Teams participating in the Competition shall consist of 2 to 4 law students, who are enrolled at a university or law faculty accredited under national law to grant a degree that permits its graduates to enter any legal profession. Every team is allowed to register up to 2 coaches. We accept one team per university or law faculty.
PARTICIPATION
ACADEMIC BOARD
ELSA is pleased to present the following distinguished WTO law academics as members of the 20th edition of the Academic Board.
Ms Marisa Goldstein
Prof. Markus Wagner
Dr. Dylan Geraets
Prof. Padideh Alai’i
Dr. Gracia Marin-Duran
Prof. Henry Gao
Dr. Jan-Yves Remy
Dr. Rodrigo Polanco
Dr. Weiwei Zhang
Ms Altagracia Cuevas-Arthur
Dr. Maria Anna Corvaglia
Prof. Edna Ramirez Robles
Dr. Vitaliy Pogoretskyy
Ambassador Santiago Wills
Dr. James J. Nedumpara
Mr Miguel Villamizar
Ms Kholofelo Kugler
PANELLISTS
The Panel consists of world trade law experts willing to be active at the hearings. They are appointed by ELSA with the supervision of the Academic Board of the Competition.
REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee for 20th edition of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition is 250€ per team.
REGIONAL ROUNDS
There is no participation fee for the virtual regional rounds. The physical regional rounds will be communicated very soon.
PARTICIPATION FEE FOR FINAL ORAL ROUND
The participation fee for the Final Oral Round in Geneva is 700€ per team and 150€ per each coach.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The teams can apply for financial support to ELSA International.
It may cover the totality or half of the 250 euros of the registration fee.
The teams can apply to this support while registering for the competition.
For this, they need to submit before the 15th of October 2021 a letter of motivation, a letter of recommendation and a curriculum vitae.
- RULES
The official Rules of the Competition.
- CASE
Alderaan – Measures concerning permanent magnet generators for windmills
Case Authors: Victor Crochet;
Marcus Gustafsson.
- TIMELINE
Official Appendix A to the Rules of the Competition.
- EXAMPLE OF WRITTEN SUBMISSION COVER
Official Appendix B to the Rules of the Competition.
- GUIDELINES FOR WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS
Official Appendix C to the Rules of the Competition.
- GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PLEADINGS
Official Appendix D to the Rules of the Competition.
- CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS
Each team registered to the competition may submit up to five clarification questions concerning the case, that will be forwarded and answered by the Case Author if the questions are not substantially answering to the Case or relevant (appreciation by the Case Authors and the Academic Board)
- TEAM ALLOCATION LIST
The allocation list is created for the European teams. The teams will be assigned to one of the Virtual Regional Rounds by lottery.
This document will be published on the 5th of December 2021.
- FORMER EDITIONS
Find out more about the previous editions, including previous cases, bench memorandums and best written submissions.