ICJ

Hello Everyone! Remember how it felt to be at your first conference? If you haven’t been a part of the ICJ before, that’s precisely how this transition may feel. You have to take everything that you took for granted about an MUN committee and throw it out the window, because in the ICJ you’re going to have to get used to new terminology, procedure, and a fast-paced debate as events unfold right before your eyes. As such, there are crucial details of an ICJ committee that both differentiate it from regular MUN proceedings and create a novel experience for everyone involved. You’re no longer a representative of a country arguing your stance in front of a whole committee. Rather, you’ve now become esteemed judges expected to react to evidence about a real-life situation to create an argument grounded in legal precedent. As such, the first thing that you need to do, is to get into the mindset of analyzing situations from a legal perspective. Does a particular action that a country t