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The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s oldest and largest moot court competition, bringing together participants from over 680 law schools in 100 countries each year. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations.
The Jessup case (Compromis) is annually released in September, and addresses the timeliest issues of public international law. After the Compromis is released, students begin researching and preparing written and oral arguments for both sides of the dispute, and then compete against one another in the National Rounds for the right to represent their countries in Washington D.C, USA.

The 2021 Jessup problem will address

a global pandemic, and the obligations and responses of States with respect to the outbreak. It will also involve questions of the jurisdiction of the Court, a desperate claim for political asylum by an alleged rogue scientist, and State responsibility for a suspicious aircraft explosion.

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