This year’s Philip C. Jessup competition, addresses important and timely issues regarding intervention and state sovereignty, which was communicated in the main event poster and supporting collateral. The event is widely recognized as the world’s largest, most prestigious moot court competition focusing on public international law.
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To enhance interest for the firm’s annual Corporate Governance Symposium, the 2008 panelists performed “playlets” that directly related to executive compensation. The event took on the theme of a murder mystery which was carried out in the save-the-date, invitation, event reminder and symposium poster.

Shearman & Sterling wanted to improve its own eco-footprint on a firm-wide scale and believed that utilizing the intranet to do so was the most eco-friendly, accessible and effective way to reach the audience. An eco logo was designed to appear on various collateral and the firm’s intranet site as part of this initiative. An on-going series of posters were also created to encourage environmental awareness and employee participation. The posters are made available to the firm’s 19 offices through the intranet site to print on an as needed basis.
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A poster for the 2008 Fordham University Alumni exhibhition comprising of a magnet attracting the names of 16 alumni artists from various concentrations in the visual arts program whose recent work in paintings, drawings, photography and design were showcased in the biennial event. The design was first used for the exbhitition mailing and then as a poster for the event.

Shearman & Sterling is the sponsor of the world’s largest moot court competition focusing on Public International Law issues. The challenge for the 2008 event was communicating the theme concerning terrorism and human rights in the main posters and event collateral. The event posters needed to illicit a gut reaction of sympathy and outrage in the audience for the applicant and the respondent. In keeping with the nature of the case and a limited budget, propaganda techniques were applied to the event posters and accompanying collateral. In order to make the posters and fictional case believable creating text by hand and limiting the use of colors were explored. The feedback received from the students was very positive – all felt the posters did an excellent job of communicating the essence of the trial and there has been a subsequent demand for the event materials post-competition.

Argued by law student participants from more than 75 countries around the world, the 2007 moot court case, raises issues of state membership in international organizations. Produced with a minimal budget, the event collateral gives the audience a glimpse into the life of the minority population likely to be affected most by the trial.
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