The Negotiation Competition focuses on the skills needed to be an effective negotiator. Students participate in mock negotiations and have their work critiqued by peers, faculty, and practitioners. Teams of two are given hypothetical problems, instructed about their client’s needs, and asked to negotiate a satisfactory outcome with another team. As long as they continue to win, participants have the opportunity to compete at three levels: intra-school, regional, and national. At each level, the team pairs work together to solve the problems presented.

The intra-school competition is in the spring and open to all students; the regional competition is in the fall. Students who participate in this competition must attend meetings in the fall semester on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Students may earn one pass/fail credit at each level of competition.