 Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition is an annual competition where teams from law schools and certain undergraduate programs from around the world compete in mock litigation before the International Court of Justice over a period about seven days in Washington DC. GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council, Jessup Friendly and Kuwait that we attended this year was actually the first iteration of this regional round. The Kuwait International Law School generously hosted the competition and they promised that they'll be hosting it in the future. We were one of four or five teams invited, I believe, from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. This year the American University of Sharjah's Moot Court team consisted of undergraduate students Shahad Abdul-Diam sitting next to me as well as two others, Jamil Haddad and Hassan Salman. We had two others who unfortunately couldn't make it to the the final international rounds in Washington DC, helping us earlier, Seral Hafan and Nasser Alam Wahi. To prepare for the Jessup competition, team members have to engage in genuine legal research. The Moot Court course is entirely problem-oriented. The single goal is to win the Jessup competition. I won the best respondent award at the first GCC, Jessup Friendly. What a respondent basically does is they argue against the arguments of the other side and the way that they decide who is awarded these awards is based on several criteria, mostly their knowledge of the law, their ability to answer questions very articulately and as well as their ability to basically just convey themselves in a very eloquent manner. So this competition really mostly just helped me know what my area of interest is. Ever since I took Moot Court in my junior year, I really got the feeling that I'm interested in international law and I'm considering pursuing law as a graduate degree now.