International Negotiation Competition (INC)

The International Negotiation Competition (INC) is a law student competition in which a team of two law students representing a party/client negotiates either an international transaction or the resolution of an international dispute with an opposing team of two law students.

The final rounds of the INC 2011 are held in Copenhagen from 27 June 2011 to 2 July 2011. In the final rounds 16 teams meet each other and the judges, who are lawyers, business people and leading professors of law from the participating countries.

History: Back in 1998 two American law schools, Creighton University and Pepperdine University, sponsored the first annual International Negotiation Competition. The inaugural competition was hosted by Pepperdine and modelled on the existing Negotiation Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association Law Student Division. Following the success of the Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling Competition, the International Negotiation Competition develops negotiation skills in the context of international transactions and disputes.

The countries represented at the inaugural competition were Australia, Canada, England, and the United States. The Australian team from University of Sydney was the first winner of the travelling plaque presented by the Practicing Law Institute of New York City.

Since then the competition has become truly international-with teams regularly competing from Australia, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, and the USA. 

Web-link: http://jura.ku.dk/inc2011/
Source: Pia Deleuran
Language: English