To register: https://cyberspace.muni.cz/programme/special-track-online-dispute-resolution-odr
ODR Special Track
SPECIAL TRACK: Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
Available presentations and instructions how to submit questions or discussion topics in advance (in file “- PLEASE NOTE – DO YOU HAVE A TOPIC FOR ONLINE DISCUSSION RESERVE IT IN ADVANCE!” ) are HERE.
Organized by Masaryk University and PRK Partners law firm
With kind assistance from The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR)
Programme:
Please note that the presentations will be available online as early as in the first week of October. We encourage the participants to prepare interesting questions for the online discussions.
Friday 27 November, 5pm – 9pm CET:
International cooperation in ODR
Chair: Colin Rule (CEO of Mediate.com; USA): Promoting International Cooperation in Online Dispute Resolution
- Alberto Elisavetsky (Founder and President of Odr Latinoamerica, Argentina): State of the art of online dispute resolution in Latin America
- Ayo Kusamotu (Kusamotu & Kusamotu Lawyers, Lagos); Morenike Obi-Farinde (ODRAFRICANETWORK, Nigeria); Ijeoma Ononogbu (Managing Director, Dispute Resolver Consultancy, London, UK): ODR in Africa
- Tsisana Shamlikashvili (President of Institute of Law and Mediation, Russia):
- Ana Maria Maia Goncalves (Instituto de Certificação e Formação dos Mediadores Lusófonos): ODR Standards for Online Mediators
- Online discussion
AI, ethics and ODR
Chair: Ethan Katsh (Director, NCTDR, USA; Leah Wing, Co-Director, NCTDR, USA): The Future of ODR
- Ayelet Sela (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Disputant Self-Determination and Diversity in ODR Interface Design [Ayelet‘s presentation will be run from a recording];
- David Larson (Mitchell Hamline School of Law, USA): ODR Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: We Must Do Better
- Davide Rua Carneiro (Polytechnic of Porto, School of Management and Technology, Portugal): Explainability and Interpretability of AI in ODR
- Michal Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland): Computational Argumentation and ODR
- Anyu Lee (Professor, Sichuan University, China: AI driven ODR and digital security, China’s prospects
- Online discussion
Saturday 28 November, 5pm – 9pm CET:
Lessons learned from online courts
Chair: Pavel Loutocky (Research specialist and lecturer, Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic): The State of Online Courts in Czechia and a Way Forward
- Richard Rogers (CRT Executive Director and Registrar, Canada): Civil Resolution Tribunal: Improving Access to Justice through User focused Design
- a representative from the State Courts of Singapore will be making the presentation: State online civil courts in Singapore
- Vincent Tilman (Head of Internal Affairs of Comeos, Belgium), Axelle Starek (Manager of the Belgian Ombudsman for Retail): A 360° user experience review of a Belgian ODR scheme
- Graham Ross (UK lawyer and accredited Mediator, MD of ODR specialist mediator panel at SeeYouOutofCourt.com and Fellow of NCTDR; Member of the Civil Justice Council’s ODR Advisory Group, UK): How Not To Introduce ODR to the Courts – Lessons from the UK
- Online discussion
What‘s new
- Chittu Nagarajan (CEO of CREK, India): CREK
- Petros Zourdoumis (Founder ODReurope, General Director ADR point, Fellow NCTDR, Member of the Central Mediation Committee of the Ministry of Justice, Greece): ADR4ALL – New smartphone app for resolving consumer disputes
- Orna Rabinovich (Haifa Law Faculty, Israel): ODR and Covid
- Jeffrey Aresty (President and Founder, The InternetBar.Org (IBO), USA); Daniel Rainey (Principal, Holistic Solutions, Inc., Board Member, International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR), USA): ODR and Digital Identity
- Amy J. Schmitz (Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law University of Missouri School of Law Columbia, MO USA): Smart Contract Dispute Resolution
- David Bilinski (Practice Management Adviser (on leave); Law Society of British Columbia, Canada): New Approaches to Dispute Resolution
- Zbynek Loebl (Of Counsel, PRK Partners, Czech Republic): Open ODR