Requirements

Requirements for participation

Interest in International Law, but previous knowledge is not a prerequisite for selection to the team! What is counts is your motivation, ability to work in a team and creativity.

The Jessup Case 2027 will present the following issues:(1) allegations of gender apartheid; (2) State responses to a mass influx of migrants seeking asylum; (3) sanction designations generated by artificial intelligence; and all of this in the wake of (4) a coup d’etat, resulting in a government whose status within the international community remains contested.

Benefits:

• As a participant, you will receive rhetoric and writing training in Legal English as well as sponsored trips to the European Friendly Rounds and the International Rounds in Toronto.
  Afterwards, you can publish your knowledge in the Austrian Review of International and European Law.
• You will become part of the Jessup Alumni and can expand your professional network at our annual association meetings.
• The Jessup International Law Moot Court can be credited as 2 seminars, foreign language competence, 6 hours of elective courses and as a doctoral seminar. In addition, the memorial and pleading can also be credited as a Bachelor's thesis in the IREWI programme.