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245 sec. 002 - Negotiations (Spring 2026)
Instructor: Emily Epstein (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: Remote Instruction
Meeting:
Th 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Location: Internet/Online
From January 15, 2026
To April 23, 2026
Course End: April 23, 2026
Class Number: 33451
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 20
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 20
As of: 03/16 09:45 AM
This course will help you improve your negotiations with clients, partners, associates, paralegals, judges, classmates, professors, friends, and family members. Also, this course will teach you how to listen more effectively, respond to difficult tactics, navigate demographic barriers, identify ethical boundaries, manage strong emotions, represent a client in a negotiation, and deal with complex, multi‐party negotiations. In other words, it will help you improve the kinds of conversations you have every single day.
Students will learn a structured approach to negotiation that can guide the way you measure negotiating success, prepare for a negotiation, conduct a negotiation, and review a negotiation. This particular approach is called "integrative," "principled," or "interests-based" negotiation, and it grew out of the work developed at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Integrative negotiation focuses on maximizing value and strengthening relationships.
Since negotiation is something you learn by doing, we will engage in hands‐on negotiation simulations throughout the course. These simulations are designed to enhance your skills, demonstrate concepts, and provide you with opportunities to experiment with various negotiation techniques. Our inquiry will be grounded in established theories of negotiation, which we will use to analyze the simulated negotiations. As a result, we will move back and forth between theory and practice, applying lessons from theory to our negotiation practice, and drawing lessons from our experience to critique theory. We will examine a variety of contexts and problems that create a need for negotiation and raise questions about what it means to negotiate well.
Please note that this class will meet exclusively online via Zoom. Due to the nature of this class, none of the sessions will be recorded and posted except for accommodation of students with disabilities. Due to the nature of this class, real-time attendance is required (without an alternative way to earn equivalent credit) except in cases of illness or emergency.
**THIS IS A FULLY REMOTE COURSE. AS SUCH, IT COUNTS AS DISTANCE LEARNING UNITS FOR THE NEW YORK BAR. THE NEW YORK BAR DOES NOT ALLOW LLM STUDENTS TO COUNT ANY DISTANCE LEARNING UNITS TOWARD NEW YORK BAR ELIGIBILITY.**
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Emily Epstein Leiderman has taught negotiation skills for over two decades throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. She has conducted hundreds of trainings for a wide range of businesses and non‐profits, including Apple, Autodesk, Activision Blizzard King, Pinterest, Deloitte, KLM-Air France, Genentech, the California State Parks Foundation, the American Diabetes Association, Paul Hastings, Morrison Foerster, and Munger Tolles & Olson. In addition to teaching at Berkeley Law for over a decade, she has served as associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Epstein earned her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, and an amicus brief she wrote was cited by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Requirements Satisfaction:
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Submit teaching evaluations for this course between 13-APR-26 and 28-APR-26
Exam Notes: (T) Final practice trial or arguments
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Simulation Courses
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Books:
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- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
Edition: 2011
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143118756
e-Book Available: unknown
Price: $18.00
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Law-school Bookstore prices are unavailable at this time. - Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143137597
e-Book Available: unknown
Price: 13
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Law-school Bookstore prices are unavailable at this time.