Akhror participated in Jessup as a member of WIUT’s Jessup Team in 2017.
Why Jessup?
Jessup is about internationally law that scholars do not write, professors do not teach and the International Court of Justice do not judge the case prior to Jessupers. It is about awesome young international law community burning for knowledge gathering in one place to challenge the outmost issues of the world. The competition continuously opens its arms to welcome new teams across the world. The International Rounds demonstrates the true spirit of Jessup, which is two States without any previous diplomatic relations or even without the knowledge of their existence working side by side in a courteous and welcoming environment.
How has Jessup experience changed you?
Jessup is beyond learning law at University or just a teamwork. Experiencing the level of intense pressure, reading and researching required for the world’s most undisputed problems, burying myself in Mountains of legal papers together with my peers, all is in itself the experience that I could not gain at an educational establishment. However, handling those hardships by putting all the work and research on some countable number of papers and delivering the arguments to the world’s most respected judges and law practitioners in a sound and eloquent manner within strictly limited time is the next level experience I could have possibly gifted to myself over the period of my Jessup journey. Once you do Jessup you see international law far more different from finely contextualized textbooks.
What was the most memorable moment of your participation in the Jessup?
Beyond any doubt, the competition does not merely refer to reading and research. Once your team advances to the international rounds, true spirit of the competition casts its shadow with various exciting events and that is where all the hard-work you and your learned peers have gone through, pays off. Certainly, Go National Ball has been the best part and dearest that I would love to remember. More than six hundred students representing over a hundred and forty nations dressed up their national costumes, dancing under harmony for songs of different nations, feeling excited, feeling friendly, and feeling warmly welcomed to the journey of Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in dedication to the world peace that the young generation wants.
What advice would you give to the future generations of Jessup participants?
You, as a participant, should not only aim for the win and forget the rest of flavors. However, you are strongly encouraged to master your part from the compromise, polish your arguments before the International Rounds commence. Thus, never substitute your moment of having fun and making friends to being a boring bookworm who sits at the apartment and thinks of winning all the time. That is wrong! The principal purpose of Jessup is not to teach international law or award you with a cup, but rather it is to gather people who are willing to make change for their future and for the future of just and fair World and inspire them to make it happen. Throughout your journey whatever comes out of your way against your long-built-perfectly-formed argument, do not be in a hurry to throw all the papers, but stay focused and you will find the way out and there is always counter argument in Jessup that you did not think of in advance. At the end, stay alert of the Traffic Lights!