Kudos to the University of Copenhagen (and especially Prof. Laura Nielsen) for organizing the Copenhagen international negotiation competition. Last year the competition simulated a climate change treaty in parallel with the COP15 talks. This year, the teams from OECD and non-OECD law schools have been negotiating segments of a protocol on border measures and access to medicine. Notably, none of the European or North American law schools who participated in the written rounds and in the first two oral rounds made it to the finals, so the final negotiation round, which will be webcast live this evening (15.10, 5pm, Copenhagen time) will be held between simulated delegations from India (Gujarat National Law University), Singapore (NUS), Australia (ANU) and Israel (Hebrew University). The written submissions of the teams are available on the website.
Having coached the Hebrew University team (with my colleague, Gil-Ad Noam) I know who I'd like to see emerge as the best negotiators, but I wonder, more generally: might this be one area in which the world could do worse than have the rules set by a 'green room' that excluded the US and EU?
