Since its inception in 2019, almost 2,400 students from 45 law schools have participated in the STCL Inter-School Negotiation Practicum. The Practicum is a fully centralized cross-school, month long one-on-one negotiation exercise utilizing actual court documents from a pending lawsuit. Participants are paired up with a student from another law school in another city (or even country) and must negotiate via email, phone, and video over a one month period. Because lawyers negotiate primarily via email/phone with opposing counsel they do not necessarily know, the purpose of this project is to provide students the opportunity to enhance their skills in an environment that more closely aligns with practice. After the exercise, students complete a substantive post-negotiation questionnaire.
Update for Spring 2023 and beyond: Professors, please note that if you would like for your class to participate, you must make this a required GRADED assignment (beyond just a p/f component of an overall participation grade). For more information about registering for the spring 2023 semester, please email Debra Berman at dberman@stcl.edu.
We are happy to announce that the Practicum was just honored as a top scoring submission in the Innovation & Pedagogy category of Bloomberg Law’s Inaugural Law School Innovation Program!
Thank you to the following 47 law schools that have participated!
Campbell | Pepperdine University | University of Laverne |
Cardozo | South TX College of Law Houston | University of Manitoba |
Chapman University | Southern Illinois University | University of Maryland |
Elon | St. John’s University | University of Michigan |
Fordham University | St. Mary’s University | University of Missouri |
George Washington University | Suffolk University | University of North Texas Dallas |
Harvard University | Texas A&M University | University of Oregon |
Indiana University | UIC John Marshall | University of San Diego |
Lakehead University | UNC Chapel Hill | University of Saskatchewan |
Lincoln Memorial University | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | University of Tennessee |
Marquette University | University of CA Hastings | University of Utah |
Mitchell Hamline | University of Cincinnati | Wayne State |
Northern Illinois University | University of Connecticut | West Virginia University |
Ohio Northern University | University of Detroit | Western New England University |
Pace University | University of Florida | Ohio State University |
Penn State Dickinson | University of Houston | |
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