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PARTICIPATION
WHO ARE THE PARTICIPANTS?

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.

WHO IS IN CHARGE OF ACADEMIC QUALITY?
ACADEMIC BOARD

ELSA is pleased to present the following distinguished WTO law academics as members of the 19th 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

Ms Iryna Polovets

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.

HOW MUCH DOES THE PARTICIPATION COST?

REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee for 19th edition of the John H.Jackson Moot Court Competition is 250€ per team.

VIRTUAL REGIONAL ROUNDS

There is no participation fee for the virtual regional rounds.

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 2020 a letter of motivation, a letter of recommendation and a curriculum vitae.

They will then know if the support will be granted on the 25th of October 2020.

COMPETITION MATERIALS
  • RULES

    The official Rules of the Competition.

  • CASE

    Budica – Measures relating to the importation and marketing of nutrition food bars

    Case Authors: Gustavo Guarín-Duque;

    Julián Becerra-Sánchez;

    Sara Lucía Dangón-Novoa.

    Universidad Externado/Europa- Institut (Saarland University)

    Universidad de los Andes

  • 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.

    The deadline to ask clarification questions is the 15th of November 2020.

  • 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 2020.

  • FORMER EDITIONS

    Find out more about the previous editions, including previous cases, bench memorandums and best written submissions.