The Stanford Law School Jessup Moot Court team took the regional championship earlier this year and, for the first time in the 55-year history of the competition, advanced to the White & Case International Rounds. With more than 600 teams from more than 90 countries participating, the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is not only the largest moot competition in the world—but also one of the most challenging.

“Winning the regional competition was the culmination of months of research and moot practices,” said Delsey Horton, LLM ’15. “The team was excited to represent Stanford Law and the U.S. at the International Rounds.”

In this year’s dispute simulation before an International Court of Justice, students argued cases arising from this season’s “Jessup Problem”: the secession of one province of a nation and its subsequent annexation into another.  The SLS team—including Horton, John Kenney, JD ’16, Cassandra Kildow, JD ’16, Giulia Scelzo, JD ’16, Udit Sood, LLM ’15, Vivek Tata, JD ’16, and Mengyi Xu, JD ’17—was one of only twelve from the U. S. to proceed to the international rounds, which were held in Washington, D.C., in April.  The University of Sydney (Australia) team prevailed.