Continuing Legal Education credit. Judging the oral rounds of the Canadian Jessup Tournament is considered as “teaching the professional skills of advocacy”. For example, in Ontario, 6 hours of credit may be counted for each oral round judged but one must apply in advance of judging to be eligible for credit. In British Columbia, 6 hours of credit may be counted for each oral round judged but one applies for credit following the completion of one’s judging duties. As each provincial law society has different CPD/CLE requirements and different processes for recording CPD/CLE hours, judges are encouraged to contact their relevant law societies for more information. Jessup Canada will provide each oral round judge with an attendance certificate to confirm the judge’s involvement as a judge at the oral rounds. Unfortunately, CPD/CLE credit cannot be obtained if one acts only as a memorial judge.
** NEW White & Case Jessup Judge Training Videos **

In an effort to help prepare judges for the Jessup Competition, ILSA's Global Partner and International Rounds Sponsor,
White & Case LLP, has created a series of Jessup Judge Training videos.
These videos review the judging materials, the structure of the oral rounds, and how to evaluate oral pleadings.
Role playing and video clips of actual Jessup oral rounds are included to demonstrate points.
We hope that judges and teams alike will find these training videos a valuable resource when preparing for the Jessup Competition.
The videos are available at:  http://jessup.whitecase.com/judges/.

** CAUTIONARY NOTE:  While there can be no question of the value of the White & Case Jessup Judge Training Videos,
the Canadian National Administrator wants to caution both students and judges that there are a wide variety of judging styles.
Noticeable differences in judging styles exist between American-trained and Canadian-trained Jessup judges in particular.
The Training Videos are merely intended to be samples of suggested judging techniques.
It is only reasonable to expect that actual courtroom interactions between students and judges may differ from those shown in the videos.
Invitation to Submit Proposals for 2013 Jessup Problem - to be added February 2012
The White & Case Canadian National Division Qualifying Tournament*
of the 2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
March 7 to 10, 2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2012 Jessup Topic:

The ILSA Board of Directors has selected the 2012 Compromis
and has provided the following brief description:

The 2012 Jessup Problem involves a dispute between two states over the destruction
of a cultural site of great significance and the important question of who gets to represent
a state internationally in the immediate aftermath of a coup d'etat.
It also involves international responsibility for the use of force by one state
while taking part in a regional operation to bring about democracy.