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2011-06-29

Students begin international negotiations

The negotiations of the International Negotiation Competition are in full swing at the Bispetorv Annex.

Two of the competing teams
greet each other 

The road to victory in this year's International Negotiation Competition (INC) is coated with seriousness and good arguments. It soon became apparent when the students began the final rounds of the INC yesterday. Each student took a convincing role as a lawyer and representative of his or her client(s).

During the final rounds, the students are given three different cases, all stemming from problems taken from reality-based international negotiations. The students participate in teams of two and each team has assigned a coach. Based on each case, the teams themselves must identify which legal and business disciplines the individual case requires.

The purpose of the negotiations is to train the students’ abilities in professional international negotiation outside the court systems. The team, which carries through the most convincing proceedings for the judges in the competition, ends up as the winner of this year's International Negotiation Competition 2011.

This year's judges
The judges in the final rounds are all experienced negotiators in both a national and an international context.

The judges evaluate the students' efforts and declare the winner on Friday 1 July 2011.

Three of the judges in the competition. From left: Elizabeth Lowe, Lawyer, Ministry of Justice, Legal Directorate, Christine Lund, Assistant lawyer, Nyborg and Rørdam Law Firm, and Henrik Lind, Partner, lawyer, Gorissen Federspiel

Participants
The students in the finals have qualified by winning their home country's national competitions and are thus among the best negotiating law students in the world. The qualified teams are from the following universities:

• Bond University, Australia
• Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
• University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Denmark
• Manchester Metropolitan University, England
• National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India
• The Honorable Society of King's Inns, Ireland
• Osaka University, Japan
• Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Netherlands
• University of Waikato, Te Piringa Faculty of Law, New Zealand
• The Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Northern Ireland
• Interamerican University School of Law, Puerto Rico
• National Research University 'Higher School of Economics', Russia
• University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Handong International Law School, South Korea
• Carlos III University, Spain
• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, USA
• University of Aarhus - School of Law, Denmark
• Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia
• Willamette University College of Law, USA

Participants in the final rounds of the INC 2011 (Click on photo to see large size photo)

Read more about INC:: www.jura.ku.dk/inc2011