Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court

Use your global education to solve real world problems.

Lewis & Clark Law School is home to a competitive Jessup International Moot Court Team led by long-time coach Dagmar Butte, ‘91. Students can participate in this moot court competition for credit. The school won the national competition in 2007 and is the permanent regional host for the competition as of 2009.

Hosted by the International Law Students Association (ILSA), Jessup is the world’s largest moot court competition, with participants from over 500 law schools in more than 80 countries. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice. Teams prepare oral and written pleadings arguing both the applicant and respondent positions of the case.

Jessup 2013

Coming soon.

The selection process for the 2013 team begins Fall 2012 with the Jessup Moot Court course which serves as the intra-school competition. Interested students should contact Adjunct Professor and Jessup Coach Dagmar Butte via email at db@pbl.net with any questions.

Super Regionals 2012 at Lewis & Clark

On March 5, 2012, Lewis and Clark hosted the Pacific Super Regional where the teams from Hastings and Hawaii advanced to the International Rounds. Many members of the law school community – from Professors and dozens of Alumni who judged to Staff and Student Bailiffs led by the indefatigable Bryan Thompson who ensured everything ran like clockwork - were instrumental in making the event a great success. The participants and their coaches noted this was the best run competition ever and that the judging was superb.  A huge thank you goes out to everyone who had a part in this incredible weekend. We look forward to bringing everyone together again next year, adding a few new and old faces who could not make it this year and making next year even more successful.

The U.S. component of the Jessup Moot Court consists of approximately 144 U.S. law schools competing in six Super Regional Competitions throughout the U.S. The winner and runner-up in each Super Regional advance to the International Rounds in Washington D.C. As we have for the past three years, Lewis & Clark will once again serve as host of the Pacific Super Regional which has been scheduled for March 2-4, 2012. We will be welcoming 24 law schools from throughout the Western United States to our campus for 3 days of exhilarating and exhausting competition and one very lovely awards ceremony. We could not do this without the incredible support of our volunteer judges, bailiffs and the school’s administration, faculty and staff and are very grateful to them for all they do.

Those who participate consider this competition a highlight of the mooting year and a great time is had by all. The Super Regional is a wonderful opportunity for alumni and Jessup supporters as well as members of the bar with a general interest in international law to participate as judges, meet students, connect or re-connect to the law school and earn free CLE credit. In addition, undergraduate, graduate and law students have an opportunity to learn more about public international law by serving as bailiff. Any attorney interested in judging and any student interested in becoming involved as a bailiff should contact Dagmar Butte at db@pbl.net