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Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced its sponsorship of 11 Jessup competitions as part of the 54th annual Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Global law firm White & Case LLP announced today that a team of law students from Moscow State University won the 2012 White & Case Jessup Cup as part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The winning team members were Grigory Vaypan, Elena Manasyan, Nataliya Sekretareva, Aleksandra Ivlieva and Olga Nasonova.

Three out of four law students participating in a global survey believe the role of international law is growing stronger worldwide, with nearly half saying that women's rights has been the main beneficiary. According to the results of the poll, 44.6 percent of respondents say that international law supports women's right to a "great extent," while another 43.6 percent say it does to "some extent."

The University of Sydney (Australia) won the White & Case Jessup Cup after facing Columbia University (US) in the World Championship Round. Jennifer Lim, from Columbia University, received the Best Oralist Award. Judge Thomas Buergenthal (former judge at the International Court of Justice), Claudio Grossman (Chair of the UN Committee against Torture and Dean at American University Washington College of Law) and Mark Pieth (Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions) sat on the Final Bench.

While the judges deliberated, Carolyn Lamm, partner in the White & Case Washington, DC office and former Jessup competitor, congratulated all teams on participating in the competition and discussed the skills necessary to practice international law.

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Congratulations to the Jessup team from Australian National University (Australia), winner of the 2010 White & Case Jessup Cup. The runner-up was the team from Columbia Law School (US).

The 2010 White & Case International Rounds began on Sunday, 21 March, and culminated with the World Championship Round on 27 March. With 127 Jessup teams from 76 countries, these were the largest International Rounds in the 51-year Jessup history.

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Students from around Australia will compete at The Australian National University this week to see who has the best grasp of international law and the most effective powers of persuasion. Sixteen teams from Australian universities are meeting at the ANU College of Law for the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition from 2-6 February.

Global law firm White & Case LLP and the International Law Students Association (ILSA) today announced the expansion of its sponsorship of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The expanded sponsorship, which runs through 2012, now includes the 2010 White & Case International Rounds and the White & Case Jessup Cup. The Firm will continue to be an ILSA Global Partner, sponsoring national Jessup competitions and providing other material support.

"The Jessup Competition helps the next generation of international lawyers develop skills they will use throughout their careers," said White & Case Chairman Hugh Verrier. "We are pleased to broaden our support of the Jessup globally."

On February 28, 2009 the national round of the Jessup Moot Court Competition took place at the premises of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court in Brno. This student competition simulates judicial proceedings involving two fictional states taking place before the, also mock, International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Jessup Moot Court Competition is the most important competition in the field of international public law, and this year, it celebrated its 50th anniversary.

The Czech national round was organized under the auspices of the law firm White & Case, which is the global partner of the International Law Student Association (ILSA), the organizer of the competition.

The Jessup UK Mooting Competition, sponsored by White & Case, is being held this weekend with 20 teams taking part in front of a bench that includes Lord Bingham of Cornhill.

Now in its 50th anniversary year, the Jessup is the world's largest annual moot court competition, with more than 2,000 law students from nearly 90 countries. The prize for the winners is a place in the international rounds of the Jessup World Championships in Washington on March 22 to 28.

В Москве прошел отборочный турнир студенческих соревнований в рамках Конкурса по международному праву им. Филипа Джессопа. Абсолютным чемпионом российского этапа конкурса признана команда Нижегородского филиала Высшей школы экономики (ВШЭ).

Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced the first-ever online guide for participants in the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. As part of the Firm's redesigned Jessup website (www.jessup.whitecase.com), the downloadable "White & Case Jessup Guide" is available to help students around the world prepare for and participate in the competition.

Marking its 50th anniversary in 2009, Jessup is the world's largest annual moot court competition, with more than 2,000 law students participating from nearly 90 countries. White & Case is the sole Global Partner of the International Law Students Association (ILSA), administrator of the competition.

"White & Case is pleased to support the development of the world's future lawyers," said White & Case Chairman Hugh Verrier. "International law will play an ever-increasing role in the practice of law around the world, and the knowledge and skills these students are building through the Jessup Competition will position them for long-term success."

The American Lawyer featured an article on the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition and what it has done to promote the "rule of law" throughout the world.  The Jessup started as a small intramural competition at Harvard University and has grown into the world’s largest moot court competition, with more than 500 teams from 80 countries.  As Global Sponsor of the Jessup, White & Case sponsors the national round in nine countries and brings teams from ten developing countries to the final round in Washington, DC.

White & Case has expanded its role as Global Partner of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.  Administered by the International Law Students Association in nearly 90 countries, Jessup is the world's largest moot court competition, with more than 2,000 law students from almost 600 universities around the world participating annually in the competition.

White & Case has received an award for its contribution to the development of Russian legal education.

White & Case LLC, Moscow today announced that it will sponsor the Second Annual Russian National Championship of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition which will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2003. The competition is a public international law advocacy competition in which teams of law students present oral and written pleadings before a simulated International Court of Justice.