Legal Committee (LEGAL)

APPROXIMATE COMMITTEE SIZE: 160 Single Delegations

LEGAL focuses on promoting justice and the rule of international law globally. Topic A will be creating legal protections against foreign election interference, whether through implicit interference through social media or explicit technological interference like cyberattacks. Delegates will consider how to develop frameworks and pathways to protect nations from foreign election interference. Topic B will address the role of multinational corporations in democracy, especially concerning technological cooperation. Delegates will consider whether nations and corporations should be treated equally in diplomacy and how the rules of contact between corporations and nations should be clarified and modernized for the 21st century.

Chairs: Shrutha Venkatesan & Erin Tran

TOPICS

Topic A: Creating Legal Protections Against Foreign Election Interference

Topic B: Addressing the Role of Multinational Corporations in Diplomacy

lEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Gain a deep knowledge of how elections have been affected by foreign states and actors, and the steps nations have taken to protect their electoral processes.

• Explore and examine existing international legal frameworks, and how those frameworks have succeeded and failed in the past. 

• Examine the role multinational corporations are playing in modern diplomacy and how they engage with national governments.

about the chairs

Shrutha Venkatesan is a member of the Class of 2026 in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, majoring in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a Certificate in International Business Diplomacy. She hails from Rockville, Maryland (about 30 minutes away from Georgetown), which is why she is excited to welcome all of you to the DC area this February! Shrutha competed at NAIMUN in her junior and senior years of high school in ECOSOCs, and her experience was so positive that it motivated her to come to Georgetown. She served on secretariat her sophomore year of college as NAIMUN’s Under-Secretary-General of Contemporary Crisis as well as the Director of Philanthropy for NCSC, NAIMUN’s sister conference. As a result, she is incredibly excited (and sad!) to be staffing her final NAIMUN. Other than Model UN, Shrutha is also involved with Georgetown’s Dharmic Meditation Center, Hilltop Consultants (an on-campus consulting club), and most recently studied abroad in Singapore her junior spring (ask her about it!). She can’t wait to meet all of you!