Inter-School Negotiation Practicum
A Unique Experiential Opportunity for Students Nationwide
Since its inception in 2019, more than 4,500 students from 56 law schools have participated in the STCL Inter-School Negotiation Practicum. The practicum is a fully centralized cross-school, month long one-on-one settlement negotiation exercise utilizing actual court documents from a pending federal lawsuit. Participants are paired up with a student from another law school in another city and must negotiate via email, phone, and video over a one-month period. After the exercise, students complete a substantive post-negotiation questionnaire. The Practicum, which draws at least 400 students from 18 schools each semester, is offered twice a year – usually over the entire month of October and March.
We are happy to share that the Practicum was honored as a top scoring submission in the Innovation & Pedagogy category of Bloomberg Law’s Inaugural Law School Innovation Program!
Professors that are interested in registering their class for the spring 2025 semester should email Debra Berman at dberman@stcl.edu.
We are pleased to share some post-negotiation feedback from students who have participated. Read some of their comments here: What Students are Saying
Thank you to the 63 professors from the following law schools that have participated!
Arizona State University | Pace University | University of La Verne |
Campbell University | Penn State University | University of Louisville |
Cardozo University | Pepperdine University | University of Manitoba |
Elon University | South Texas College of Law Houston | University of Maryland |
Fordham University | Southern Illinois University | University of Michigan |
George Washington University | St. John’s University | University of Missouri |
Harvard University | St. Mary’s University | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Lakehead University | Suffolk University | University of North Texas Dallas |
Lincoln Memorial University | Texas A&M University | University of Oregon |
Loyola University Chicago | UC Law San Francisco | University of Saskatchewan |
Marquette University | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | University of San Diego |
Michigan State University | University of California, Berkeley | University of Tennessee |
Mitchell Hamline School of Law | University of Cincinnati | University of Texas |
New Mexico State University | University of Colorado | University of Utah |
New York University | University of Connecticut | Wayne State |
Northern Illinois University | University of Detroit Mercy | West Virginia University |
Ohio Northern University | University of Florida | Western New England University |
Ohio State University | University of Houston |