Moot Court: Jessup

The class builds on the classes of International Law and Advanced International Law, dealing with a judicial dispute before the International Court of Justice. The classes will have different approaches: a few lectures will be dedicated to specific topics; in many cases students will be asked to present orally their claims in a moot trial; students will correct written briefs with the professor. The aim of the class is to deepen the knowledge of public international law, to learn how to write a written brief in English, and to acquire public speaking skills.
The class will be tought in connection to the oldest moot competition for law students, the Jessup Moot Competition (https://www.ilsa.org/about-jessup/). Since 2014 the Universitty of Milan participates to the Italian rounds, and in some occasions has been invited to the international rounds in Washington DC.
The competition is divided in two phases: during the first one, students will be asked to draft two legal briefs about a dispute described every year by ILSA, the Jessup organizing association, as the applicant and the respondent party. During the second phase all the Italian teams will gather (usually in February) to challenge each other in a moot trial, in English, before a panel of three jurists.

- Knowledge and understanding: students shall know the main legal issues concerning public international law;
- Applying knowledge and understanding: students shall be able to employ notions acquired during the class to a specific legal dispute;
- Making judgements: students shall be able to make accurate judgments on public international law, developing an advance legal research and advocacy skills;
- Communication: students shall be able to understand issues of public international law, using the appropriate terminology;
- Lifelong learning skills: students shall acquire advance legal skills, public speaking, and how to work in a team.