The Law School recently hosted an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE) in partnership with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, with some participants attending in person and others virtually. The unique experiential learning opportunity, designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the highest strategic level, tasked the course’s 70 students, organized into nine teams each representing a different nation, to resolve a challenging international dispute in the South China Sea with diplomatic, informational, military, legal, and economic factors at play. Volunteer mentors assisted throughout the exercise and included former foreign service officers, current and former military officers, law firm partners and associates, and academics. . “This year’s ISCNE was unique in that students were faced with the added challenge of negotiating in different settings, with six teams operating virtually and three in-...