Palo
Alto,
June 8, 2007
Program
Proceedings
Organisation: Colin
Rule, Arno
R.
Lodder & John Zeleznikow
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is on its way to become a central method of dispute resolution. At this moment already several ODR providers are performing significant dispute resolution: notably SquareTrade, Cybersettle and WIPO domain name arbitration.
One of today’s challenges is the effective use of (new) technology. There is still much to be learnt, including the following topics: useful kinds of interaction; application of advanced technology and AI methods, acceptance by users and by (legal) professionals.
Developing successful ODR is primarily a
multi-disciplinary enterprise. The ODR workshop is a forum for the
exchange of
ideas between people with different backgrounds such as providers of
ODR-services, and researchers in the field of ADR/ODR, law,
argumentation,
negotiation, and AI & Law.
Authors are invited to submit both papers up to
a maximum of 5000 words, or position papers of approximately 500 words.
Full papers will be peer reviewed and
published in workshop proceedings.
Relevant paper topics include but are not
restricted to the following:
- The success and failure factors of ODR;
- Legal aspects of ODR;
- The use of technology (e.g., e-mail, video conferencing, online
environments);
- Discussion of implemented ODR systems;
- Argumentation and ODR;
- Theories on ADR/ODR;
- ODR-projects and application areas: e.g. family-mediation,
neighbourhood disputes;
damages disputes; personal injury claims;
- ODR-protocols;
- Taxonomy of disputes suitable for ODR;
- Interaction between the parties in ODR;
- Design issues;
- Acceptance issues.
Deadline for submission: April 29, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2007
Final papers due: May 21, 2007
Submissions
in PDF (final versions in Word) should be sent to: lodder@cedire.org
Programme committee
Jeremy Barnett, Visiting Chair Law Informatics,
Court 21 at Leeds University, UK
Benjamin Davis, University of Toledo College of
Law, USA
Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany
Ethan Katsh - Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Gregory E. Kersten, Department of Decision
Sciences
and MIS, Concordia University, Canada
Ronald E. Leenes, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, The Netherlands
Arno R. Lodder - Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution, The Netherlands
Laurens Mommers, Law School,
University of
Leiden
Marta Poblet, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona
Colin Rule, ODR at eBay, USA
Thomas Schultz, Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law, University of Geneva
Ernest M. Thiessen - Smartsettle, ICAN Systems, Canada
Mohammed Wahab, Department of Private International Law, Cairo University, Egypt
Douglas N. Walton - Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Winnipeg, Canada
John Zeleznikow, School of Information Systems,
Victoria University, Melbourne
Berry Zondag, Arbitrator’s and Mediator’s Institute of New Zealand