Moot Court: ABA Negotiation

School Competition

Limit: 20 students

Everyone negotiates, and lawyers negotiate more than most people. The purpose of this course is twofold: To study and practice effective negotiating strategies and techniques and to prepare students for the School ABA Negotiation Competition.

Students will study materials on negotiation, conduct negotiations, and critique recorded and actual simulations. This course requires intensive teamwork, class discussion and coordination of schedules. The negotiation scenarios simulate legal negotiations in which law students (usually acting as lawyers), negotiate a series of legal problems. The simulations consist of a common set of facts known by all participants and confidential information known only to the participants representing a particular side. All of the competition simulations deal with the same general topic, but the negotiation situation varies with each round and level of the competition.

Class will meet twice weekly until the School Competition.

Given the intensive class structure and schedule, the professor will not allow drops or adds after September 4th, 2008.

Class attendance and participation in the School Competition (tentatively scheduled for either Saturday, October 18th or 25th, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) is mandatory.

Between two and six students will be chosen from the School Competition to represent the law school at the Regional Competition. The Regional Competition will take place either November 1st – 2nd or November 8th - 9th. The location of the Regional Competition this year is University of Alberta (Canada). The exact date will be announced at a later date.

Students who compete in the Regional Competition may be eligible to receive an additional credit hour. † (See Regional Competition description below).

Each year the ABA Law Student Division and the Young Lawyer's Division sponsor a National Negotiation Competition. The National Competition will be held in conjunction with the ABA mid-year meeting on February 13th - 14th, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts.

This year’s topic for all Negotiation Competitions is ELDER LAW.

Enrollment is limited to 20 students, a minimum of eight students necessary.

Regional Competition

Between two and six students will be selected from the intraschool competition to participate in the Regional Negotiation Competition to represent Northwestern School of Law to be held on either November 3th - 5th or November 10th - 12th. The exact date will be determined by the ABA Law Student Division and the Young Lawyer’s Division. The selected students are eligible to add and enroll in this class after October 23th, 2006.

The winner of the Regional Competition will advance to the National Negotiation Competition held in conjunction with the ABA mid-year meeting on February 10th - 11th, 2007 in Miami, Florida.

Skills†: negotiation, analysis
†Students may not earn more than four (4) credit hours in any one skill area