The Eugene Scassa Mock OAS Program & Conferences
Celebrating our 29th annual Collegiate Summit of the Americas Conference and our 31st year

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Upcoming Events

The 29th Annual ESMOAS Summit of the Americas Conference & Competition will be held November 14-16, 2025 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.    Information on the conference and associated due dates and logistical details can be found HERE.

Recaps

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The 10th annual Inter-American Court of Human Rights Moot Court Competition was held March 28-29 at St. Mary's University Law School.  A recap of the conference and final awards can be found here.
The IACHR Moot Court competition, held every spring, pits teams of two students each against each other in a moot court format.  Student teams represent both the State and the Petitioner side in separate hearings in front of a panel of judges.  They must try a hypothetical human rights case similar to those heard in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and submit written legal memorials and oral arguments. The competition begins with oral arguments presented online to a panel of judges one week before the conference.  This seeds a double-elimination tournament held during the Conference.
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The 28th Annual ESMOAS Summit of the Americas competition and conference was held on November 8-10, 2024, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.  
The Summit of the Americas competition, held each November, is comprised of teams from universities in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean who represent assigned member states of the OAS in a model-UN style format.  Each team of 4-7 students represents one country across four topical committees.  Students submit and debate resolutions on assigned topics, and deal with a hypothetical crisis scenario.  General Committee delegates have the opportunity to emulate their country's head of state in a mock Summit of the Americas meeting.

For more information on the Summit of the Americas, click here
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The 2024 Parliamentary Workshop and Summit of the Americas Scrimmage was held September 28, 2024, at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.   Approximately eighty students participated in this one day workshop, in which delegates learned and practiced various aspects of parliamentary procedure, participated in networking opportunities with other participants in the ESMOAS Summit of the Americas competition, and drafted resolutions to be debated at the forthcoming conference.