rules and timetables

Rules & Timetables:

links to ILSA Competition Schedule and Official Rules (which govern the 2010 White & Case International Rounds)

APPROVED WHITE & CASE CANADIAN TOURNAMENT RULES - approved by ILSA: September 22, 2009

WHITE & CASE CANADIAN TOURNAMENT TIMETABLE - current as of September 15, 2009

WHITE & CASE INTERNATIONAL ROUNDS (March 21 to 27, 2010 - Washington, D.C.) - only applicable to advancing teams

WHITE & CASE CANADIAN TOURNAMENT SCORESHEETS

Memorial Pleading Scoresheet (Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)) -- Note: The official Canadian Tournament Memorial Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for Memorials at the 2010 White & Case Canadian Tournament.

Oral Pleading Scoresheet (Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)) -- Note: The official Canadian Tournament Oral Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for oral rounds at the 2010 White & Case Canadian Tournament. This document consists of two forms of the scoresheet: the short form and the optional long form.

WHITE & CASE INTERNATIONAL ROUNDS SCORESHEETS

Memorial Pleading Scoresheet -- Note: The link to the official ILSA Memorial Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for Memorials at the 2010 White & Case International Rounds.

Oral Pleading Scoresheet -- Note: The link to the official ILSA Oral Pleading Scoresheet is here only to provide guidance as to the scoring criteria for oral rounds at the 2010 White & Case International Rounds.

RECOMMENDED CITATION SYSTEMS:

Official Rule 6.6: Citations appearing in the Index of Authorities and footnotes of the Memorial must include a description of each authority adequate to allow a reasonable reader to identify and locate the authority in a publication of general circulation.

**NOTE: In accordance with instructions from ILSA, as of the 2009 competition year, the Canadian Tournament Timetable and Rules will no longer be made available in French. ILSA has directed that only English versions of the Rules will be approved and made official by the ILSA Executive Office, and that there should not be any unofficial versions (i.e. versions in other languages) in circulation as such versions will have no force and effect.

The White & Case Canadian National Division Qualifying Tournament*

of the 2010 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

March 10 to 13, 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Most documents on this website are available

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For More Information:

(Miss) Jamie Dee Larkam

Canadian National Administrator

Jessup Canada

c/o UPS Store #253, Suite #505

203 - 304 Main Street

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada T4B 3C3

home office telephone: 403-912-5127 ( voicemail monitored 24 hours, 7 days/week )

home office fax: 403-948-5234

cellphone: 403-613-5127

e-mail: jdlarkam@aol.com ( e-mail monitored 24 hours, 7 days/week )

alternate e-mail: jdlarkam@jessupcanada.org

Skype users can make a free Skype-to-Skype call

(SKYPE name: jdlarkam)

2011 Competition: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 2 to 5, 2011, at the Westin Calgary (www.westincalgary.com)

2012 Competition: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 7 to 10, 2012, at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth (www.fairmont.com/queenelizabeth)

2013 Competition: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, March 6 to 9, 2013, at the Ambassador Conference Resort (www.ambassadorhotel.com)

2014 Competition: Windsor, Ontario, Canada, March 12 to 15, 2014, at Caesars Windsor (www.caesarswindsor.com)

2015 Competition: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, dates to be determined

web site last updated: January 9, 2010

* Note: The purpose of the White & Case Canadian Tournament is to determine the top Canadian teams which will go on

to the White & Case International Rounds to compete for the White & Case Jessup Cup.

www.jessup.whitecase.com -- www.ilsa.org/jessup

Citation systems recommended by ILSA:

1) The Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (Thomson Carswell, 6th ed. 2006) (“McGill Guide”)

Registered Jessup participants (Team members, Coaches, Faculty Advisors, Administrators, and Judges) have complimentary access to a password- and print-protected electronic version of the McGill Guide. Contact the Canadian National Administratorfor password and access instructions.

2) ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (Association of Legal Writing Directors, 3rd ed. 2005), available for purchase

at: http://www.alwd.org/publications/citation_manual.html.

3) The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (University of Oxford, 2006), available at:

http://www.competition-law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola_2006.pdf.

4) The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Harvard Law Review Association, 18th ed. 2005), available for

purchase at http://www.legalbluebook.com.

5) Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (LII, Peter Martin, 2007 ed.), available at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation.