ATTENTION UCU THIRD YEAR LLB STUDENTS
This year UCU has formed its fifth Jessup moot team. We hope that this team will be the fifth team in five years to represent Uganda in the International Round of this prestigious competition.
We have three Fourth Year LLB students on the team. We need to add two Third Year LLB Students to the team. At the present we have failed to identify candidates for these posts on the team. Therefore, we will be organizing an exercise to identify and name the additional team members.
Please note that the Third Year LLB students will not travel to Washington D.C. with the Fourth Year LLB team members unless the Third year team members choose cater for their own travel expenses. Travel expenses are only budgeted for the Fourth Year LLB team members. This is the way we have done things in each of the past four years. However, it should also be noted that Third Year LLB team members are given favoured consideration for placement on the team as Fourth Year LLBs the following year.
With those preliminary words, here is how the assessment/identification process will work:
First students shall access the 2013 Jessup Compromis issued in September, 2012. This is the matter between Alfurna and Rutasia. Links to Compromis in both Word and PDF formats are available on the Internet at:
http://www.ilsa.org/jessuphome/competition-materials
Students are then required to prepare an argument on issue (a) on behalf of Alfurna. This issue is found on paragraph 55 of the Compromis.
Students shall report to the clinical conference room on Saturday the 20th of October at 6:00 p.m. Students shall arrive prepared to offer oral argument on issue (a) on behalf of Alfurna. In addition students shall submit a written legal argument not to exceed 2500 words, including footnotes. You are only to submit the material that would be in the Pleadings section of the Jessup Memorial if the matter was restricted to issue (a). That means that you should not submit a cover page, a table of contents, an index of Authorities, a statement of jurisdiction; questions presented; a statement of facts; or a summary of pleadings. The legal argument can be submitted in hard or soft copy via flash drive or email to dbriandennison@gmail.com
Students will present their oral arguments outside of the presence of other competing students. Each student will be given ten minutes to present an argument on issue (a) on behalf of Alfurna. Excellence guidance on oral arguments and written arguments in the Jessup Competition is available here:
http://jessup.whitecase.com/newsdetail.aspx?news=2450
Students will be evaluated in accordance with official Jessup competition standards with the written submission worth 1/3’s and the oral submission worth 2/3’s of the total point allotment. The highest two performers will be selected.
