A team of law students from the University of Waikato has secured victory over the University of Canterbury, winning the Australian national negotiation competition in Hobart on 8 July 2016.

The winning team was made up of Zachary Katene, studying a Bachelor of Laws with honours and Bachelor of Management Studies with honours, and Jarom Murphy, in the final year of his law degree.

Waikato University's Faculty of Law fielded three teams in the largest law conference in Australia - the annual July Australian Law Students' Association (ALSA) conference - attended by more than 500 students from Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.